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Why does everyone always think DMs drive Fiats? Its biased I tell yah... 😉

I present to you....the Athar. Mimir net - Athar

Most recent...supporting material for my campaign's Runemaster's. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/423108/master-class-runecaster-5e

I had forgotten that!

Sure, thats valid. We had however reached the stage where we wanted more control over our builds and party composition. Better/Worse playstyle? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, I've been in that era. Started a new group of players and both fighters showed up with double ought STR. Legit rolled they said. I mean, I think AD&D "begging" for high scores is why we went with 4d6, so yeah, there was some "cheating". After watching a guy try to qualify for paladin...

4d6, drop the lowest. Always rolled in front of the group.

While I understand the points you make.... what if the dominance of D&D is just because people like it and have fun? Checkers players don't consider chess players arrogant (okay bad example, lol).

Hence why (although its an interesting topic) I keep the NPCs in the world very very low level.

Quoted for truth and saying netter than i did... Aye, I blame the devil rum...

3.5 and such "were" good toolkits. Until they grew so bloated and had so many modifiers it took 20 minutes to calculate your attack roll (I kid, I kid). Its my opinion that 5e brought all the way back around the circle to the toolkit format. Now before you say anything.... WotC is not...

But most of us (although "I" know my history) aren't trying to recreate actual specific periods. I think it was in this thread that I mention it, we take a period of history, find some other stuff we like, put it in the campaign bowl and mix it all up. Its just a game.

I liked it a lot, but sadly never got to run a campaign with it (yet).

I was there, I can validate.

It's always been an amalgamation. A pick and choose, a cornucopia! In other words, those who claim its set in a specific "setting" have only been correct for the game in which they played. Each edition may (like you say) have had a flavor, but even that flavor was a mixture of ideas and cool...

I see what you did there...

For context, research how fireballs expanded in AD&D, and Lightning Bolts bounced.

I separate the concept of warlocks away from the paladins and clerics. Clerics and Paladins: ongoing flow of power (to an extent) Warlocks: trades, no take backs. This give the warlock more of the "gaining knowledge and eldritch secrets" vibe that I like them to have. And in this situation...

Agreed 100%. I always looked at Tucker's Kobolds as utilizing what they had cleverly. I will have to re read the story in case i missed unfair advantages such as you point out.

Brom's still alround...so theoretically....