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Ah, I like that we've found the magic third thing that "rising star" Gina Carano was "cancelled" for, which kind of shows how dumb this whole tangent was in the first place. It can all basically be summed in one tweet: I think there is actually a decent historical example of what people would...

It's a neat idea, but the inherent problems with systems of organization is that there will always be things that don't fit cleanly into your system, or arguments about where to place 'em. It's a taste thing and I see both sides of the argument on the matter.

Oh, I know. It's not like this is on the back cover or something. The hand-wringing on the topic is utterly inane. People just can't handle any sort of recognition of this stuff.

I mean, they have to read a lot of things before moving to the US, so this really doesn't help your comparison, but it's bad on its own: moving to a country isn't "content", hence no "content warning". I dunno, I feel like whinging about a disclaimer is way more annoying and unnecessary here...

Hookay. So. There's a rather long history of debate around where something like "Cure Light Wounds" goes when it comes to schools. Back in 1E & 2E, it was Necromantic, under the assumption that it was dealt with life and death (or so I always heard). That got changed in 3E to Conjuration, from...

It hasn't been mentioned, but there are technically four core books: Player Core 1, GM Core, Monster Core, and Player Core 2, which releases at the end of the month (but I'm eagerly waiting on my book to ship in the next day or so so I can get access to the PDF). I suppose you don't need Player...

Golarion seems really disparate and disconnected, but the lore is incredibly interconnected as to how different regions and states developed. For all their thematic differences, there was some real work done on the back end to connected the areas around it with a sort of cohesive regional...

Yeah, but that stuff isn't stopped by an adversarial GM, it's encouraged: when you are fighting against someone who has power over the story, you look for anything you can get. When you get away from people feeling like they need to scrap every advantage for every thing because the GM is going...

It can be, depending on how you go about it. It also depends on what you mean by "get away with something", which often to me is the players cleverly planning in a way the GM didn't expect. To me, the idea of "getting away with something" is very much a viewpoint of adversarial GMs who feel like...

You're not wrong. I get removing Spell Schools and on one hand, I do kind of like it? We don't need to try and create specific wizarding schools based around these rather controversial and often forced ideas of "schools" that always have weird additions or exclusions (Hellooooooo, Cure...

There are a few (I don't know how many) that specifically key off of the schools. For example, Sepulchral Sublimation basically lets you kill a minion and then you can cast a Necromancy spell equal to half the minion's level without wasting a slot. Cool feat with cool flavor (almost a villain...

I think we should say that "creating challenge" ≠ "adversarial". Creating something your players must overcome doesn't mean that you are playing against them, nor that you are actively trying to thwart them: you are not in competition with them, you're just building something for them to go...

I have Book of the Dead and it's okay but I kind of got it for the rules completionist in me? I think it's largely okay when it comes to the revision, though there are still a few things that reference using "necromancy spells", which is obviously not going to fly in a school-less world. It's...

Yeah, I always have to tell people "Look, if you have a cool plan, give me the details so I can give you an honest answer about how viable it is so you don't start building an entire gigantic gambit on a bad assumption". It takes time, but yeah.

I've had adversarial play burn so many people that I have to basically declare that I'm not here to win, I'm here to collaborate and facilitate. So please tell me what the hell you want to do so I don't have you working off a bunch of bad assumptions because you feel like I'm going to try and...

Maybe it's just a -1, or maybe the GM decides that in this case it's not worth giving a penalty. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here. Sure, but what's the problem with this? They're not exactly ultra-specific, and just because one is leveled doesn't necessarily make it bad. Like...

It already does, it just doesn't give a set out scale. You can temper things to the situation as you like. Remember that we're already talking about a system where it doesn't ask you to add modifiers together, it simply says "You take the worst modifier of these three aspects and go" so creating...

"modified by any circumstances the GM determines" That might seem vague, but there are a bunch of things you could give guidance on like relative positioning of people (should people further away be harder to intimidate?), situational aspects (they have more people than we do, they have...

Yeah, it happens. We always pay for it the one time we do it, don't we? But I'm glad you at least went back and see the full situation now. :) (y)