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That for most people fun Is more important than the rules? No false dichotomy there. Some people love the rules and nothing but the rules, more people love rule 0. I didn't say there weren't people on the other side. I simply said rule 0 seems to be eternal and the other side failed to kill it.

Since the late 70's a small number of rules lawyers have been trying to kill rule 0. Even before it had a name and definition. Mockery of monte haul tables, or those that had made it to unlikely levels abounded. But you can't kill an idea and it turns out most people prioritize fun over...

so a bad skill system means the guy that didn't take the skill fails. Seems like a normal skill system. To me a skill system that anyone can succeed on isn't really a skill system and you might as will do away with the skills system and just DM hand waive it to move things on.

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I Simply replied to the idea that it was hard to prevent crafting that way. Nothing was said about could or should. Its. Not hard to stop crafting or magic item shops. it is hard to stop players from wanting those parts of the game.

DEpends on the game. If you are facing the destruction of all that you love from multiple fronts then you may not have downtime. Ive played a multiyear caMpaign like that. I wouldnt run one like that but its not hard to put players in situations where time off is bad things for all the...

by some Relatively pushy people on the internet. Who cares if the table is hacving fun.

Or have a game with strict timelines. Either way is a bit cheeesey but will limit items. Of course if items are easy for playerz to craft or buy they are for villains as well.

I think PF2E took the majority of the players that required tactical encounter each combat. DnD is probably just letting that small group that takes more resources to design for go. It seems to me that 5E has almost been defined by mot being the crunchy pathfinder or 3e game and that seems...

Rarer but harxer encounters is still attrition. You just have one loooong fight instead of several smaller ones.

In a game where players are measured by Hitpoints gear and stuff that make them harder to hit and let them do more damage how do you get rid of attrition? That's really the elephant in the room. Made worse by long rest and short rest rules that were designed to stop the complaining from...

Originally all the oddball himanoids were giant kin. So yeah it was a nice buff

They were fully in warrior class it got fuzzy because in the wilderness they habe a flat 50% chance to surprise which in 1e was huuuuuge. You could get multiple full round attacks if the dice were food to you. One ranger with a perfect surprise round could take out 3 or 4 orcs easily if they...

Druids having magic user style spells was a thing in a lot of fantasy back then. Rangers were written up in 1st ed to almost be the knights of the druidic world

Running greco roman gods either version, EGO, EGO,EGO, and anything that questions power or position will get big reactions. Also dont forget to look deeper. the primal forces of the Universe are things that even Zues is afraid of. the gods and Godesses related to Nyct (night, or darkness)...

Ranger was a druid centric wilderness warrior/sbut sneaky in the wilderness in 1st ed. Strider roaming the realms in tolkiem and jack vance books is where it stadted

W E had no "expected" playstyle back then. Then like now the proper playstyle was what the table wants. The ravenloft campign setting has always suffered from being the campaign setting preferred by those that like horror movies. Watch friday the 13th any one of them then read the modules...

I don't think the elemental planes were ever anything but an attempt to justify where summoned creatures come from. All they really are are the sources of materials for the worlds that creator deities make. They are useful if you arent' going with science based worlds. go deep enough into the...