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Bu..it's SR1. I mean....it was a glorious dumpster fire of elves, dragons, cyberware and SMGs but it was still a proper dumpster fire. I don't know anyone who played SR1 that didn't wind up making flow charts or guides on how to play the game. SR2 and later were playable games with...

The links work for me on android/chrome so...shrug. You mention fireball. It's a prime example of how you can't look at each rule in a vacuum, you have to look in context. 1e had different ranges indoor/outdoor, saves were completely different and fireball was a volume of like 33x 10ft cubes...

The post you quoted was a comparison of 20th level casters. My initial comparison post covered how 5e has only 1 spell slot at 7-9. I have always been discussing "losing your one bbeg killer" spell. My position has been consistent.

Let's look by spell level. My books have disintegrated but this is from a Google search: .....1e.5e 6th 4 2 7th 3 2 8th 3 1 9th 2 1 Yeah, that looks like multiples. 2-3x as many spells at those levels.

1e and 2e also had several times more spell slots. They were unreliable cannons with lots of ammo while 5e are highly reliable casters with a small magazine. Earlier editions: 20th level caster in melee casts meteor swarm, fighter interrupts spell. Caster moves behind meat shields, casts...

This isn't explicitly a PC/NPC problem. It's a relative power between PC classes, which are often used as NPCs so it masquerades as a PC/NPC issue. But it's not. it doesn't really matter for NPCs. Because lets be clear, NPCs have infinite power any time a GM wants. "Oh, the bbeg caster...

Here are the basic ethos of other magic systems, which mostly fit your "no slots/no points" approach. Shadowrun : you permanently learn a spell and casting it causes damage to the caster proportionate to the spell power BUT the caster can "save" vs casting damage. Some magic items increase...

My thinking is non-casters need a way to mess with caster AND casters need to not lose their one "BBEG killer" for the day. That could mean that disrupting a spell doesn't lose the slot or that it does lose the slot but you have more slots. I would go with the former over the latter as more...

So just a recent example from my last game session. I have a 15th level 5e full caster (lore bard) and we are clearing out an evil temple. There have been 10 battles as we have moved through the temple at speed and due to thr construction and background noise it is hard for the NPCs to call...

This is a lot of history and comparative analysis. Tl:dr the editions use an array of different mechanics for balance that cannot be evaluated individually, you must consider the whole of the system. As a gorgnard who played a lot of ADD, 2e, 3e and 5e I can tell you confidently that through...

If I read your question as "why has d&d stayed the big dog and not been supplanted by something else" In part it is the "period" supported by the game. Almost no one has a visceral opinion on how pseudo-medieval (x) works. Whether that's how much a loaf of bread would cost relative to wages...

You know you could save time by rolling in advance for each minion. Roll until they fail and record how many times they survived, adding one. You could call it, I dunno, "health protected" on the sheet. "HP" for short.

I will preface this by saying I wasn't a 4e fan but not because I thought it was a bad game. I thought it was a well executed set of mechanics that were too far from what our groups expected from the d&d brand. Things I really liked: monster classifications were an excellent tool for teaching...

While I know it's a facetious/sarcastic question, it is worth thinking about the impact of Rome on the broad stroke of history and gaming assumptions. So the short answer is they created Europe, particularly western Europe, as you know it. Therefore Rome is baked into everything D&D is based...

I use it from time to time. Underwater it does well at creating a cloud of "squid ink" to hide behind that you can shoot out of safely for quite a while (well, several rounds). Shrubs/bushes/grasses work for a round or two before the lack of movement becomes noticeable. A boulder quickly...

GURPS: you can run anything.......but probably never will.

Twilight 2000: all the dice of shadowrun plus the depression of a WoD game!

Cyberpunk: isn't that a genre?

Yes, you're right. Sinclair is who I was thinking about. Survivors, episode 11. Garibaldi is accused of setting a bomb during a presidential visit. The head of the presidential security takes Garibaldi alone to a possible bomb location.

I'm rewatching B5 on Roku now. Sheridan....well, he's not better the 2nd time around. Knowing how messed up he was I'm impressed with his ability to keep it together, even if I don't like it. My unpopular opinion is that B5s episodes suffer for making all in service to the plot. They...