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I think I'd say that yeah Roleplayability = The ability for someone to roleplay this concept. Appeal = Your desire to roleplay this concept. Optimizing = The spectrum of how strong you make your character, in terms of the choices available. It would be weird to me to call your buddy's...

Right, for me that comes out to a preference for balanced games where most options are viable and power differentials are smaller, I would say that every character IS roleplayable though, and that largely underlies why the SF is actually a fallacy in the first place. Any character that isn't...

Huh, I wouldn't think of that as an example because both the optimized and suboptimized character generated can be 'roleplayed' as a verb, equally well, it's just a matter of which concepts the player will actually want to choose to play. Similarly, I consider the distinction between characters...

Thinking about it, some of it may actually be that we're trying to actually get past some of these things-- codifying the Oberoni fallacy telegraphs that deploying the thing it labels is a bad thing and that it's badness is settled because otherwise we wouldn't be raising it as a flag instead of...

I'd actually push back, in the sense that its not so much a conflict between the two as to whether the individual actually cares about both. Most builds in most games can be roleplayed, especially since the degree to which those mechanical elements define the character, and what they mean are...

So, mark my username, because it represents something that is very important to me-- and that's the role player-driven exploration plays in shaping and defining their own experience. In the original legend of zelda the Magic Sword (or Magical Sword) is the strongest weapon in the game but unlike...

I'm probably late to the party and I wasn't following it too closely, but they were most recently in hotwater for some repeat offenses of using photographs of native activists without their permission and not only did it happen, it then also happened in another book way after they were called...

I'm going to point out something very important: I do not argue to convince the person I am directly responding to, I argue to convince whoever the voluntary audience of the argument happens to consist of-- that can include the person who my arguments are framed as a response to, but I never...

I see it more as an eternal september, where we've just been in a long period with a continually renewing set of new players, along with the standard inertia of switching systems socially.

What do you think the impact of momentum is on the relationship between market service and sales numbers? "I don't like 5e but my group refuses to try other games" is showing up quite a bit in some spaces and "I want to play X but there's only people posting 5e games" is showing up a lot in...

I think the distinction I would draw is that DND appears to be cultivating interests in its playerbase that it doesn't really follow up on, rather than servicing a particular market well.

I'm not sure anything bears that assertion out, and I can't exactly prove a negative beyond proving the existence of people who aren't being served by it, which is self evident to anyone in the space.

That much I don't doubt, TTRPGs are hot right now and Dnd is the only household name TTRPG. My comment was more concerning playstyle preferences and unmet desire, as opposed to system selection.

Not sure, I know my experience, and with people I've discussed it with who weren't inducted by me, but I don't know enough about the tables you've played at to place them in the overall gaming ecology-- table culture is generally based on the subculture the most interested parties involved trace...

I meant more comparable to WOTC's own material, because in the grand scheme of things my content was fairly unknown.

I don't think they dislike generic per se, but I think there's a lot of attraction to the more gonzo stuff, hexblade does extraordinarily well on the basis of being very powerful and very anime. I don't think we have reliable data regardless.

Its hard to tell sometimes how much certain community beloved homebrews have penetrated, though anecdotally (again) before I switched to PF2e I had a fairly obscure centaur homebrew that was getting thousands of engagements on the various homebrew tumblr blogs and occasionally ran into players...

If I recall, I think I was counting your table (from having read many of your posts) in the categories I already exempted from the statement-- your playstyle seems to run to the lighter, older, traditional fantasy stuff, using 5e as a substitute for something like ODND, I could have gotten the...

Yeah, I mean among other things, I just had someone entirely new to the game show up to a library DND program with a character sheet for a Blood Hunter in hand, but yeah, that's anecdotal.

You can, we're already using many of the changes at my table, its a lot of errata by weight, but it's essentially just errata in the sense of streamlining rules or just reimplementing them into the existing system differently (in the case of alignment) replacing some feats, etc, nothing is...