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It's my mission as GM to stop the canned choices. It's a creative game and I encourage players to be as creative as possible. For example, I hate the traits being on tables you could roll on in the 2014 version. Too many players just pick from the tables, instead of creating their own...

We find creating our own to be more flavourful and story oriented. The WotC ones are all bland. Nothing wrong with ordinary backgrounds but we like to mix it up with "raised by goblins" or "transformed wizard familiar." We'd also prefer to pick an origin feat that matches the character, so maybe...

The fire, lightning, acid, repeatedly being stabbed and slashed... No, not even in my fairly light combat style.

Bestiaries are usually books I just have on hand for reference. I read the 13th Age one cover to cover.

I'm not being pushy here, and it may very well not be the game for you, but I wasn't too sure about 13th Age until I played it. Playing and running the game made it sing.

They should be credited in the physical books as well. Not enough room? Make room!

I appreciate the classes in 13th Age being specifically designed. I love the fact that averages of stats are used for defenses. You really don't want to dump any stat in 13th Age. And the one unique thing is brilliant. Also love the freeform use of backgrounds as skills. The way a background is...

We backed the latest C&C edition. Been curious about it for years.

We've been doing a lot of outdoor stuff with Shadowdark. Works great. There is also a pulp mode if you want more epic heroes.

I haven't watched much Critical Role. I did see their Candela Obscura episodes and the players seemed to get confused and make silly assumptions and engage in typical player behaviours, so no, not scripted. Other than better voice acting and focussing, not that different from our table. 😊

WotC does seem bent on removing a lot of hindrances or minor frustrations. Those delicious tricky decisions are vanishing as well. It's not a huge problem, but balancing risk vs. reward or sacrificing one thing in order to do another adds teeth to the game.

I really like Ars Magica, with memorized spells being safe and predictable and spells characters throw together on the fly being riskier to cast. I also like short spell descriptions that are open to interpretation like you find in Knave. Lots of opportunity to take a flavourful description...

I think so too. If I'm recalling correctly, rolling fell out of favour for a while, but came back because players got bored with the standard array and didn't care for the point buy system.

Mechanically the ranger is fine. I don't like the flavour because my personal fantasy of ranger is not the constant muttering of spells.

Does how fast you age and learn really matter when a few months of the adventuring life will send you hurtling up several levels? 😏

All the systems I've seen (snd there are a lot now) do mixed species really well, without unbalancing choices. The heritage/culture system in LU is fun. (I just recently made a wood elf raised by fire elementals. His forest was destroyed and he's now a champion dedicated to retribution.) And...

It's not that the concept of half elves and half orcs are disappearing from the other games, it's the other games are opening things up to any kind of mixed species. Level Up, Pathfinder, Tales of the Valiant, DC20 all have ways to mix and match species traits. Ghostfire Gaming is updating Grim...

In my game a missed arrow could absolutely hit a different target that's not a buddy, or just not hit anything.

I allow missile fire into melee. I make sure players are aware they risk hitting an ally if they miss their target. If they miss, there's a chance a friend is hit instead but it's not automatic The likelihood of friendly fire depends on the chaos of the scene. I like how really skilled archers...

I was sold on the little hardcover books in boxes. It was a very silly reason to buy a game, but am loving it! So easy to tinker with and add bits and pieces to. Dolmenwood has me excited but waiting on the physical fulfillment.