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The rules aren't a D&D adaptation/expansion (like say Tales of the Valiant, Pathfinder or Level Up are)... although the game does have a whole host of things that are mirrored from it (six ability scores that almost match to SDCIWCh perfectly, the same classes like Bard, Druid, Ranger, Rogue...

Point taken... but then let's say Daggerheart is a 'fantasy heartbreaker' because it's the all fans and players hearts that have been broken because Critical Role isn't using it for their Season 4 campaign. ;) And yes, Pathfinder 1 is the one exception that proves the rule because it actually...

I disagree that the party would need or want to actually interact with these organizations if the party itself can accomplish whatever it is they would otherwise need from them. It's my belief that most players are naturally risk-adverse and do not like owing things to other NPCs, because most...

Absolutely. I believe them both too. But it would be highest point of egotism for me to suggest here on EN World that just because I believe them then of course I'm right and everyone else should thus believe them too. I may think highly of myself, but not that much, LOL! :D

But the other way to look at it is that this person has volunteered to host Poker night because no one else wanted to do it. So if the other players all show up and take the person up on their hospitality because they themselves couldn't be bothered to host... they shouldn't get to then also...

That's the thing, as none of us have an actual knowledge of the situation, there's no reason for any of us to assume they are lying-- but also no reason to assume they are not (other than what we believe Matt and Travis' respective morals to be.) And on that front I would agree that they almost...

You're absolutely correct, none of us are really going to know the actual answers and I don't even think most of us actually care one way or the other. :) So all I can do is make a supposition as to why things happened as they did. As far as we on the outside are aware, CR was not offered...

It might be a big win, but I would question whether or not the possibility of CR switching to Daggerheart would actually impact WotC enough to warrant them ever having been truly concerned? I mean from my personal POV (as uninformed as I will freely admit)... it feels like CR switching...

Well, if that's how you feel, then so be it. If you find the phrase "fantasy heartbreaker" insulting and you then infer things about me and my intentions if I use it, there's nothing I can do about that. You believe what you believe, regardless of what the truth actually is. 🤷

There's two different things here that you would need to figure out for yourself with regards to the success or failure of instituting your house rule-- the "in-world reality" you are trying to mimic, and the "characters having less mechanics strength" at the start of each "day". If you are...

And this is exactly why there is no correct answer. Every player will have a different opinion on how many classes is the right amount and how subclasses are the right amount too. And never the twain shall meet. So the D&D designers just make ones they think will be enough to sell.

I did not say 'failure'. That is you using that term. I said that every other fantasy RPG based off of D&D was a 'fantasy heartbreaker' and would not be as successful or as well-known as D&D. But a game can sell less and be less well-known than Dungeons & Dragons and not be a 'failure'. They...

Slow HD recovery would only ever impact those tables for whom Short Rests were actually taken enough times to see the PCs come close to running out of HD. Because for those tables that take few Short Rests, they won't spend as many HD each day, and thus even 'slow' HD recovery will put them...

LOL... at this point, after almost 20 years of annonymous online gaming (Everquest, WoW, et. al.)... I think it's safe to say that the people who try and play online in a mature and helpful manner that one would actually behave like at an actual table... are indeed they the ones who actually...

Especially considering that some of those people who think a product should be better don't actually want to follow that through to its logical (and only) conclusion, which is they will need to make those improvements themselves if they actually want it. Rather, they think that just complaining...

At the end of the day I don't really think it's necessary to try and make ones' game "play to the theme"... but rather if one uses the things within the setting to their fullest extent, the setting's themes will come out whether you knew what they were or not. Eberron's cities have Changelings...

What works about the class and subclass system is that it gives players a pre-designed narrative for their characters, rather than asking the players to invent their own. If the game had just the flavorless Warrior / Expert / Spellcaster as their three "classes"... a player could decide that...

There's also of course the "old school" method for solving all of this... which is that you don't make a skill check to find any secret door at all. Rather, players just say they are going to search certain areas... and if there is a "secret door" in the 10'x10' section they are searching, then...

The Fighter, Rogue, and Sorcerer are the three "generic" classes as far as flavor are concerned. They don't have individual narratives for what kind of person they are... that comes out of their subclasses. But why does that actually matter? Why does it matter where their unique "identity"...

That depends on how well your dwarf player can use these revised abilities. Any ability in the game can be "too much" if the player is exceedingly creative as well as persuasive. But you won't know until you actually see the ability in play (as you did with Tremorsense.) So let the player use...