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I think you need to actively append /s nowadays for people to not misunderstand you.

They don't want you to be able to lift attractively formatted rules content from a PDF. They want you to pay for D&D Beyond locked-in proprietary format. The best 5E rulebook I've ever seen was the pre-release playtest PDF, since someone went through the trouble of thoroughly hyperindexing it...

The OP stated "They have indicated there are two games they'd like to make next, and that they would differ in tone and style than their past games" which would suggest neither of the two new games are in the same style and tone as Divinity: Original Sin. Since the linked article only refers to...

You literally posted a link claiming their next game would be different from BG3. Not any other of their past games. I read Larian's decision to mean they're fed up by the 5th Edition mechanics. They want a much more unrestrained feel. I wouldn't be surprised if they went back to make DOS3...

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I wonder how many times this thread has been resurrected.

This is far too inflexible. Don't assume the answer us always the same character/ class. Some GMs make the reasonable assumption every PC contributes equally and rolls a due to randomly select the vict... target. If one PC has done something to draw attention to themselves, a GM is likely to...

Yes. Beating your previous edition is not an accomplishment. Not doing so is a disaster.

Thank you!

Well, most games fail at both, so... ;) PF2 is incredibly tied down. Another way of putting it is that it sacrifices everything at the altar of balance. Which I am impressed you could see after only looking at it "very briefly". Most people would be dazzled by the huge (insanely huge, in...

I agree with the "give sorcerers something unique to do"; I vehemently disagree with the "take metamagic away from wizards". Wizard is the definite class that should be able to tweak and modify spells. Not on the spot, but home in the lab. Don't try to call that "salvaging" something, as if...

Luckily I said "arbitrary restrictions". It was somebody else that read that to mean "x/Day". In video games it often manifests as "cooldown periods", mostly because the computer is great at counting and keeping track of lots of small things. Either way, the problem is that a hero "should" be...

I was using the term because I thought it would be more clear than using... what? "D&D-gamey"?

I would strongly caution against Pathfinder 2. It is a very different game and engine than 3.0/3.5/PF1. Completely incompatible. Not only stats and numbers, but the entire rhythm and flow of adventures is different. Much like 4E D&D, a PF2 adventure is immediately recognizable as such, and you...

PF1 is to 3.5 what 3.5 was to 3.0. In both cases, some genuine rules upgrades are bundled together with a large amount of two things: a) changes for changes sake b) pure power upgrades Get PF1 for the supplements and not to have to do conversions. Which us exactly the same reason anyone would...

DCC and OAR, nice. Did they scrap their plans for 5E?

I mean, the way I see thing thing working is by being open and honest about why the system is used. As part of the unstated social contract or "Gentlemen's agreement" that lies beneath EVERY ttrpg session. I can absolutely see this working if the DM (and the rules themselves) are upfront with...

Right? Right? I mean, can you? Either you can or you can't. Man, I don't get the notion to reduce the GM to some predictable outcome generator. I can't shake the suspicion this is the solution to having had a bad experience with a bad GM. The solution, obviously, is not to try to rein the...

You will end up breaking those rules sooner or later, trust me. There's always a scenario that works much cooler, or works at all, when you make an exception from rigid meta rules. And I avoid rules that require inconsistency. I would hate describing such rules as wonderful or exciting given...

On point.