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WotC doesn't do "new editions" without changing the XP table and the saving throw mechanics.

@Man in the Funny Hat Yep, that's how I've always interpreted the distinction too. Clerics get their powers from deities and are all about religion; paladins get their powers from the impersonal force of Lawful Goodness that even LG gods are beholden to and don't so much serve LG gods as ally...

Oh… I don't think I can agree with that at all. Let's be clear here: illusionism is fundamentally a force play — it's forcing a GM-desired outcome in spite of a mechanism for choosing between multiple possible outcomes (be that mechanism a player decision, a random generator, a subsystem of...

Interested to see where this discussion goes. For my part, I try very hard to avoid illusionism at all costs, chiefly for ideological/play-style reasons. It's more habit than necessity these days, but in the past, I found myself needing to resort to transparency techniques to avoid both the...

Babylon 5, Enterprise, and Farscape all deserved the fifth season they didn't get. Stargate SG-1 deserved at least five, and maybe even as many as seven, of its ten seasons. (Stargate Atlantis, meanwhile, definitely jumped the shark far sooner.)

I made sure to get some ectoplasm-colored d6s for playing d6 Ghostbusters / Spooktacular. :cool:

My brain immediately goes to Final Fantasy for this question. It is my core reference point for what a class system ought to look like. And if we map FF1's original six classes onto the D&D ability scores, it looks like this: Strength — Fighter Dexterity — Thief Constitution — Black Belt...

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Only if the Classic rules come with it. ;)

It'd be a waste of a waltz then. The "game part of an RPG" isn't a thing without whatever is facilitating tactical infinity (GM judgement, distributed authority, player consensus, whatever). Remove that from the equation and you don't have an RPG at all.

Because tactical board games do not admit tactical infinity. There is little room for lateral thinking in HeroQuest or Gloomhaven.

I loved Alternity back in the day, and I still have my old books. It's not my go-to space opera game anymore (that would be White•Star), but I definitely use Alternity (especially Star*Drive), d20 Future, and Star Frontiers as system-agnostic supplements when I have occasion to run White•Star.

Game > milieu > setting > character > story.

Oh, that's easy — it's The Force Awakens, because The Force Awakens was trying so very hard to be A New Hope without actually being A New Hope. It was also the bellwether for the direction of the third trilogy, which means that all responsibility for everything wrong with The Last Jedi and Rise...

Third session; already need Chainmail.

The deplorable word from The Chronicles of Narnia. Alternatively, the killer joke from Monty Python.

Still working my way through Hello from the Magic Tavern (and its many, many spinoffs); Hey Riddle Riddle; Mission to Zyxx; and Improvised Star Trek.