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"Off having afterlife adventure. Hope I don't come back as an evil clone." My genre-savvy superhero character.

I don't pay attention to how being linked to D&D or Pathfinder makes people like something. Hopefully someone else will come along.

Compatibility with a popular system wouldn't get me to support these projects any more than now: I'm not interested in most popular systems, and compatibility with them can turn me off projects as I have to debate whether I want to pay for game mechanics I have no use for. That said, it's much...

"All Dog"

If "unrealistic" is to "story tropes", then "realistic" is to.......I don't know what the latter would be. I have difficulty with explaining my thoughts. I do think science is fun, but I'm very aware of just how much the style of stories I like flagrantly violate actual science and wish to...

This. I care about tropes, not science.

Tradition is important to me because it means everyone gets the D&D jokes. :cool:

I sometimes wonder what the people who take those seriously think about those of us who view them as targets for amusement and historical curiosity.

I'm not sure I want to....

The thing about wizardly magic is that it implies, to me, is that knowing something can give magic in a D&D world. But if we take the rules as physics (because otherwise my argument makes no sense) the average person can't do magic just because they learned a fact. Something weird is going on...

Brand-name cereal. Preferably one that's slightly sweet. In cow milk.

Since I don't necessarily care for there to be a dividing line between fantasy and sci-fi, I'd prefer not to treat them differently.

I don't think either option works for me: having few classes can end up feeling like no classes are needed, while having narrow classes runs the risk of leaving out an option someone may desperately want.

I mean as far as I know to them "druid" only exists in D&D and a completely different word is used to refer to the historical practitioners.

I agree. I'm just not getting the right match between the class and the name "Druid", so I was crowd-sourcing some relplacements. Right now I like "wilder". But I'm sure that isn't the right kind of evocative for others. :)

I have the exact same reaction to many topics that get endlessly discussed of TTRPG sites. But there's also such a thing as UNDERthinking, which the society I live in has become painfully aware we do way too much.

If I were doing it -- and using D&D5e -- I would utilize the proficiency system to create "descriptors" that encompass some aspect about the character and their skills: "smells like an ox", "master of the Run Away school of martial arts", etc. When I want to solve a situation, the player and GM...

Ah, wasn't sure. Thank you.

Though you could also warn people against using a class in a campaign where many of its features won't be utilized. EDIT: I mean I'd normally agree, but recently it sounds like whether a separate ranger class is needed any more needs to be considered.