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GURPS has Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Health. Virtually all GURPS magic is based on Intelligence. Some variants allow you to use Will instead, which is a derived secondary value. So that's probably what I would do.

Fabula Ultima. Champsions Now. Vampire: The Masquerade. Discworld. Those are all things I would be comfortable calling neotrad. No version of D&D. If D&D is neotrad, then everything is.

Paper has been permanently more expensive since the early 2000s, because of drought, economics shifts, and changes to the availability of trees.

Sure, I've played Oops! All Humans games.

There is always room for people still finding their way.

My players were talking the lair of an adult blue dragon. They entered the humongous main chamber, and... no dragon. They started to investigate the dragon's hoard when one of the players got this look on their face and said, "Wait a minute..." And they narrowly escaped a total ambush by a...

My general preference is for a trad gaming style, with some intrusions from the players as far as elements pertaining mainly to them. So, some slightly meta abilities are okay with me.

That's a euphemism. I think the game in question was the original Neverwinter Nights.

I played one of the 3e era computer games, and made a wizard with one fighter level, and it was absolutely playing the game on easy mode. He was like a mediocre fighter that, when cornered, would simply incinerate every other mamajama in the room. This was before the Eldritch Knight was even a...

I would probably go the other way. Morgan le Fay is a sorceress and a drama llama; she could totally just wear a chainmail bikini and I accept that as something she might do. But Red Sonja is a fierce warrior, and in her original depiction was wearing a mail hauberk. The scale mail bikini was an...

Say what you will about the batleth, at least, it has the combat readiness of a weaponized coffee table.

I mean, Michelle Rodriguez is still conventionally beautiful on many if not most markers. But she's a muscular and brawny woman with a strong face, and even by Hollywood (male) warrior standards Holga isn't depicted in a particularly glamorous way.

Don't forget the lamas. So many lamas.

I, too, wish to journey to a rock. What could be more glorious?

The 3e Forgotten Realms guides said everyone needs to have a deity, or they get sucked into the wall. All clerics, druids, and paladins had deities. But AFAIK that's the only setting in the only edition that ever strictly required it.

Saying anyone could be a paladin just by swearing something is like saying anyone could be a barbarian by putting on fur shorts and working out. Paladins are exceptional. They don't just decide to be paladins. They have to swear a meaningful oath with sincerity, that reflects something of a...

So where do the gods get their power? Rather than clerics needing deities, what if it's deities that actually need clerics to get their powers?

It's not just because. It's because they live in a universe where swearing an oath is something the universe pays attention to. That's how you get curses, ghosts, revenants, and ... paladins.

If miracles can do anything, and all you need to do is believe in yourself, why do we need fighters? Heck, why do we need farmers, why not just pray for food?

I think it's great if your origin or species or whatever you call it is mostly for background. On the other hand, I would want some traits available for things like having a protective shell, or being able to see in the dark. The gripping hand is, those things don't really, truly have to tied to...