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Yeah, I've been having real doubt for a while if "game" actually is a fitting term for roleplaying activities. What are the win conditions? Who is playing against who? It's certainly "play", but it really does not seem like a "game". (And to go really noodly with semantics, is the fact that...

Well, with "Balance" I actually do believe that it's a bad thing to have as a goal in an RPG. With "Fairness" I'm not sure what people mean by the term.

Oh boy! I mean, berk! I've developed quite an interest in the chaotic planes between the alignments. The ones that seem to never really get much attention. Beastlands, Ysgard, Pandemonium, Carceri, and Gehenna. (Law is boring.) I think 3 out of 4 times an outer plane appears in D&D, it's the...

Why is fairness even desireable in an RPG? What even are examples of unfairness, and why are they a problem?

A Star Wars game that doesn't use funky dice will always be welcome. Sadly it will likely include mentions of Disney Star Wars in the rulebook and I'm not sure how badly that would reduce the fun of reading and learning the rules.

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Unique monsters with semi-divine backgrounds being more common than fantastical but common wildlife feels like it would be a common thing in Bronze Age Fantasy. One minotaur. Three gorgons.

I feel that PtbA games advocate that GMs should give the players more agency than other rulebooks do. But I don't think that the mechanics of the games actually change that by themselves.

I think the main thing that makes the Bronze Age interesting as a different reference point for fantasy game worlds is the social structure. Yes, you have "kingdoms", but these are neither feudal nor absolutist. You have palace economies (which are fairly collectivist) and the role of king is...

I guess it's a thing, but it seems meaningless. I don't see how a GM could not have it or have it limited. Apocalypse World has the principle "Disclaim Decision Making", where you decide to not pick what happens in a given situation but ask the players to make the choice for you, or roll dice...

Some of the old campaign settings. Many of the monsters. The B/X rules are a pretty good game if you fix the mechanics for rolling attack.

Yes. The 2nd edition box that is an expansion on the Savage Frontier material is called The North. The additions are okay, but the timeline advances are not. For some reason, The North frequently mentions cool things from The Savage Frontier that no longer exist, but doesn't replace them with...

It's a slam dunk for The Savage Frontier. Not just the best FR sourcebook, but perhaps the best campaign setting book ever made for any game. It's almost a complete setting in itself that is written to provide GMs with a starting point to create their own content for their own campaign, not a...

A first level wizard is not a spellcaster. It's a scholar accompanying an expedition of ruin explorers and treasure hunters. And as you advance through the lower levels, you might even cast the occasional utility spell that helps with negating obstacles in the path of the expedition, and you'll...

Isle of Dread!

I think the creator of the game and owner of the company did manage the finances of a far right populist and agitator. That's why we don't hear about ACKS anymore. Buying the game is funding nazis.

That's bronze dragons.

D&D is an RPG. The actual question is what else is also an RPG?

I think it was in 2nd edition where some of the slaads have a chance to summon a number of other slaads of the same type that puts the average per summon above 1. Which in turn also can use their summon ability. Just one of them has the potential to cause a cascading chain reaction of summoning...

There's an old game named Sorcerer, in which I believe all PCs are sorcerers. Though I think it uses the term for any people who have the ability to interact with the supernatural.