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Strife, as described, sounds like an overload even for the hardened adventurer who would be assumed to be able to handle ordinary (i.e., for heroes) stress, at least. It's kinda like the old "system shock" idea but related to incomparable stress, magical or other. It also appears related to...

O shucks! I so wanted a Witch Doctor Holiday...

Polish it up a bit and Morrus might be induced to include it as a side-bar in the section. ;)

Ar least Americans, sometimes, aren''t pretending that they're not pretending. ;)

Clarity for the literal minded out there. ;)

As noted, are the effects stackable, like strife after strife after...? Or do they cap? Say as in while enroute to a haven while in strife you are strifed again? ;)

Yep. I remember knowing it all and then at age 30 onward becoming a dummy, too... Oh wait! ;)

Not in the D&D-verse. Perhaps the knock-off "Deadlands"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlands

The "90120 Irregulars"!

The trailer looks enticing; but that's what snippets are intended to do. The proof is in the whole cloth and not its pieces (textile mill comparison intentional...).

My wife and I will toast to you and yours. I've only spent 5 days in Paris, my wife has been there a lot, of course. ;)

Heh. I am approaching the analysis from a system's perspective first and foremost. You can talk of lore when I'm in the dirt. ;) Besides, I did say, "The system should be neutral regarding the inputs of fantastic expression..." thus inferring that systems are either not neutral (worse case)...

Understood. There have been more neutral systems than others, then, in my view. But as you've noted, that's a whole different discussion.

It's all good. Besides, I have been isolated going on six years on a mountain in France in a very small hamlet and have no opportunity to game period, unless it is with my wife. I did meet Jeremy Crawford at Lucca Comics and Games (2015) when he approached to gift a Players HB to me which I...

I respect that, but what I was inferring was that the point, whether answered yes or no, has no standing for game design and its implementation through play. Perhaps I over-worded things, but the intent was to display that systems should be neutral and thus whatever system one uses, given that...

OK. Let's assume I am GOD. For I do not control WotC, nor do I have knowledge of their motivations or inclinations, I have nothing from which to assure myself of what they do is at all comparable to what they might do. But IF they did, they would do it in the same way they do it for all other...

The medium defines the message. 1E was more constrictive than 0E. If I write Fantasy, i.e., express the fantastic possibilities in an imaginative world, and the system declines translation/transliteration of it, then am I in fact engaging in a "Fantasy" Role Playing Game, still?? The system...

No. But it's a game, no? There is an underlying system structure that perforce allows it to be engaged at the RPG level, no matter the system. If, for instance, those returned qualities would differ from system to system by being contracted or limited, then I could emphatically state that...

My last two coppers for this speculative foray. Greyhawk is not too old to be developed for the current and future markets. Perhaps many of its remaining/current adherents are of that opinion (but that is rooted, IMO, in individual proclivities than in common sense marketing and realistic...

In summary, if they cannot completely control something, then F-it. That in a nutshell is what had happened with their reaction to Me and Gary pushing a Greyhawk reboot. And that has routes to breaking past compatibility of OD&D>Basic+1E>2E by creating 3E. The game was theirs, now, and that...