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yes it limits the stories you can tell, but is that really a bad thing? i would much rather pay for a system that allows me to tell great stories of a certain type then one that would allow me to tell any story in a mediocre or lackluster manner. as for "doesn't require too much thinking" can...

people keep talking like "instant gratification" is a bad thing. why is it bad to want to have a nice thing now or at least get to the nice part quickly? that, like obryn said "You should stick at a level exactly as long as it's fun to do so, and not much longer". then again, in older editions...

i would say it's partially because in older editions it took forever to level up and unless you were a caster, your scope of options pretty much stayed the same. a fighter in 2nd ed, when gaining a level hit a little bit more accurately and got more hit points. and that's it, really. some...

one thing i've noticed with TTRPG designers is that very few come from a game design-esque background, most of the ones i've looked up have degrees in things like literature, history, geography, etc... very few seem to have mathematics or game design/theory as their majors. then again it could...

definitely. i would be insane to ignore an entire medium with as wide a scope of content as a source of inspiration. i've been playing videogames about as long as i've been hucking d20s and like all design influences, it's more about retaining the concept and conveying the ideas rather then a...

i would like to think i'm ready for a version of D&D i can actually enjoy. looking back on my years of D&D playing, RPGs in general really, i've had lots of fun, but the most of it was when we had basically put the rulebooks aside and simply played magical tea party. basically, i like the...

honestly speaking, i'm enjoying my time away from TTRPGs. after a decade (give or take a few years) of playing almost exclusively 3rd ed and it's ilk i've burnt out. the local popular game is just no longer any fun and setting up another group just isn't in my future, especially since i'm not...

the price itself doesn't matter much, be it 30, 50 or 100 dollars, but rather "is the quality of these rules and my want to play them greater then or higher then the cost of this book and how does it compare to this other list of stuff i might want to buy?" and do note that i am pitting this...

haven't bought a book in a loooooong time. partially because nearing the end of 3rd ed's lifecycle (pre-4th ed development rumors) i came to a realization that i have a lot of material right now and i'm simply not playing any of it... it's becoming a waste of shelf space, a waste of money and...

i wouldn't mind a shift in how we approach the implementation of crunch in games. debating if a game should be heavy or light in the rules has never been a problem for me, but rather how crunch is used and presented that gets my goat. seeing games take a good hard look at how they approach...

while it seems Xun's going to be away for a bit, i'll reply to this none the less: because most D&D tables generally can't accommodate the full circle of friends and acquaintances one has and never, in my experience, the full community's worth of bodies the group, as a whole, has access to. i...

i think the saddest thing of all this is the fact that you kept playing a game you didn't like instead of giving your seat to someone else. any "enduring" you did was entirely self-inflicted. that WotC stopped producing 3rd ed material does nothing to devalue the material already out there...

in a vacuum? my happiness over yours 100% of the time, unless for some reason your being less happy then me can have some serious repercussions on my personal life, but given a single option in a vacuum and no other surrounding variables, i'll pick me over someone else. also, by the unlogic (or...