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When the context is you trying to downplay what the book has to say, when said book is recognized by game designers, amateur and professional, as having the right of things? As I said, there's better ways to disagree than to just dismiss, via a wishy washy attempt to reframe it, a widely...

All this scruff about Gnomes but I still see Nome representation is still woefully inadequate. Tsk tsk 😔

Its from Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design by Ernesr Adams and Joris Dormans. A little old, and it is aimed at video game people, but it teaches a way of looking at games that abstracts them into their pure mechanics so you can understand what they do and then go on to manipulate them. It...

Mechanically speaking, RPGs revolve around playstyle reinforcement: This doesn't just apply to classical XP and level up systems though; the improv game thats inherent to all RPGs works in the same way, just for character narratives rather than character mechanics. (Not that you can't get...

Let go of the obsession with narrative and story.

This is why Intelligence always ends up overpowered.

Exactly. And the sad part is, WOTC had good ideas for it in the No-Spells Ranger. Poultices were simplistic but that could have easily translated into something more substantive. Course, everybody and their mother called that class overpowered, as though it still wasn't dwarfed by the sheer...

Or perhaps I'm just not easily convinced, especially when one is deliberately refusing to have a conversation. It surely does occur to you that may be I actually like discussing these things and would rather see people try harder rather than circling the drain just reiterating the same points...

You should check yourself. I match the tone of people I speak to, which is a flaw I admit. I even do it in real life and it makes the fact that I mostly worked customer service really damn hard. But ultimately, I'm never the one whose bringing it first. (Most of the time anyway. Not like I've...

Yet, you seem very keen on trying to squash the view point instead of, I don't know, ignoring it. Do you expect someone to change their mind when your only substantive response to them has been to shut up?

It is fascinating how nobody really wants to acknowledge that may be how 5e does things is bad and is part and parcel to why this topic even exists. If you want to talk about justifying the Ranger, you can't stick your fingers in your ears and refuse to address how 5e works and how that makes...

I mean yeah, thanks for proving the point.

I've already highlighted twice that how DND defines magic is stupid and constantly complained about. You're not making some revelatory point here. Did I say that? Was I being vague in what I thought was a straightforward and unambiguous statement? Rhetorical questions, obviously, don't start...

The joke was in reference to Hobbits, given I was previously talking about them being entirely ignorant to what was or wasn't magic. And what I and the other person were discussing is what happened in Lord of the Rings. Yes, he wrote Aragorn saying he was doing those things. He also wrote...

Asimov's Fantasy stories weren't sci-fi pretending to be fantasy, however, so one has to take that quote with a grain of salt. He was talking about the dynamics of pushing sci-fi beyond the near future or super realistic.

The point, as its not being made clear enough, is that you fundamentally limit where you can go when you insist on basing whats mundane or not on the real world. One of my personal ideas for a Ranger capability is sending messages on the wind. Sure, that's an impossible magic thing in the real...