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In for the accents.

Yes, the best design is always one that caters perfectly to your own preferences, while leaving options for folks who prefer differently to adjust.

Depends on the focus of the Tolkien fantasy. I think modern folks want to focus more on being bad ass elves and dwarves running into epic battles then being dirt farming hobbits thrust into a journey thats going to get them killed. One is capability and scope, the other is survival against the...

This was actually a big problem starting in at least 3E. "Back to the Dungeon" is what 3E was billed on. If you look not too closely at the ruels, you can kind of see a lot of simulation in there doing just that. Though, if you lean in further you see they also built in all kinds of rules hacks...

I agree with much of this. As somebody who does like those mechanical archetypes I like that link between setting/adventure and character. It isnt needed, but ive also found that some GMs are not going to help me with this either. I can make up all kinds of narrative but if its ignored, or worse...

Yeah... folks have been there done that and have an entire closet full of the t-shirts. Dungeons and Dragons has grown beyond sword and sorcery and Bored of the Rings. It's just not what its emulating anymore. Though, to be fair, folks are often wondering exactly what it emulates becasue it has...

Sometimes, though other times he nails hope as good as any author. Like Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

Thats...a long story so; come sit, and listen for awhile. I was captured by the "Big Dragon" as a wee lad. I had tutors of the game from other friends and adults I found out who played. They were much into what would be called OSR RPGs today. As 2E came along and settings got more and more...

Hi, welcome. Follow the community rules and you should be fine. I play a number of systems and don’t have just one. I do have favorites by genre and type of experience. An old system may be replaced by a new one if it works better for me. Examples. Fantasy was D&D and is now PF1 Sci-Fi was...

I don’t think it fair to criticize the design for something it doesn’t do anymore which is survival sim. D&D is heroic fantasy now. Staving of hunger or avoiding dysentery from bad water isn’t that exciting for hero stories. One area I would criticize is the lack of moudularity that was...

Eberron felt a pinch less kitchen sink but still pretty encompassing. I really enjoyed the factions, locales, lore. DDO did well to bring it to life. Golarion won me over because it was like fantasy Indiana Jones. Paizo adventures rewrote the book for me. The amount of content for Golarion has...

Took over the setting with my coffee franchise Sandbucks.

I had a bunch of runs with Forgettable Realms but during that particular period I was heavily homebrewing. I didnt RPG for a few years while I played DDO. Afterwards, I really got into Golarion and PF1.

IDK, if resistant is the right word. Id go more with disinterested. Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) actually really warmed me up to the setting.

Id take a scalpel to 3E/PF1 and add bounded accuracy to it.

I will say after playing Masks, I can enjoy Supers in narrative focused games. I do not want to play one, however, in what recently was described as tall progression designed RPG such as 5E.

GMing it maybe but it doesn’t play any more complex that Roll20