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I don't play currently, but I did voluntarily play a game back in 1994. I wasn't into D&D at that point in time, but then, as now, it was the most popular game, and the most available. Character creation is usually pretty simple. It's fun to comb through books to find cool options in a game that...

This is covered in detail in Xanathar's.

Partly because brewing a healing potion isn't normally a DC you roll against during an adventure, so there is otherwise a risk of making it trivial. But mainly because brewing a healing potion requires knowledge of a formula and the skill to make it, and I would really like to hear your...

I think the quantity of wealth should be controlled. Yes, a dragon might have a bunch of money, but at that level and up, you should mostly be looking at magical treasures and truly priceless gemstones. It's sort of surreal to assume an ancient stone giant wizard must be some kind of billionaire...

There's a button to refuse to upgrade. But I assume that will only be there as long as it takes to refine the update.

The biggest problem I have with restricting skill checks, second to simply breaking the RAW in a big way and upsetting the presumed balance, is that the DM places themselves in the position of stating who they think the PC. The classic one I hear is, "Well, would you let the Barbarian make an...

So, anyway, the GM book says to vary encounter difficulty. Which most people ignore. But it's not really a problem with 5e so much as 5e DMs, and maybe some 5e module writers. Even with just +/-2 Challenge, which is pretty tame, you can have a wide variety of creatures, with a wide variety of...

The greater fool.

If I'm understanding correctly, the best hope for a lot of your favorite games is going to be that, at the other end of the tunnel, someone picks them up in a fire sale and puts them back on the market.

It wasn't a forum I visited, but I tend to think of every dedicated forum that closes as something valuable lost. Yet maintaining a forum takes time and energy, which can be a distraction from publication.

This isn't a quiet release, that URL has been around for a while. I've seen it pop up from time to time while doing backend stuff that hadn't been migrated to the new site yet.

I actually don't care for the Pf1 skills system. I like some of the skill mergers, but that's about it.

Magic missile is the deadliest spell in the game.

My favorite CRPG is Final Fantasy, which has essentially none of that stuff. It's all about gaining levels and finding magic items. Likewise, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, for the PS/2. I don't like "good" CRPGs. I think Knights of the Old Republic is one of the worst games I've ever played. I...

So, just to clarity, I think the name of the newer edition is HARP Fantasy.

So, what's the deal? I played MERP and Rolemaster 2e back in the day. Recently, I dipped into Rolemaster Unified, and I liked some things about it, while hating the art and having some criticisms of a few subsystems here and there. So, quite a while ago, I thumbed through a copy of HARP and...

I'm just fascinated by this. Is the issue not that the not perfectly smooth surfaces can't pass through each other? Is there something going on besides bumps?

All those things exist in relationship to culture. There are unread poems, but there is no such thing as a poem in a language no one knows.

What is the difference here? Maybe I'm missing something, but this just sounds like special pleading to me.

I placed periods between the sentences. There are clear grammatical demarcations between what I am saying and what you are saying. There are no rhetorical "shenanigans" here, just regular rhetoric. I am fully prepared to go point by point on any reasonable basis. What I don't understand is...