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I think people overlook that we're not talking about absolutes here. The crunchiest physics simulators still make concessions to human playability and desired play style. No game that I am aware of models all forms of interpersonal combat realistically well. I like games that simulate--...

Shocking grasp or inflict wounds. I'm 100% okay with cure wounds provoking, because that's why healing word exists.

If we're not changing anything else about how D&D does up its ability scores, I'd break it down to 20 at 4th level, +1 for every "pure" ASI chosen. Given carte Blanc, I'd allow PCs to buy up to 16 and roll up to 20 at first level (super special hybrid method) and then characters would get a...

Nah. If you've got a spell that is designed to only work in melee combat, it should be a reasonable option to use in melee combat. Automatically stuffing the save is a nice nod back to older editions... but worth remembering the only casters with decent Con saves are Sorcerers, Eldritch...

I agree, but it'd still be a considerable stealth nerf for spellcasters. Fair. I'm just spitballing here.

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Give all characters half their PB to non-proficient saves. Casting any non-melee spell within melee range provokes. Getting hit by an opportunity attack while casting forces a concentration save or stuffs the spell. Spellcasting occurs in a separate phase at the end of the round, getting hit...

I'm not a big advocate for high lethality in D&D, but when people fall down in my games, they stay down. If the healer wants to keep their comrades in the fight, they damned well need to keep them on their feet. I make it harder to knock PCs down, and I make sure that down doesn't always mean...

I love playing the healer. I'd have loved it a lot sooner if it hadn't been shackled to being a god-beggar until 3.5/PF1.

I'm at least warmly fond of Snyder's work (in general) and I am desperate for any kind of high-profile non-Gisnep space opera. edit: Ain't to say I don't love Star Wars, and specifically Filoni Disney's take on the franchise, but I'd love the flavor a whole lot better if it weren't the only...

Can't wait for the TTRPG discourse to come up with the next word that explains what I've been doing all along.

Needs more pineapple.

I do not want a market leader. I don't want to replace a feral 900 pound gorilla with a supposedly friendly 800 gorilla. What I want is four or five hungry 400 pound gorillas, in a bathroom stall, with one switchblade knife between them. Given my druthers, the entire D&D brand would be owned...

A lot of the problem is definitional. We have a funny definition of what is "supernatural", whether it's magic or superscience, and anything that is not those things is "mundane". Personally, I think we should start by defining "supernatural" in terms of the square cube law.

Well, yes. If you don't want player characters to be powerful, you shouldn't play them at high levels.

It affects the Rogue, though, and their ability to find the wealth that exists. The Rogue's hunger for gold should not make more wealth exist in the world to be found-- though what a wonderful world this would be, if wealthy billionaires actually worked that way!

Personally, it's because I derive the majority of my spiritual sustenance from the disapproval of my lessers.

I wasn't proposing it as an alternative. It's my best theory for why the original might have seen a surge of interest.

Early Oughts, it got a fairly high profile CRPG adaptation for the 3.0 (point five, maybe?) rules.

Way I'd fix that: kill Mystic Arcanum and all 6-9 level spells from Warlock class list, allow Pact Magic to scale up to 9th for Warlock spells only with extra slots at 2/6/10/14/18, and then give them Paladin/Ranger spellcasting on top.