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I think you misunderstand the poster. If you dislike something, often its just a growing sense of "ugh, this sucks." When someone asks why you feel the thing sucks, you have to come up with an explanation (aka reason) for why you think it sucks. Maybe at the time you were aware of what bothered...

The mechanics were usually point based, rather than slot based. Powers often scaled: spend more points, get more oomph. I felt 2e psionics were less powerful than casters but psi powers had no V/S/M components so they could be subtle, though there were sensory effects that could still give a...

I once had a group of 13th-ish level PCs in a 3e game nearly get wiped out by 1hd herbivores. They were in a savanna near a water hole at dusk. The rogue sees a large ox-thing & throws a thunder stone. The ox takes off at a lumbering trot away from the water. For some reason the explosion...

That's an illusion. Those aren't PC odds, those are "typical" people odds for checks performed under "typical" circumstances able to take a "typical" amount of time. PCs are atypical people in atypical circumstances trying to do atypical things where modifiers abound (improvised tools, rushed...

As someone who loves earthdawn, roll under sets a finite bounding box on the level of success. ED rejects the notion of impossibility and allows a toddler to poke a dragon's eye out with a well-thrown pacifier. It's a game with success levels & rerolling dice that max, meaning I have a...

I think a question is a class exclusive? I.e. a Fighter is not the only ones who fights. Barbarians, Paladins and Rangers all fight, so how specific do the classes need to be? Is a Farmer the only one who farms? Should it be? How tight is Class to role? E.g. in 3e terms, the Commoner...

In our games, the most notable moments aren't in combat. We have entire sessions without attack rolls. (And then we attack a series of fortifications that takes 7 sessions of combat so in all things there is balance.) Do those sessions count for nothing in your games? How does the Peace...

The big NPC change in 3e, IMO, was not giving classes to NPCs (as the 1e/2e modules were full of that) it was that they added less-special NPC classes. It was a way of differentiating an "average" person from an "elite" one, even if if they have similar experiences. Imagine a young lordling...

Pretty sure I had a ton of official 1e and 2e modules full of level X Fighters and Yth level Rogues. There is an advantage to that as it is also a shorthand to the GM. If the adventure is for PCs level 6-8 and there is a 2nd level Wizard, the wizard isn't expected to be impressive, but a...

Back in the 90s I was in a "blue book" champions game (3e?) and having to apply FOIL math rules to generate a character felt way too much like my engineering classes to be fun. The slimmed down fuzion champions had the multi-powers and secret identities and all those champions-ish superhero...

I was fond of 3e where everyone had a class. Not just because of that but because they also had demographics. Pick up any classless/point buy system and you almost always have archetypes or skill thresholds that show various levels of competency. A police officer with +3 firearms vs a sniper...

D&d evolved from miniature warfare (napoleon, iirc). They named the characters, added magic, hirelings, followers, crafting and even some level of investing. Then they published it as D&D. Each edition has had varying levels of non-combat. Over the last 3 decades, 3e had hyper-granular...

Games I have tried other than my standard d20/shadowrun/earthdawn: The Coyote & Crow system encourages multiple approaches overcome challenges which I like but it felt like a table-top version of a "quick time event" from a video game in the pre-made adventure. I need to revisit it to see if...

I wouldn't put Adobe or MS in the good books. MS is a huge funder of OpenAI behind the scenes and has access to GPT tech so they are benefiting from OpenAI larcenous training approach in some fashion. No telling what shenanigans they have around Dall-E. Adobe didn't tell its Adobe Stock...

Earthdawn sort of does that. It's literally every AD&D trope manifested in game, with a somewhat rational reason why, down to the number of monster-filled dungeons. PCs are Adepts, which have Circles of advancement (levels). All special abilities are Talents and one of the Talents is...

It's not the quality. It's that it's trained on other artists work who didn't consent and aren't getting paid. What if in six months a digital artist decides to make their own monster & npc art but have ChatGPT mkUltra6 generate a TTRPG that is a mix of Japan and medieval Europe with an...

One other aspect is bias. Everything has bias because no random number generator is perfect. Most dice are imperfect and do not have a perfect distribution curve after a million rolls, but they are usually close enough. But some dice are really badly weighted or have some kind of damage or...

I was interested until I saw the art was by Midjourney AI. Use public domain art from the 1600s and add a stretch goal of "hire an artist"

I didn't like it because it's at odds with "roll high" method of combat.

I was part of the tech bubble in the 90s (yep, I'm that old). Pay attention to what companies say and do, that's them telling you who they are and how they behave. Did they say one thing on Monday and do something else on Tuesday? Do you hear them saying different things to different audiences...