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Curious to hear more. The formatting of the title makes me feel like there will be more in the series.

For me, the only way this would work is if non-pc species don't have intellect. It is limiting, but creativity can be born out of limitations.

That is a touch disappointing in some respects, but it is what it is. Will reserve judgement to seeing some stats. I stand by my appreciation for the design visually.

Gotta say, I quite like the succubi/incubi design. Sexy/sensual without being titillating. A hard task I am sure.

Look, often the most basic of thumbnail math of a challenge is simple. How often will the PCs hit/effect the challenge? 50% of the time? Less or More? How many successful actions will it take to overcome the challenge? Multiply then divide by the number of PCs. Thats how many rounds very roughly...

GM skills dont manifest from the head of Zeus unbidden. They need to be nurtured by the game itself. Poor game design is design that assumes GMs will intuit how to make things work instead of showing them how they can work. But a GM agnostic skill can be signaling to players that PCs are in...

Possibly. Or by finding non-combat solutions to overcome an obstacle. Or it can be simply tabling dealing with a threat until the group has a better shot at winning.

Calibration is still a needed element even in games that allow for unwinnable scenarios, else how can the players recognize the scenario is unwinnable prior to the tpk?

Expanding out a bit, what matters more is clear encounter design guidelines with examples. Give a sense of scale. How hard will a given challenge be for a give caliber of PCs?

A guard jamming their pike into a PCs guts interrupts their agency. A ravine being too far to jump across interrupts their agency. If your game has social or mental systems use them. If a player elects to have poor stats for said interactions, knowing that skills using them will come up, they...

Some psychotic posts here. Muscular Neutrality is the "Some good people on both sides" of DnD. It's a relic of some really wrong thinking navel gazing nonsense from people achingly entrenched in privilege. "Oh oh. Too much joy in the world. Need to up the suffering index." "I mean, there is...

It was, imho, the best use of the Storyteller system that White Wolf ever produced.

So "perfect" is a very high hurdle. For my answer, I guess it would have to be a game that had no supplements or if it did, they either added nothing or just were so inferior it just made more clear that all you needed was the main book. Furthermore, said book would have to leave no real ideas...

I kick-started Victoriana, so it is the big one for me. Daggerheart also has my attention.

Some really solid ideas here. Thanks. Only bit that I'm less all in for is the heritage variety solve. But that comes down to GM style and how willing one is to enforce option limitations. All told, some great pitches here.

On the short list of things that would get me to quit DnD.

Kinda resentful that I am going to keep seeing this gormless fool's face on the opening screen when I log on here for the next few weeks.

It's perfectly practical, for you. I already have issues with minis that drastically extend past the base on the table. In this pick, the wing on our right is in essence a full additional base wide if not longer. Again, for me, a lovely plastic statue, but a likely impractical gamepiece...