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Easily the best thing about Level Up IMO is the cool non-combat stuff they give to the martial classes

hehe... :D

In Level Up, all of the character classes were given features that covered all three pillars of gameplay- Combat, Social Interaction and...

Not quite, Push Yourself now comprises the old mechanic (before a roll for certain bonuses); and what was once Resistance (Pushing...

This is what we refer to in debating as “moving the goalposts.” You said a knight was a good example of a fighter in heavy armor who...

I mean, we're playing games. If people want to say "rules are icky" I'm gonna call it silly. Especially knowing that you like Level Up...

When I think of interesting ways that games have looked at “how do we model strength in and out of combat” I point at stuff like Dungeon...

You mean like Ned or Robb Stark, or John Snow; all of whom have multiple skills, are well-learned, persuasive, and can survive in the...

Oh, ninja’d by 18 minutes lol

This is a terrible example of somebody who’s only good at fighting. A knight is generally some form of landed nobility, with education...

Oh that’s another great point: games with more enumerated social mechanics often take pains to present ways in which varied characters...

I'm not an actor, and no one whom I play with is a thespian, voice actor or other sort of performer. But social resolution mechanics...

A fiendish cliff or a steep demon?

Has this thread really spent like 10 pages arguing that there are/aren't genuinely a numerically crap ton more players/"fans" of D&D...

Yeah, the suggestion that the damage/hit point systems is just an afterthought - that beating a Pit Fiend in combat is just a modest...