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I am just starting what I hope will be a long-running Blades in the Dark campaign and read this with interest. Not every player around here that tried it loves BitD, the main issue being that it is too abstract. What I am working on improving is the negotiation before each roll; essentially you...

Are there any character sheets for Blades in the Dark that are significantly different from the original one? One of my players have dyslexia and the standard sheet is very hard for them to read. I think the main problem is the boxes for things like Xp and stress becoming a blur.

Yeah, I tend to forget this. My players are still new to BitD, even tough we began play last summer with some of the crew, most will be brand new and need some guidance. Applying this actually makes it easier, it shifts some of the narrative burden onto the players. This does create a hurdle...

I agree with almost all you say in this port. But I want to expand on one thing. My version of the Astral Plane/Sea is a realm of thoughts and idea. Travel in the Astral is a matter of thought - and your thoughts are based on the mental model you are using. So if your model of the outer planes...

Not arguing against you, just noting that I have the opposite taste, (almost) the only thing I do like about 4E is the cosmology. And this is ok - no-one can tell you what your taste should be like.

It has been seriously claimed in real life that elves are a group in Bohuslän, a region on the border between Norway and Sweden. There is a parish in the area still called Alvhem even today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lfheimr_(region)

What action would people say governs the use of Cannons in Blades int he Dark. I'm starting a swashbuckly campaign, including ships with cannon and small cannon used on land to breach doors and walls. What actions would be used with them? My current answer is that it depends on how you are...

Around Scandinavia and Great Britain there are tales of the people in the hills - in Sweden they are called Tomte, in Norway Nisse, in Britain Hob and Gnome among other things. This is how the gods and spirits of previous belief systems survived into Christian times. All of these could be said...

My cosmology is essentially wish-fulfilling, or expectation-fulfilling, so I have to take the opposite view on this. If those cowpokes believe there are dark elves in the cave, then there will soon be. Not saying you are wrong, just enjoying how different viewpoints can be.

Invisibility's utility depends a lot on how it is read. The way I read it, being Invisible doesn't make opponents lose track of your location - that is the domain of the Hide action. Nor does it let you move around completely unnoticed - tough I do grant advantage on Stealth against vision-based...

I feel 5E is a descendent of 1E because that was my first role-playing game. It scratches much of the nostalgia. Then again there were many things about 1E I didn't like and I feel 5E generally does a better job at those.

I'm reading this thread from back to end, making the order of comments confusing. I beg your indulgence with this. I just wanted to quote from the 5E2014 monster description of archmage.. I like this descriotion, and it very much agrees with you edhel.

This is an interesting viewpoint. I don't have an example about Good vs. Evil here, but I do have an example about Law vs. Chaos. Law and Chaos as defined by Gygax & Co seems to me to be to be the old east coast of the US vs. the old west, ca 1890. Law is state, organization, banks, the army...

Read some medieval religious philosophy and you will see this argument applied to God. An infallible being cannot change because that would mean they at one time was less infallible, which creates a contradiction as divine infallibility is an absolute. God has no free will, as there is always...

Not read all the 45 pages of this thread. I generally see Neutral as the inert force in a society, all the people that would rather be left alone and decide for themselves who they want to care for and how. This makes Muscular Neutrality rather silly, in that it has Neutrality actually going...

Casual players should not be confronted by more than one set of rules. Behind the screen, you can do anything you want.

In the interview, Meals referred to 5E24 as 5.5. I wonder if that's what they called it internally? Externally they have avoided that name like the plague, and even Next got changed. They are really aiming at name continuity. Someone (sorry I am not rewinding and am bad at remembering names)...

I am a part of the Greyhawk community, and it has become more active since the inclusion of the setting in 2024. Not everyone likes the new take on it, but many seem to be seen an opportunity and are making publishable products. There have been very few Greyhawk products before 2024, and they...

Large language model AI makes it trivial to rewrite rules, I wonder if this will impact the legal situation.

This is how TTRPG business has always worked around here. The GM picks the system to run, and over time people buy the books. Initially we can do with the GM's books but soon we want our own.