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Every version of Keep on the Borderlands is designed for beginners. It's B1! From that perspective it's absolutely comparable.

Which goes to say that there is ample room for multiple interpretations, making any particular one a matter of preference.

Doesn't make them genre appropriate though.

I always thought that was a neat world.

But if the Fates don't change things for mortals, they're not altering fate. In any case, the Fates have in my estimation always been depicted as a group apart from the Olympians.

Agreed. I think I might rework Dragonborn heritage gifts to that effect, much like I did with my A5e version of draconians (each type is a different heritage gift).

Do those folks alter fate though? The Fates just know how it's going to go. Tyche and Eris don't necessarily know how its going to go, they just want it to go a certain way. And prophecy is very unreliable and open to interpretation. Case in point: I see and understand your interpretation, but...

I assume they were translating it to 3e+ terms.

Greek-style "human" gods are even less likely to be in a position to alter fate IMO.

That's true, but I personally have no interest in any other answer in an RPG.

I can see that having some truth to it. Still, gods in most settings don't directly exert significant reality-altering influence on the mortal world much, usually due to ancient agreements between themselves, or commandments from a overgod or similar being. And fortune-telling, while commonly...

Affecting probability isn't the same thing as telling the future.

Naturally my favorite side of the man.

I'd just bypass the whole thing and use @Lanefan 'S idea that the Deck is simply immune to divination.

Do you think that's what they were going for this time around? Edgy teens murdering goblins at a birthday party?

They should have just made them all different flavors of cultists, with undead for spice. That's the WotC way in 5e.

Not in my experience. I've taught history at a variety of grade levels. That stuff comes up all the time.

What isn't? The action movie or the starter set?

Your opinion is that that belief is incorrect. Why present rules on GM agendas and principles as rules if your intent is not to control behavior? Apparently there are a fair number if people who, for whatever reason, have a negative opinion about traditional GM/player power distribution. I can...

I'm also on the tinker side, but I like tech in fantasy RPGs, and I'm a fan of both Dragonlance and Spelljammer.