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Oh yeah, I'm pro-roles. They just make encounter building easier, and that's (to me) one of the more annoying parts f dming.

Eh, orcs carry a lot of lore baggage that Goliaths don't, and I think that's a big part of the appeal of goliaths. They're big guys but without being hated for existing. Not everyone who wants to be strong wants to experience racism.

Just gonna pick this out: one that works in a way that isn't really easy to capture with a single word. Like a lich could be a lot of things, so it'd be easier to actually spend some page addressing spell selection and different ways a lich might deal with being attacked. If something gets a...

Douglas Adams started writing with Doctor Who fanfics...

A variable: Weeknight games are easier to keep weekly, as most people's weekday schedules don't change much. If you're free on Wednesday nights, you're free every Wednesday unless it happens to be Christmas or something. But weeknight games need to be shorter; even playing online you can't...

That's about a year IRL if you're trying for every week (it's never every week, but 80% is probably doable.)

You forgot Dark Sun (psion). Are the other Toril setting getting the treatment? Because then Al-Qadim should get shi'ar.

It's not Sorcerers of the Coast.

Going this route, I might pull the monk form the core list and put it in Kara-Tur (alongside ninja and samurai as variations of existing classes.) Dark Sun gets psion, obviously.

Because some people still hate gnomes.

It could be, but I can't really say with confidence based on this information. It might be trad-trad, or somewhere in between the two.

That another totally valid style the the guy who wrote the article never even heard of.

Even in my experience, when playing Dungeons & Dragons (tm) - campaigns don't end because of the system. They end because real life gets in the way of scheduling. Even at high levels, if you find the system isn't working for you anymore, you tend to find a way to wrap it up quickly so you can...

I think each new kind of magic should get its own system - clerics shouldn't cast like wizards who shouldn't cast like druids, etc. I think sorcerer currently represents multiple kinds of magic, so lumping them together isn't really a good idea. Dragon magic shouldn't work like wild magic which...

I'm not really agreeing, but I do like to understand other and see others be understood. I'm currently in three campaigns with groups that have lasted since 2015, so 9 years now. Two of those have only finished one campaign in that time, but finish them we did. The other group has finished...

That might have been a major part of the shift, for sure. (Even though, somewhat ironically, HP is mostly a plot-driven series.) But Superhero movies, especially the MCU, are very much character-driven stories, and that style is still now the norm in mass media.

The history certainly goes back at east that far, but I think it became the norm in popular media a bit later (in the last twenty years or so) - at least that's my feeling. And even then, it's a shift in what's more common and popular - character-driven stories and plot-driven stories...

I believe their thesis was: a game will only last about X months, because Real Life (tm) eventually intrudes. So planning a campaign that will take three years to finish is, ultimately, planning to fail. The solution, therefore, is to plan a campaign that will finish in, say, nine months and...

Since someone's gonna ask: have you looked into PF 2e yet? Because it's closer to 4e DnD than any other edition thereof. I suspect you have but you didn't mention it. It's not as openly high-magic as 4e, which I do miss and also can't find people to play with, but it definitely scratches the...

I'd quibble and say that's when Trad started. Neotrad evolved as the general media landscape changed to more character-focused stories over plot focused stories, ttrpg players followed that trend.