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I see it as a toolkit, which can be played out of the box if that's so desired. Often, I find myself entertained by the standard game. I guess you could say it's a tool kit where I engage with most of it fluidly. As is, I don't see how having a default race would really change things for the...

Oh, I don't think the official content is perfectly balanced at all- I just know what to expect, and things are generally clustered "well enough" IME. I don't disallow home-brew, I just make a special point of checking it before allowing it. I don't have a problem with doing it at all, I just...

Saying "I just don't need dragon people or cat people to accomplish that" implies that we need alternate races to achieve what you can with humans- not the case. No one needs it, it's wanted because they find it fun, interesting and/or narratively useful. You aren't/haven't been listening to...

It's not just because it is in the books, it's also because it could very easily be in a now-starting campaign, which should be somewhat flexible to start with, if you're DM-ing players with sway on events. Nothing is lost, as nothing is in place "to lose." I do draw the line at official...

That sounds like a problem with either your or your DM's writing. "Human only campaign" is a workaround for a writing problem that's keeping you from taking advantage of the opportunities of other races. Nothing that can be down with humans can't be done with other races, and nothing with other...

At the start. If I were making a campaign using GURPS, and talking with my players about could go down prior to my development of the world, if any of them wanted to use a specific feature, I'd allow it. If I proposed a restriction they were not interested in, I would not include it. After we...

When it's said that Metropolis was built around superman, it's in a narrative sense, not a literal sense. What's the real world continuity that led to Metropolis? I imagine Superman came first, no?

We agree on the setting thing. Just cough up the number. I will spoil: there is none, because the success or failure of this is dependent on the writer, not the features themselves having some magical critical mass. I couldn't convince you a city was different than a type of organism, but I'll...

I'm not a graphic designer, but I could see spacing and whatnot being valuable to edit. Aside from that, many of the basic features like duration/range/components/casting time are listed in separate lines with the labels restated. Here's what I'd do for Eldritch Blast. -------------------...

"Is that not dark enough?" No, it's plenty dark, but this isn't a darkness contest. It's about what the background is about, and why things are the way they are for the PC. Maybe it's the same "what", but the "why" is one of the most important parts of storytelling. Being a literal devil-spawn...

How am I supposed to demonstrate it? I think that, IRL, the existence of Ohio has had a different impact on the world compared to, say, One Direction. How am I supposed to prove that? A group of people is interacted with in a different way than a geographical feature. A group of people makes...

A story about a struggle against a dark background changes a lot depending on what that background is. If you come up with a rough equivalent/approximation, of course you can tell a similar story. And what you consider inconsequential fluff is a matter of opinion, because its significance...

I would probably change the formatting of spell blocks, be it the text format or the general spacing. There's a way for it to take less space.

I can safely say that the information on those 82 pages does not take 82 pages.

Yes. I have not denied/do not deny this.

I would like to apologize for the "Jack Daniels" typo. Aside from that, I don't know what to tell you other than Ohio and Cat People are different because they just are different physical things which have different impacts on a campaign from their inclusion or absence, which is relative to how...

Can we talk about your focus the PHB and a PHB? Saying "the PHB" isn't a problem because it's referring to the uniform information behind each copy of the book's covers, which is being consulted regardless of how you access it. It doesn't matter if it's grammatically correct, it's a...

Oh, he could very easily be wrong. If I banned the Dart weapon for fear of causing violence in game, I'd be wrong. What I did does not solve the problem I think it's going to solve. The DM is not infallible, and their power is meant to be a tiebreaker/final word, not tyranny over Players. Like...

It's different in a lot of ways, because "from Ohio" are the key words there. The equivalent to "no Tabaxi here" would be flat-out "no Humans here." The problem for the self insert isn't the race, it's that their background has to be tweaked to fit in. No one is questioning if the DM has that...

You can ask what you wish, but I don't think that these questions tie in particularly well to the discussion. I am not familiar with V:tM, but my question is, does their Player Book have Elves in it already, or something? That'd be a pretty big difference to start with. With that said, doesn't...