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you say that strongly themed games are better at mechanically representing their theme than more generic games. Sure, they probably are, they certainly better be, otherwise they have no reason to exist. My point was that this does not necessarily mean that strongly themed games are better. If...

as I wrote in another post, much of that is personal preference rather than some objectively measurable improvement. I agree that OSE’s rules are clearer and better organized than Gygax’s (not that hard…). I am a lot less sure that leaning a lot more narrative, giving the players a lot more...

it can either have been dropped or passed, but even if it passed, that does not mean it will be published unchanged

and highly themed games strike out when you want to play something outside their theme, even worse than more generic games do There might be games that cover one narrow theme very well, but I don’t think I ever learned of one where I was fine with being restricted to such a narrow scope. I want...

my take is that they were resisting an implicit ‘newer is always better’ in some posts kinda like this one ;) I would disagree with ‘almost all’ just as I disagree with ‘always’. It frequently is a matter of preference, not objective improvement in an objective, measurable way

sure, just like ‘sometimes newer is better’…

I don’t think anyone argued that newer can never be better, only that it isn’t always better

LoG sounds interesting enough, but being limited to conventions definitely impacts its reach. Any idea when and how this becomes available for home play? I assume it will show up on DMsGuild for that, but not sure

it’s a sandboxy city with factions, so you certainly have some freedom wrt where to go and who to work with vs oppose

sounds like it is a conversion of their adventure, so not just a campaign frame and some guidelines

I was not disagreeing with this, I was only asking whether that class would be so fundamentally different that the overall design approach with magical features would not work for it. To me a supernatural feature and a magical feature are functionally the same, the difference is in the fiction...

ok, but doesn’t that mean they need another class, not that it cannot follow the same design approach they used for the others?

it’s a metal and stone statue, maintenance should be minimal, outside of vandalism

one page each should be enough for most of them, incidentally gets you to around 45 pages too ;)

that is just magical without using that word for it. I don’t see why in DS! you cannot say that is what your Fury character does instead of pretending that it is ‘classic magic’

unified subclass progression across classes, half-caster warlock, druid wild shape templates When all the good ideas were scrapped and only the nitpicky minor stuff was still in the running, I lost all interest in the UA, and I am not impressed with the end result either

a better clue than us, sure, certainty, no

no, you did not, but it sure sounds like they interpreted it correctly… oh, I agree, there should have been an upgrade, my problem is that I do not see 2024 as much of an upgrade and worse in some parts The big upgrades were all thrown away halfway through the playtest

it certainly is a small fraction of all players, but I doubt that the general adoption rate is that far away from the 50% mark. Not everyone that will switch has already switched and not everyone playing 2014 will switch to 2024 either

good luck with that, not sure how you think you can pressure them…