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And this is a textbook response for someone who has missed a quarter of a century of narrative game development. Seriously "rules that don't get in the way" was the state of narrative systems round the turn of the millennium when Ron Edwards wrote his GNS essays that were an attempt to get...

And a good MC does not have a hard coded world the PCs are plopped into like isikai'd interlopers but has a setting of which the PCs are a part and that thematically reflects that. Different games and tables have different assumptions and Daggerheart has neither the extreme of an old school DM...

What next? Threat or Menace headlines? I'm genuinely serious. One of the big strengths oD&D and to a lesser extent 1e had was that Gygax & Co. playtested the hell out of it - and playtested it with the intent to break it. I think that basically nothing in the RPG world before at least the mid...

It's how it looks because the cleric plays support. But when someone hits the fighter and the cleric heals them although the durability looks as if it came from the fighter it's actually the cleric dealing with the hp loss that lets them keep going. And the cleric can wear just as much armour...

Possibly - but it's also true. The bard, if they get there, has all the advantages listed for the fighter except some armour. They get full use of stats. They get multi attack. And they have actively more hp than a fighter as bardic hit dice stack with fighter hit dice. And they have thief...

Except when the rubber met the road that didn't matter much. Clerics had almost as many hit points, had as much armour, and could heal. Unless it was a one shot situation or L1 the Cleric was tougher. Or slightly less than 2% of fighters could close the gap on clerics a bit For characters who...

This is not actually quite true. If you look at I think Vitality (Blade 5 anyway) you have a domain card that has its effect then goes into your Vault permanently. It doesn't technically expand your loadout - but does have its effect without being in your loadout. And one thing that makes...

You say "could be", I say "is". Seriously, it's basically just lacking TV and movies these days - which are the obvious parts of multimedia but not the only parts. Books. Black Library is pretty huge as single IP publishing houses go. It's definitely a player alongside D&D novels, Star Wars...

My takes: Gladiator fighter is, as already pointed out, a wannabe Battle master Preserver druid. Thanks, I hate it mechanically. A class with (a) easy access to regenerating temp hp and (b) gets the party to stay in one spot may be strong but will make combat even sloggier Defiler Sorcerer. I...

I agree. It all seemed soulless somehow. As if a writer was being paid by the spell for content with no trace of underlying enthusiasm for creating spells, and a fear of breaking the game. My conspiracy theorists brain is saying "almost all human trying to look like a new LLM"

I've been running some variant of Popcorn Initiative for a while - with each character to act deciding who goes next who hasn't been that round. And use a two sided turn tracker, flipping each character when they go.

Wrong angle. I've a maths degree

Enjoy not being able to count beyond ten without taking your boots off while the Babylonians could count to 12 on one hand and 60 with both. (They used the fingers of the other hand for 12s). Counting to ten on your fingers is simply the most basic way you can do it and where you start varies...

You've a lot of work to do. Shadowrun started as "Cyberpunk D&D" so I don't see why not but you've a lot of work for the adaption. And last I heard they were planning on kickstarting Plotweaver as a distinct entity from Cosmere at the end of 2026 so it's not there yet. I'm actually going to...

It's laughably wrong to say Daggerheart didn't click with you? Because that was one of the choices I gave. But seriously most of your list of tastes are reasons I wouldn't consider you to be in the right headspace for Daggerheart. Fundamentally it's designed to be the game that streamers like...

There's some quick start material and an online character creator on Demiplane. Quick version is it's mostly the Genysis (Star Wars FFG with custom dice) RPG on a d20 chassis

I notice a common theme here. You're dissatisfied by D&D. But there is barely one single reason to try Cosmere ahead of about ten thousand other systems, most of which aren't trying to be D&D. It's all about what's wrong with other things. Indeed. No one is trying to sell you personally on...

Warhammer has more hooks than velcro and incredible visual design. You can basically look at any character to see what their deal is and the settings are both broad enough that there will be something you find incredibly cool and big enough that the metaplot is happening over there - and not...

The thing is what "small math" is and what numbers people use in games are both person specific. There are people for whom 11+12 is starting to push out of small math (and anything over 10 is). And there are people who work out probabilities in decimals. d6 is a special case because it's the...

How we count on our fingers is however cultural (I'm reminded of the ordering three beers scene in Inglorious Basterds) and base 12 societies realise we have either twelve bones or twelve joints in the fingers of one hand - and we can use the thumb to track where we are.