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The original sin is the link between ability scores and accuracy. As long as that persists (and defenses scale at all) it's always going to be optimal to maximize that number. Ability scores can't be an interesting flavor choice if they're also the value that determines if your action was wasted...

It's they/them pronouns for Erika Ishii, the performer, and then the character is she/her. Everyone on WBN has talked quite a bit about inhabiting "writer brain" as well as "actor brain" and sometimes separately "character brain," so this kind of exploration of character is absolutely something...

Precisely. The strong version of that point is that mechanisms of good OC play are meta-textual to the rules, which I'm not totally sure I believe, but I haven't actually seen mechanisms that achieve the desired results without breaking some other part of the experience. I have a theory that...

For sure it is. I think the big thing that makes it look any different there is just the caliber of performers. I think they're absolutely playing in the space you call out in your earlier example with our two estranged brothers, it's just that the boundaries of that space are much bigger, due...

My post is a reading of the conflict, not a disputation of @innerdude's report. Obviously, I have no special insight into either party. Unless you're describing a game that accretes progression strictly to the player but not the character I'm not sure that actually much matters. It would be...

I think that reads a lot more like "I don't like the character motivations my player picked, they don't produce a loop I'm interested in." The thing I was pointing out is that any game with progression will always encourage players to assign "get better stuff/at stuff" as a character motivation...

I think it's worth drilling in on this, because I think it's generally too reductive to cut the player motivation down to just "get better stuff." Stuff, progression, all that is nearly always in service to other goals. Personal power is directly correlated with agency; better stuff is very...

We'd have to fight about a definition of "agency" again to settle that question. "Tourism" carries a strong implication players don't have any; regardless of their prompts/actions they'd get the same exposition.

Tiny little thing I've spotted, the Esper/Fighter first feat provides proficiency in "Intuition" which I'm pretty sure is meant to be Insight. Very exciting though, this has hit at exactly the time I have characters considering mixed class builds.

I don't want to touch the Nar point, but I'm unpersuaded this is a necessary feature of a Gamist approach. I think it's perfectly possible to finesse either or both the mechanics or characterization to align the incentives of a player with the incentives of their character, thus that both make...

If you actually want that loop (and I'd argue it's better as a rare spice than a consistent thing) what you want us an item with traits that are empowered by a ritual, or a material that can be forged into a magic item, to delay the reward until they get back to town/finish the quest/have a day...

That's another consistent problem in RPGs though. Scenario and rules design are rarely clearly separated and called out. If anything, this has gotten more muddled in the 5e era. It would be pretty normal for a GM to come up with say a custom skill challenge ruleset for a set piece encounter on a...

If you're attached to Rincewind, you certainly could, but I think it's completely reasonable to pick up a different thread. Really, you're already ready the two books that are most different structurally than the rest of the series, so it doesn't much matter now. Pratchett was still mostly doing...

Could you just steal the Druid Wildshape AC progression? Maybe also the temporary hit points as well. Say, give warlocks (or maybe even the familiar itself) a Prof/short rest gain 1d4*Prof temporary hit points bonus action.

I've found if you go through the effort to set up a seltzer fountain in your house, you'll eventually make your way through any syrup or shrub or other flavoring concoction in homemade soda form.

It might be best to simply skip around and see if any synopsis appeals to you (there is really no strong need to read Discworld books in any particular order), though I do agree that Guards! Guards! is really the best starting point, and if you don't like that, you probably won't care for any of...

I'm trying out a new round of shrubs, my last attempts were pretty popular with guests. They're a little sweet for me, but people seem to like something a little more conventionally soda-like to try with the seltzer tap. On the left we have a blueberry pomegranate in the little bottles and a...

Only because it's modestly relevant to my campaign....is esper/fighter in the cards? :)

I think you could use more clarification about precisely what should prompt a Value test in the first place. Right now it's largely entirely up to the GM, with some potential input from the player. I think you want more clarity around frequency, the scale of an event that should require value...