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Only if combat is the only thing that needs rules, a big part of my transition to PF2e, was how excited I was for more robust exploration and downtime stuff. One experience I had in my 4e days, and then continued into 5e (but with much worse combat, so it became egregious) was that our dungeons...

Coming back to this, we're really enjoying Vampire the Requiem now, but humorously I've now seen a player roll 11 dice firsthand and not roll a single success, so now I see what you mean.

Actually I'd even go a step further, the systems themselves perform differently in different hands-- the writer's room in DND tends to come in when the players decide to make a particular plot happen and wants to make sure the sequence of events can't be accidentally de-railed, which you can...

Speaking from experience, its because with the way many of the systems contained within the etc (if not AW itself) are still designed to incentivize a given mechanical expression, in Masks if my character has a high danger score, that functions as a natural incentive to use the move where I roll...

Welcome to the party, the new core works more or less perfectly with the existing monsters, Treat Wounds is laid out as a skill action for Medicine, Battle Medicine is a Skill Feat, and Spells are spells-- so that part might not have changed unless there's something different. Crafting is...

Specifically, instead of having an 18 strength that produces a +4 modifier, its a 4 strength, is what they did.

That part has not changed in any way at all, so it's probably not for you.

Here's something nice-- the interact action in the book now has an option for one-action 'swap' of an item, previously the only way to do this was to drop whatever you were holding on the ground and pull out something else for an action, switch hitting builds are gonna be pretty happy with that one.

The key thing is that the line appears under a subheading that pertains only to damage taken while dying, rather than damage that reduces you to 0 hp, which catches people up that it's the heading that enforces what they're talking about.

I don't disagree but I see the number of viable builds and the power differences at work, as more of a commentary on the system that the Stormwind Fallacy is orthagonal to because at the end of the day, you CAN roleplay the one viable build just fine and in a variety of ways, its the meta being...

I think your phrasing of the claim is fine, but This is actually a statement that I can agree with, build selection precedes the act of roleplaying, loyalty to the first impulse of "my concept is going to be X" is not a part of roleplaying, roleplaying is the portrayal of the character after...

I think I'd say that yeah Roleplayability = The ability for someone to roleplay this concept. Appeal = Your desire to roleplay this concept. Optimizing = The spectrum of how strong you make your character, in terms of the choices available. It would be weird to me to call your buddy's...

Right, for me that comes out to a preference for balanced games where most options are viable and power differentials are smaller, I would say that every character IS roleplayable though, and that largely underlies why the SF is actually a fallacy in the first place. Any character that isn't...

Huh, I wouldn't think of that as an example because both the optimized and suboptimized character generated can be 'roleplayed' as a verb, equally well, it's just a matter of which concepts the player will actually want to choose to play. Similarly, I consider the distinction between characters...

Thinking about it, some of it may actually be that we're trying to actually get past some of these things-- codifying the Oberoni fallacy telegraphs that deploying the thing it labels is a bad thing and that it's badness is settled because otherwise we wouldn't be raising it as a flag instead of...

I'd actually push back, in the sense that its not so much a conflict between the two as to whether the individual actually cares about both. Most builds in most games can be roleplayed, especially since the degree to which those mechanical elements define the character, and what they mean are...

So, mark my username, because it represents something that is very important to me-- and that's the role player-driven exploration plays in shaping and defining their own experience. In the original legend of zelda the Magic Sword (or Magical Sword) is the strongest weapon in the game but unlike...

I'm probably late to the party and I wasn't following it too closely, but they were most recently in hotwater for some repeat offenses of using photographs of native activists without their permission and not only did it happen, it then also happened in another book way after they were called...

I'm going to point out something very important: I do not argue to convince the person I am directly responding to, I argue to convince whoever the voluntary audience of the argument happens to consist of-- that can include the person who my arguments are framed as a response to, but I never...

I see it more as an eternal september, where we've just been in a long period with a continually renewing set of new players, along with the standard inertia of switching systems socially.