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I like the idea of being able to sense the spell resistance and deciding what to do, but in the end, it is just another form of "saving throw" (or attack roll). Is there really a benefit from adding that extra layer? Why couldn't the enemy's defense or saving throw just be higher, isn't the end...

No, I am not saying a stun spell doesn't stun. I am saying the condition stun could be a condition where you can still do things. Maybe not all of them, or only for a price. Maybe you cannot do the fancy cool stuff, like reactions, bonus actions, casting non-cantrips and making multi-attacks...

The outcome of a save is binary, but a saving throw "ability" more than bad or good. That's just 5E's approach because it only has proficient or not proficient by default. You could easily have 3 steps, bad, moderate and strong. And if your game had conceptual design space for monsters that...

I don't agree that they should stick with 6 saves. I think having so many is particularly a reason why it is so difficult to target them equally in frequency or power, there is too much to go around, and the thematic differentiation isn't really clear. And it's perfectly fine if a party has the...

Yeah, but it was an observation that I also made in the post you quoted, so I suspected that you might not have completed reading it.

Keep reading my post, then you'll know what I believe. The answer might surprise you!

My first RPG experience I made when I was around 18 or 19, and my first game was Shadowrun 3E. Shadowrun is as setting mixing cyberpunk and fantasy. It has no classes or levels, you just equipped gear - perhaps cyberware and learned different skills. In that edition, every character had 10...

Dungeons & Dragons 3E. It was a silly game, it had a video-gamey hit point mechanic - they even rise with levels (did I mention this is so videogamey yet?), so they don't seem to represent wounds like in a proper roleplaying game, basically entirely nonsensical and unimmersive. And the spells...

In case he is an unwilling Nightmare, and you still want to avoid a solo combat against a single Nightmare, consider giving him some nightmare or (were)-friends that are attracted by his appearance and protect him. If it's a curse, maybe the Nightmares seek to make the effect permanent. Maybe...

I don't know what numbers there are too crunch, are there rules for creating custom were-creatures? I'd say the idea might have some merit. Though: Is lycantrophy really "needed" here? I assume there are rules for dealing with lycantrophy, but maybe it would work just as well if it's a unique...

I don't really know enough about Star Wars d6 to give any specific rules advice. Are you required to decide which skill to use? Maybe the player simply uses the better one - the smart guy is doing stuff to help his body deal with the vacuum better, the Wookie just has better endurance? Exposure...

Warhammer 3E really had a system with basically cooldown markers, 4E just basically used something like I think Magic with tapped/untapped. But in general cards are useful if game abilities can be condensed and be treated isolated, based on something like a template - like D&D spells since...

They kept the name from 4E, they didn't change! It's not like 5E and 4E were developed in parallel!

Thunder or Radiant were interestingly 4E names, thunder being sonic damage in 3E, and the closest to radiant probably being positive energy damage (without the healing connotations positive energy had in 3E). I liked that 4E used some less scientific sounding names for them. (In turn, 4E didn't...

An Arcana Evolved/Diamond Throne campaign. A Night's Black Agents Campaign. A 12 Colonies campaign with alternate history, mixing some of the original and new Battlestar Galactica law. The first Cylon War didn't happen, because they found an ancient barge from Kobol, reawakening the 12 Lords of...

I dunno, considering how we used to allow smoking everywhere once, and a popular image* of the dame fatale is the one with those long cigarette-thingies, maybe smelling like smoke isn't that much of a turn-off. *) Admittedly, it is an image, we still don't have smellovision TV or cinema (or at...

Interestingly, the not-drunken-anymore-warrior class, if it really gets special potions, would work really well as a Witcher, since potions are in their wheelhouse. But I guess you need a multi-sub-class Monk to also get Signs.

I must say, I notice when my character fails an attack roll by 1. You just roll attacks very often, and of course I'll usually miss by more than just 1. But it is something noticeable. I tend to agree, the big stat bonus should match your class, because that's what you are likely going to do...

Sure, but you can definitely exaggerate for what kind of proof you require in a casual discussion about RPGs. Asking for the exact quote including a direct link to the interview or forum post or whatever feels pretty much like that, at some point it's okay to settle for what you got and move on...

I do not really feel qualified for running such a game well, and I suspect no one in any of my groups felt like that, either. shrugs