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Okay, seriously -- I literally mentioned the wizard part of that in the text block you quoted. As for specialty priests, yeah I'm not sure why I considered the DL wizards close enough to count but not the DL priests (which honestly show more similarity to their 2e implementations). I'll edit...

Okay, but I hazard it was a rather special case. You were running HP attrition too fast to keep up with through other means, yes? It was make or break for the fight because you were attritioned right to the edge of your reserve/replenishment rate? Obviously any kind of benefit will mean that you...

Let's level-set. This is not 3E Pun-Pun, or Ice Assassins and Demiplanes, or Find City nukes/commoner black holes or other things which, if allowed, end your campaign (or all normality within it). It's not even 3E Hulking Hurler/5E nuclear wizard madness that is easily defeated but still takes...

I'm not even sure NWPs fit as distinctly 2e, as nearly-identical mechanisms showed up in late 1E (OA, WSG, DSG). Great question! The whole push for backwards compatibility means there's very little under the sun that is truly and uniquely 2E AD&D, at least until the Player's Option series...

I do suspect a lot of people want B/X but with paladins and demons and maybe spell disruption or 18/## Strength or 1d8/1d12 (s-m/l) longswords -- heck that's how a lot of us who started with B-BECMI played AD&D BitD quite a bit. As for specialty priests and kits -- I'm surprised there aren't...

Certainly far exceeds mere TTRPGs. Star Wars/Trek isn't what it was when I* discovered them. Comics aren't what they used to be. And the music kids are listening to these days! And so on. Seems to be a truism about life (albeit accelerated by increased rate of technological innovation, plus that...

I always had great sympathy for the devs trying to implement LA, but at the end of the day I always thought it was a flawed mechanic. Being 1 (or 2, or 8) level behind the rest of the group differs in consequence at level 1 than it does at level 13. Likewise, the benefits of (ex.) being size L...

I think this last part is not emphasized enough when people mention that the devs called it overpowered. I don't have the actual quote from them, but the reasonable interpretation is that they thought they had overpowered fireball with regards to AoE spells in general because it was iconic. And...

In the end, just the term 'false dichotomy.' I was going to say more about combat vs. RP, but ran out of time.

I mean, the alternative to bastard sword for situational one-handedness is just the backup one-handed weapon, so I don't know that it's really that munchkiny. Especially if the bastard sword isn't also an optimal choice*. *it wasn't in 3e or 4e, in 2e it depends on whether the DM used the...

Splitting it between D&D and RPGs is rather prescient. I have different goals with D&D vs. other RPGs. D&D is my 'beer and pretzel' game, and I will have a game where the goal is just to play the adventure... or just fart around as a dwarven skald... or just find out how the DM populated their...

And then the zombie virus breaks out... in the werewolf ninja training camp

Note: All of this is D&D specific. In other games I've gone so far as to have characters take up the knapping skill along with wilderness woodcraft, such that in a pinch they can craft stone-headed arrows during long wilderness deployments. As a player, I tend to do so automatically. As a GM...

It will differ for each person. To me personally, perhaps The same basic cleanup of AD&D 2e: everyone uses same xp table, all races can be all classes (no level limits), shift disparate subsystems to more unified mechanics (usually d20), etc. Still retains the basic D&D structure of levels...

PF1 is taking the D&D 3e that we got, and continuing on in that direction (stopping to make a few course-corrections along the way). If you enjoyed the basic premise/design ethos of 3e, but thought it had done one or more things specifically wrong, some other attempt at the same basic conceit...

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That the same basic point could have been made without sounding undeservedly condescending and pointlessly antagonistic. Everyone gets the obvious. Everyone knows the basic facts. If someone is asking why water is wet, it is likely that they are really asking a more nuanced question than the...

So the conversation has moved past this in many ways, but I wanted to come back to it. Regardless of discussions of how things should be, or whether survival play is conducive towards heroic gameplay, I've come to a conclusion on a separate point. And that's that TSR-era A/D&D did a poor job of...

I thought that too, but no conversation with a Hulk comics fan gets past 'his rage-induced strength has no upward boundary!' Lawrence's Mystique 'outfit' certainly looked like it would peel, Romijn's seemed more like it would split like a cut latex glove. Not sure which would be more...

There's a subset of fiction where someone can be 'just that good' that things seem like magic. Anime can have it, but you also see it in stuff like the smoke knights in Girl Genius where they are effectively invisible and can steal/replace-with-something-else your hostage or the weapon you are...