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But most of their abilities are about supporting their allies. Even when they deign to hit someone themselves, they do so as a way to buff their allies. To me, flavor matters. Particularly in Draw Steel, where the classes have such strong class fantasies at their core. Trying to force one class...

Tell that to John Sheridan.

Only D&D I'm playing at the moment is a 5.0 campaign that runs once every one to two months. Other than that, my main group that meets more-or-less weekly is currently playing an East Texas University/Savage Worlds campaign that I'm running, before we took a break from the GURPS time traveling...

They're really not. The kind of class I'm envisioning does not have force fields protecting them from level 1, or the ability to pull their opponents through themselves and punching them away. The supernatural stuff comes at higher levels when they need it to do the kind of weird stuff other...

Because If I'm playing an enlightened swordmaster, I don't want the sword to be a prop. I want the sword (or axe, or bow, or whatever) to be an inherent part of what I'm doing. It's also against the core ethos of the Null class: "You require no weapons, no tools. You suffice." The Null is also...

I played 2e quite a bit, but I was never really happy with it, and kept trying to fix it with various house rules and rules expansions. I loved Dark Sun and played that quite a bit, and still consider 2e psionics to be the target to aim for flavor-wise (though not necessarily mechanically), but...

I don't know about y'all, but if I'm playing a wizard it's because I want to cast spells. Also, if you want to go OG, staffs are for amateurs. Daggers are where it's at: can be used both in melee and at (admittedly short) range, and when thrown you can make two attacks per round.

They definitely did.

Like I've said, I'm perfectly fine with higher-level features being supernatural of some variety (though I think flavor-wise, "psionics" fits better than "magic" for something based in enlightened discipline). I'm thinking something halfway between the Fury and the Null: about as much...

Covering that archetype does need another class, because none of the existing ones cover it. Draw Steel is a game where classes matter a whole lot – they are fundamental to your character, not just a shopping list of abilities like in e.g. Fabula Ultima. I like this, because it means each class...

Because the Fury doesn't have that kind of powers. Does Li Mu Bai strike you as a character fueled by rage, throwing people through walls right and left?

Goddamit, you made me go look things up. From Wikipedia: "In August 1995, WotC released Everway before closing its RPG product line four months later." Four months later would be December 1995. "Wizards of the Coast announced the purchase of TSR, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons, on April 10...

That is part of the premise, yes. "Could we survive eating only humans?"

Seems like a legit author at least. Author doesn't have a wikipedia page but there is an interview that's a few years old.

The most likely source would be records of battles as well as what loadouts archers had in battle (if a standard loadout includes one extra string, that's a "sometimes bleep happens" insurance, but if it includes three that indicates that strings breaking is expected). As for how many would snap...

It's possible he took it as a parting gift – I have a vague memory of a press release saying he bought it off them at some later point, but I can't be hedgehogged to look for it. I could be confusing it with the announcement of the rerelease on DTRPG. The relevant bit is that Wizards kept it in...

They sold the others off some time before acquiring TSR. I can't be hedgehogged to look up the actual date, but there was definitely a gap of like a year or two where Wizards didn't publish any RPGs at all. Basically their beancounters told them "Why are you spending money on these products that...

Well, they've clearly done some cross-pollination with MtG settings getting D&D sourcebooks and a few Magic sets being based on D&D, so they're not as opposed to doing it as they were back then. I think the success of Universes Beyond* sets probably showed them that there's little commercial...

I know Ryan Dancey talked back in the day about how if you have the #1 properties in different categories (like how D&D is the #1 RPG and MtG is the #1 CCG), there's little point to transferring over one property to the other category. Something about competing with yourself and running the risk...