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You can see this in games with very intertwined settings like CofD, Eberron, or Exalted.

That's exactly why I've completely believed in Meat Points, every single media that uses HP treats them as such because it makes total sense. No need for trying to justify why they don't bleed to death from a sword slash, they just have more flesh and blood than the wizard. What Gygax and every...

Variety, If 4e didnt exist i probably would have looked at WotC's design capabilities with an even less favourable eye. I desperately want 5e to be less backward compatible than onednd because there are some fubdamental issues I just do not find palatable in any sense of the word, I want its...

I prefer calling it TradOC because I do still agree that it's very much a descendant of Trad design.

IMO OC-play can be delineated between Positive Space(Powersets, Mechanical Rewards, Setting) and Negative Space(Backstory, PC relations with N/PCs, etc). In fact, for some players the narrative satisfaction part of TradOC can be switched with ludic satisfaction--Playing a pyromancer means...

I think there are also two different starting point but mirroring one another: Narrative and ludic. Making a character concept backwards from ability/power-set, and not necessarily meaning stuff like Pyromancer or Enchanter but something similar to how card games have 'gimmick' decks or certain...

Also going to be posting this reddit thread where the author of that blogpost is talking: And just for ease of use and easier archiving...

From what I've read of this thread so far, something I'm seeing is that games with a lot of setting elements or have settings as a draw seems to be the most likely to be 'good' at being Neo-Trad games. Like 4e and PF2 and CofD all have a lot of setting to play with... but also very malleable(or...