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My perspective is that I have the 5e base classes to play my 5e subclasses with, and if for some reason I someday want to play a 5.5 base class I would have the subclasses designed for those to play with them. It is enough of a constraint on design to allow these two different versions of...

Well, I would consider it unfortunate that they placed that particular unnecessary design constraint on themselves. But we'll see.

Interesting. I refuse to think about the atrocity that is the OneD&D Bard so I'm not surprised I'd have a blindspot on that front.

Agreed. The quote of mine you are responding to here was about using the subclass from the one version with the base class from the other version, not using two versions of the base class at the same table. I see no problem with using different versions of the base class at the same table as...

I guess you could if you want your game to be a clash of messy elements with no design care. It does not seem advisable. Looking just at the most recent playtest, using the new moon druid subclass with the old druid, or vice versa, would involve meshing two incompatible systems of wildshaping...

While I can imagine toxic social media commentary on this sort of thing sinking a low budget film trying to rely on word of mouth, or taking over discussion of a movie that people also hated for other reasons, as long as the expensive marketing machine keeps rolling and the movie is actually any...

The basic format of semi-bumbling comedic hero that the Chris Pine character seems to be built in the mold of goes back to ancient times. The innovation of more recent media is being more willing to put such a character as the lead of something which is not entirely a comedy, rather than making...

I am thoroughly unimpressed with OneD&D, feeling that most of it is a combination of lateral moves and downgrades from 5e designwise, and what actual improvements there are tend to be blindingly obvious hacks. Nevertheless I really don't see how it is incompatible really at all, at least at the...

I'd like to thank everyone for their input, it all certainly helped crystalize my thoughts on the subject. For anyone who's curious, I decided to name my game "Ramble On", evocative of both ongoing, episodic questing, and of a game where people sit around a table and talk for four hours. It...

Given the striking variations in environment of California, where Lucas and most of the screenwriters and production designers have been based, one has to assume that either mono-biome planets were a very conscious choice or that these folks really didn't get away from home very much. Just...

I couldn't follow either link on Firefox. They both worked for me when I copied the addresses to Chrome. I am logged in to my account on Firefox and not on Chrome, which could also be a factor somehow.

The "Forest Moon of Endor" seems a bit more improbable. But whether or not it is realistic, it is definitely a core Star Wars trope for each planet to represent a single biome. You want a change of scenery, change planets. This even includes major urban environments being planet-spanning urban...

Cloud City, however, has sensible guard rails on their windswept bottomless pit catwalk.

I've run D&D at a summer arts camp for the last few summers. There's a substantial chunk of the kids who are more interested in character creation than actually playing the game, and for most of them character creation is at least a substantial selling point of the activity. I think many people...

I mean, you don't actually need to be far. People not recognizing a royal when they take off the royal trappings and walk amongst the common people, even in their own capital, is a common literary trope, from Henry V walking amongst his troops in Shakespeare, to various outtings to Kingsport in...

Same here. I think there's probably a substantial cohort of people whose only Apple II experience was in a school computer lab. So yeah, Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail are both top tier from my perspective. They're what we were allowed to play when we finished the requisite amount of Mavis...

I don't know a lot about this setting, so I might be very off-base, but I think the reason WotC isn't going to revive it has very little to do with the lore content being too whatever or not enough whatever. It could be a setting filled with proficiency bonus worshiping Ardlings (or whatever you...

Or the stun setting on blasters, which, as demonstrated on Leia right at the beginning of the original movie, is big, wide, presumably unblockable rings. I mean there's lots of weapons that could defeat the improbable "Jedi blocks laser blast" trick. But stun is already there in universe and...

In the novels I think part of the problem is that the movies just have such exceptional visual design, that a written description of a new ship or alien can't really contend with being able to just say "Star Destroyer" or "Wookie". In the video games the issue is probably more that people want...

I want you to believe that game design is a messy process, and that many of the variant and optional rules are things they intended as standard rules at some point but that were deemed too complicated (or not up to snuff). In any case if you don't like the abilities 5e skills are softly...