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CharOp is not necessarily about spotlight hogging. It's about seeing what works and exploring the limits of the system, often to build an offbeat character. No one was bringing Pun-Pun to the table. And the people bringing the broken characters generally were "net decking"

Meanwhile if you go by actual play in vaguely skilled hands 4e had in many ways the strongest non-combat game of any D&D edition unless you were into gritty dungeon crawling. "I cast a spell to solve the problem" just uses a button to take you closer to the combat. And 4e has the only set of...

In meaningful ways they are almost the worst at demonstrating their own game. For the past ten years Critical Role have been probably the best in the world at fighting against 5e's mechanics, using a whole lot of GM force, player dramatic skill, and production budget to give a series of intense...

At this point I'm going to say you are talking exclusively about WotC-D&D. As a triviality Comeliness was a seventh stat in the original Unearthed Arcana. More importantly d20 + modifier vs target number only became the core mechanic with 3.0. It was a mechanic before that - but there was also...

To me that it is trying to do how they played D&D as a design goal. There is no one criterion that says "this is" or "this isn't" although the big three are classes, levels, and fantasy adventure. Other strong indicators include six-ish stats that are mostly analogues of the D&D ones (if...

In 4e terms Hope is your encounter resource, Stress your daily. And yes martials get daily abilities; in general the fighter-type ones are round either not taking or even healing hit point damage. The vulnerability is mostly to make burning all your stress scary - and to make stress draining...

I don't think this is too broad. Dungeon World's design goal was to play like D&D did when you were 12 and words like "Dungeon" and "Old School" were all over the initial branding. It was at the very least a love letter.

Just to clarify this Unearthed Arcana is the Wizards of the Coast public playtest area. The two classes being adjusted are not in the core rulebook and are a being adjusted as a response to playtesting to be ready for a future book. The actual errata amounts to a single side and includes...

My mental boundary for D&D variants is somewhere near but probably including Dungeon World.

This is their version of WotC's Unearthed Arcana

For the record this is one everyone I know who likes both games gets in a heartbeat (although "love letter to" is the more common phrasing) and none of those who hated 4e do in the slightest because the game they hated wasn't the one we loved.

And Mercer clearly learned 2e and uses a lot of DM force as you have to with that system. The two other things going on are that Daggerheart doesn't make Critical Role better at their style so much as it helps others into that style, and that they are all getting better as the campaign goes on...

2D12. And one of the smart things they've done there is set the modifiers so an experienced 5e DM can use the same difficulty numbers they'd use for 5e and get the expected results.

Depends on if you count D&D 4e as D&D. I would absolutely describe it as a 4e variant but, come to think of it, the direct overlap to D&D is almost entirely to things that were exclusively 4e, played in the "narrative style" of @pemerton, @EzekielRaiden, and others including myself. Which does...

So for me it's anything in general, media, and right here in meta that I can't read.

And there have been a few recent Delicious In Dungeon style modules. Daggerheart even has Beast Feast as one of its six campaign frames.

Most things we farm don't try to eat us because it's very calorie-inefficient. This doesn't make lion burgers or fried pirhanna taste bad - it's just expensive.

Quick question: Should Daggerheart be considered a variant or adjacent and in the general forum? It's significantly more divergent than 13th Age (I'd say it's 1/3 D&D, 1/4 PbtA, and lots of other stuff) but is class/level based and designed to be accessible from a D&D base/to 5e players. (Given...

Oh, I really don't think Daggerheart can do everything. It's not rules light, it's not "death is cheap", it doesn't support detailed world simulations. It just provides very good support to the theatre kid end of the math nerd/theatre kid D&D dichotomy. And horror is theatre kid stuff.