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I don't mind complex mechanics necessarily... so long as they don't interfere with the story of the character I want to portray. Complex mechanics that reduce options in order to "be complex" to me are a complete waste. For instance, an example at the most baseline level: D&D has multiple...

And people wonder why I have so much disdain for game mechanics in roleplaying games. :D

All I know is that when I read down the multiple giant lists of Feats at the d20PFSRD... on probably 95% of them I see what they do and think "Geez... this thing is ass! Why would anyone ever take this stupid thing, and who thought it was worth designing it?" LOL! Pathfinder Feats-- take an...

This is a really good point, and one that facilitates the rectification of the "Spellcaster PCs get to do all the cool stuff while warrior PCs don't do anything" complaints we always hear people on about. A lot of the people have this mindset that it's only the PC whose mechanics allow them to...

Same. These types of games usually get played as either dice games with a sprinkling of characterization, or characterization games with a sprinkling of dice. I will always choose using board games for the former and RPGs for the latter. Frankly because board games almost to a fault are...

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Absolutely. It's never been otherwise. Too bad though there seems to be an inordinate amount of people out there in gamerland who do kickstarters and pre-orders for products sight-unseen that they end up bitching about after the fact. :)

Eh, why not... let me just say it... Dungeons & Dragons as a game sucks. Dungeons & Dragons as a story rocks. There we go... just get the other side out there in the open to balance out the "pro-game" crowd. :D

Okay, fine. You stopped paying for it because it's not worth it to you. Seems like everything is fine now then.

But we're not talking about you and how you would theoretically deal with it... we're talking about tables for whom there's a player who has fireball and wants to use it. So that's up to the DM to design encounters that let players make use of the actions and spells they have. It doesn't...

Beats me. But people are arguing in this thread about whether they should or shouldn't be even though there's no reason to and no legitimate answer is going to come of it.

No idea. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't care too much about responding to what randos on the internet say about him. Which should be true of pretty much everyone. It's a waste of time and doesn't solve anything because people who want to complain will do so regardless of how incorrect they...

I do what I can. :D

I mean you're not wrong... but who are these DMs that have decided on only allowing specific products for their particular game but then letting their inexperienced players go in to make PCs under no supervision whatsoever? That just seems rather sill on the DM's part, LOL! I will say though...

At some point I think the DM just needs to man up and deal with it. ;) Sometimes the DM just has to risk the "oh-so-difficult" situation of sliding 24 counters across a grid every half-dozen sessions just so that the Wizard who loves fireball actually gets a chance to decimate enemies with it...

To me that's not a design problem, that's a DM problem. I suspect we just have a whole crap-ton of not very creative DMs out there. If the DM throws out a horde encounter of low-level foes every dozen or so encounters and the player are bored with that (and yet for some reason aren't bored...

There's nothing wrong at all with voting with your wallet. Better to just stop paying for it if it isn't worth the money and time anymore than it is to keep paying for it but doing nothing but endlessly complaining about it. Why do that to yourself? It's the same argument against people who...

I think everyone that wants Tiny gnomes should find or make up their own rules for them... balance them in whatever manner they are most comfortable with... and then play their games with them. But there's zero reason to want or expect every other person who plays the game to have to follow...

If WotC wanted to follow the lead of most other video game companies out there... they'd keep Sigil's door open on their coding and let the modding community have at the game. Those folks tend to put in tremendous amounts of work for little to no remuneration, making games work even better and...

Because you both get to do both. I know for me, sometimes when I see something or someone getting crapped on way more than I think it deserves, I'm more than happy to defend it. Because one of the negatives of social media is the pile-on effect-- once it seems like "the group" has decided it's...