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It's an interesting thought exercise. No harm in that. One reason I'm interested in a d12 variant is the D&D systems that were dropped with 3e: Reaction, & Morale rules were 2d6 based. It should be easy to move those to 1d12 rolls for a true 'universal' system. Unneeded in the hobby, but...

How would this scale if the d12 explodes on a 12, similar to the d10 dice mechanic in CP RED and the Witcher RPG? I ask because my mathematic ability is horrible, I got lost at: "scales with standard deviation, the square root of variance"...LOL.

Oh no. :eek: WotC is just delivering the "...is this fun?" edition that the player base asked for... :love:

This happened when WOTC did a bunch of surveys basically asking players: “Wouldn’t extra magic for PC races be fun?” And the players responded to those surveys and said: “Yes, more magic would be more fun! Could we have more cool powerz for our PC’s while you’re at it?” And WOTC said: “Why...

In my opinion; The rational comes down to wanting to put them as playable races in the game, and keep everything the same. When everything is Medium regardless of what the MM says, then It's all just different flavored skinsuits at that point. If this is a foreseeable issue, why can't the GM...

2023, the year of D&D... That is a very ambitious roll out. ^This^ IMHO Hasbro has a lot riding on the success of all this stuff to put D&D over as a 'lifestyle' brand. The potential for "D&D" to make money with Toys, Video games, Tv, and Movies is exponentially bigger than anything that it...

I am of the opinion that had WotC stuck to that HP paradigm with 3-5e it would have smoothed out the math at higher levels and greatly reduced the scaling issues that have plagued every edition since. Not a bad notion at all... IMHO Star frontiers has the more recognizable name in the hobby...

The only thing I can think of is that it is a kind of a game design 'blind spot'. Level goes up, of course HP must go up... It has just been so much a part of D&D based games design, that it is just taken as a given. Changing it just doesn't occur to them. When really 'levels' are just a way...

Harry Potter* aside, If you look at the Fantasy that has broken out into the mainstream, you have: Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Conan, and The Witcher. All three taken individually, or heck, even combined are far and away more "low-magic", and less fantastical, than Forgotten Realms...

This is standard corporate speak. Alvarez may very well have legit health concerns. But also they may be rather mild, and in the current year 'for health reasons' may be the new 'seeking new opportunities'... Impossible to know. Honestly, the President title seems rather hollow at Pazio...

This is actually a rather sensible policy if it had remained a constant. WotC has been very coy about how they are 'not' committing to an 'official setting' (Forgotten Realms) for 5e, so it fits that publishing paradigm perfectly. It also serves as a useful bit of WotC policy to point to for...

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! We can't have people looking up the definitions of things. This is crazy talk! Just be glad you didn't go completely off the rails and cite the dictionary definition of "Full" and "Compatible". Or heaven forbid; both. "Dan" might have written a blog post about: "What Does...

Shocked! ...Shocked I say! Never. The 50th 5eAE is Not. A. New. Edition. Therefore anything that they do is inherently compatible with what came before because, it is just a evolved not-edition of the same game. Get it? ;)

I have provided concrete examples and explanations for why I believe that removing death from the game is a sufficient paradigm shift to be able to say that you would be no longer playing the game as intended. That you disagree with my reasons, outright ignore them, or evidently do not accept...

No, you're serving as an object lesson in reality denial. Notice in my posts how I preface a lot of what I say with In my opinion... You may disagree, that's fine. That you have entirely missed the point I was making is no surprise now that you have doubled down on trying to gaslight me that...

Yes it does. Because dictionary. You are openly denying what a word means in the English language. Still no. The definition of words is not his, mine, yours, or the "gaming community's" call to make on all societies behalf. For someone who ostensibly wants objective truth, you seem to be...

From the dictionary: Gatekeeping noun 1. The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something. From the article: "What Does ‘Gatekeeping’ Mean in RPGs?" Hot Tip: It means the exact same thing as it does everywhere else: Because Dictionary. The author "Dan" then...

I never made that claim. I have not once referenced playing RAW. I specifically and intentionally use the words: Gameplay as intended. Which is why Appeals to the authority of Rule Zero are irrelevant to what I am talking about. See my post replies #344 and #347. Wherein I make such extreme...