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I've heard complains about marks, because they are videogamey, not because they were fiddly. Of course, the way marks worked was a lot less videoamey than they usually work in videogames, where you just have some abstract "aggro" stat and for some reason, your fighter damage produces more aggro...

When did they turn Magic Missile from a useful ranged basic attack into that auto-hit power that no one needed? That was kinda bad. And I agree with concerns that the idea of removing Dailies from some classes also meant that suddenly the number of encounters per day suddenly altered the...

ee en world. My memories of the early EN World days are hazy, and I am not sure who "owned" EN World when i started, but I think Eric Noah was still listed somewhere in relation to the site's name, and so it was kinda obvious that the EN are initials to be pronounced individually.

A concept I used with in my Star Wars homebrew was something called "Affinity". The goal was to make characters better at a skill, but still keep the top value range close, so you even values that challenge experts can be tried for non-experts. Also, I liked to make "easy" routine tasks notably...

A shell world doesn't really sound like somethin that occurs "naturally", so I think some magic or unusual non-realistic physics are bound to exist - maybe there simply are no asteroids like that in this universe, or something that protects the world - maybe the Gods, or some other, more alien...

Well, why don't people learn to read and write or do maths? Why do people not learn how to wield heavy armor and longswords? I figure often it is the lack of opportunity. They just don't have access to the education. Or does in your game mean learning to speak or read and write that you...

Absolute no idea about how the game plays, but some ideas: As pointed out, all the ill-suited ones are basically about the action economy in combat. Wasting actions in turn means the enemy can do more bad things to you because you didn't use your action to prevent him from doing so. Outside of...

I think overall prefer less skills, though would still like it if there was a way to specialize (or anti-specialize) further when needed. Too many skills can cause you miss something that would be important to a character concept. But as others pointed out - sometimes you might want to declare...

People to help him in the writer's room - maybe someone like Ira Behr or Ron Moore? But I am not sure they'd be available, I think they have their own projects. But maybe they can recommend people..

8+INIT skill points per level for the Rogue! But to need something to ween you off... Just look at the the original 3.0 D&D Fighter skill list and skill points per level. :) Or look at a CR 15 Dragon stat block and then look at his sorceror level, the PHB's sorcerer class per level description...

Dwarf and Elf as class. Okay, not quite like that. But I really liked the idea of a D&D starter box that presents the Dwarf and Elf as classes - and when you get the full rules, you understand that the Dwarf is really a Dwarven Battlerage Fighter and the Elf an Elven Wizard specialized in...

I am not familiar enough with twitch and its offerings (even though I have an account, to which I changed my password now, and used them for some streams) to really put things into relation to each other. But Critical Role seems at least to involve a bigger production crew and all, so that...

Not sure why we get on to this particular Star Trek alumni, but considering who played Star Trek's Chekov in the Kelvin Timeline... It should obviously be Anton Yelchin. :.-( He even died way too early, fits right into a B5 cast. Mustrum "Anton's fate always makes me particular sad - or angry...

I think Favored Enemy and Favored Terrain are interesting ideas, but there is one problem: The choice of terrain and enemy is a build choice. If you don't end up fighting that enemy or terrain, it's not so useful. Two options: Studying certain terrains and enemies grants you generic benefits...

I guess when it comes to stats, I think it's kinda boring if you know that your highest stat will be the most important one for your character class/build, the second-highest the second-most important and so on. What if instead you had a rule like: Okay, your primary ability score starts with...

In my experience, when you have a thread going on over many pages with only few participants and the two most active ones have opposing views and quote each other paragraph by sentence, if not sentence by sentence, you are far past the point you're convincing the people that already have an...

Though there is one problem with that: What if I chose to pick a Ranger because I really want to do this wilderness adventure stuff and be good at it? But if it turns into an after-thought after a few levels... I might feel like my character's niche is irrelevant. I don't know if there is a...

So, what's on your fighter's spell list so he can go toe to toe with dragons and demons?

I think I played such a system at some point. But I could be misremembering it, and it has been over 10 years by now. I think it was Space Gothic. It was from a German RPG company and I don't think it's around anymore, at least not actively so. ... Just looked it up, it's available for download...

Healing Surges were not just about the "daily pacing". There was a second, important part of it, which was related to ehaling surges and healing triggers and was about creating tension during a combat. Someone pointed out that the effective hit points characters had during the day was not just...