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I'll grant my blessing. Just as long as he doesn't toss dwarves.

I'd hope that a new edition would make your homebrewing work easier instead of harder! Yes, there's a better system. Maybe even an objectively better system. Which one fills that gap for you? I can't say. But if homebrewing a game becomes too much work (or "work" at all), it's time to...

Well, on the topic of GM-designed monsters (are we assuming the game designers know how to do it properly?), there is no "too late" because the GM decides what the monster does. @Professor Murder's assertion that calibration (of monster danger to PC abilities) is needed applies only at...

This might be an important distinction, because 6e goes a bit further in codifying and interweaving rules. Which makes pulling rules out more difficult. 5e magic isn't Vancian. There's definitely a d20 mechanism, though. With what are you expecting to be "relatively compatible?"...

By running away? (Bravely, of course.)

This isn't the side. This is the main course. If making monsters is easy, I'll do it myself. If it's a PITA, give me a manual of monsters. Art vs. science. Simulation vs. narrative. I leave the answers to the quoted questions to those who feel a need to optimize their mechanics.

No thanks. That's a little close to home.

Who's doing this relegating? WotC? If your opponent uses a logical fallacy, you use Wisdom to detect it. To use your own, Intelligence to assemble one. Then seal the deal with a Charisma check to sound like the good guy when you deliver. It is what your D&D version says it is. But sure, a...

RIP democracy. You were always good . . . in theory.

They canceled that with the movie plans. Apparently pinball is how they're gonna go full Star Wars.

What if XP awards were determined by HP loss? If you don't lose any HP, were you really in any danger?

Wait... they took darkvision from dwarves?

It's not a game until you have rules, so in addition to Use What Works and Fit the Rules I'd consider something like Why Do You Need the Rules? If someone goes into game design thinking "I really want to have four saves instead of three. Or six," there are a ton of Whys involved. Why do you...

That's odd. I did the same thing for Modos 2 and it just gave me this: "Perfect organism."

Rolls to raise player anxiety are a thing. It's a point against rolling in the open, too. PC-anxiety is less affected by seeing low numbers come up. Per Skyscraper's following quote, a goblin leaving without a trace is just a minigame for the GM. It's the same as the GM announcing, "ha...

Virgin blood seems like it would be a good choice. But I really like "forged without hands." How better to make psionic items than to use only one's mind? Anyway, everyone knows that the best magic items must be completed on the winter solstice.

Okay, a goblin sees the heroes and then sneaks away to summon reinforcements. As soon as you roll to see how stealthy the goblin is, you're more or less telling the PCs that there's something there that concerns them. They know there's something to find, so they might as well find something...

Not always. Sometimes people need a nudge to be able to make a decision. Fun fact: there's no need to hide stealth rolls for NPCs. The result of the roll determines how much sneaking the NPCs did, not whether the PCs noticed them. If it's possible that the PCs never notice the NPCs, you're...

If I were your GM, you'd feel like you achieved something either way, because you'd never know that the goalposts moved. This doesn't quite tie directly to fudging dice though, because a bad dice fudger (who doesn't roll in the open) can nonverbally convey that there's some fudging going on...

Frickin' Matt Colville. Just when I want to hate him for setting up fake die rolls, he goes and spouts some wisdom like, "that's basically what a GM's job is. Lying to the players." There's truth here. A GM's job, amongst other things, is deciding what happened. If you know what happened...