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Can you give us a scale to work with? On a crunch scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being narrative and 10 being crunch can you give us three to four games positions on that scale? Also, I might suggest you seek out KAbyNight on twitch geek and sundry (maybe youtube) for a multi-session 5e VtM campaign...

If I may ask, what were your other RPG starters and your early formative? Not D&D is just as interesting to me. I started with AD&D but black book Traveller was as big for us early.

Started in 1980 with AD&D. It and little black book Traveller was my "origin story" as far as RPGs go. While as time went on there were lotsa others, those were the foundation. However, there were several more earthquakes - moments where how I saw that ROG foundation shifted. HERO system...

While no argument thst ritual caster is big, I have not seen it as the first feat for sorcerers either. There are a lot of other contenders and, really, if variety in spells is your goal, there are other classes. I mean, the wizards gains double the spells known at least level by level and...

Just the frequency of AoE damage is often enough. I mean being inside the spirit guardians radius of the enemy cleric and getting one magic missle out of the swarm ought to be of serious concern to many players who dont fear dropping to zero. This of course depends on campaign but frankly, it's...

Personally, in my next game, I am likely going something like this 0 hit points does not mean unconscious. While at 0 hp you make death saves as normal per 5e rules. At three fails you die, at three success you stabilize. You can act but are at risk. Any damage while st zero causes an extra...

Snark? If choosing to point out and disregard use of loaded terms and subjective judgements is snark, then I guess my dictionary is out if date. But to clarify, what are the objective rationale for your use of punish, gaping, exploit etc? what separates npcs taking effective tactics against...

Uhh... Ok so, first, when is this random determination made? Is it first in chargen so that the character could have seen its aptitudes snd lacks and went into or avoided certain career paths? Is it before or after player-side choices like race and player-side/character-side choucesvlike...

As an aside, I recall a reference to "speed of plot" from any number of scifi authors especially for TV when questions of how fast the ships move. I recall also the use of one lampooning of this by having one helmsman answer "how far away at top speed?" with "two commercial breaks, sir." A...

Yeah. Its entirely likely and to me even probable that most characters not using feats and most campaigns use feats are both true. They are not at all at odds with each other. The key is this, to me, there are a lot of factors that impact whether stats that count "characters" extrapolate into...

Well, regardless of how long we have been playing - you and I seem contemporaries - I would say that a possible stumbling block in communication would be "what kind of game it is people think they're playing." Cuz, jargon or Fotgd or not, whether one has played DnD or rider varieties, from my...

Well, see, it's less important for me what's on the wrapper as to what's inside. It's about the early feat... that's fine and dandy but when the first rule is feats and ASI get to be retrained ( general, not restricted to one feat or even to feats in general but ASI as well) that is the "milky...

Yup. Personally, I would love to be in a campaign with subtle but mostly the styles of play drive towards things like twin, quick, etc. If there was a sub-class that offered more meta-magic types estly... sigh.

Maybe look at the idea of having tiers 3 and 4 each have a list of abilities and getting to pick one at designated levels? Add a bit more customization at those higher tiers - making them more distinct than lowers.

Exploit, gaping, punish players, blah, blah... If my sorcerer throws a quick fireball then follows right there with his twinned chill touch on the two who seemed very hurt by it, it creates a serious tactical issue for that other side. That is even more true if the target was one who "dropped"...

Well, the rules allow a lot of things. For some tables those things may be seen as issues. For others, not. Those are what makes them "table issues." At my table for instance, the idea of letting folks drop thrn curing them from 0 as a tactic is a risk and a trade-off that in some...

So, all a rule needs to be a rule to be considered is to know when it is giving its bennies, at what level? We know a rule might give a feat st 2nd level, not first. The feat is given at 2nd level? So variant humans still get their original feat too, at first level - so they get one at 1st snd...

Actually to me it's even more clear. Equipment is not included. So yeah you can mskecextra stones. I mean, if your simulacra was ordered to craft scrolls. Those scrolls would still exist, tight? The thing is, by that point, its potent sure but its at tier-4 and using wishes... not really what...

Ok, so, again, the only "starting feat" in the game as us is for variant humans. You have not in your OP put forth any house rule that adds them beyond that. It's starting to sound like we are to assume there is dome other rule thst gives other characters starting feats? But it does not seem...

I agree. Maybe it gets fixed later, but not including XGtE spells etc seems to be problematic st yime.