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There are folks in this very thread not using it that way.

I think 3 books could pretty much cover the SW Universe, assuming you were given tools to easily model things not in the books. Games don't actually need the supplement treadmill.

I am not sure I understand your confusion. The system insentivies, not demands. If some theoretical player decides to nerf themselves by not picking up the acid splash spellbook because they think of themselves as a barbarian, well that's player agency I guess.

That's part of the point: there is no singular definition.

Isn't it full of mandatory cut scenes and mandatory slow-ass subsystems like hunting and making camp and stuff?

Here's that definition thing again. If you only use "railroad" pejoratively, then sure.

I don't think having freedom to solve situations creatively makes a linear game not linear.

I played the original many moons ago. (Or, first one I guess, because wasn't there another Red Dead game before Redemption? Anyway...)

I do agree that folks will reforge DH into many things (I am running a aetherpunk supers game now and making notes about what I would do to turn DH into a legit supers game). But it is going to require a lot of work. Classes and Domains and deply interconnected mechanics, and folks who think...

This is where the "which source material" question really matters. In the OT, Vader WAS more powerful than everyone else, and Luke, by the end, went toe to toe with him. You can't be true to that source material without embracing jedi as special and more powerful.

I am still having trouble finding the right game. I need something with a short, fun play loop that is also wide open. My personal Platonic Ideal here is Skyrim/Fallout4, but i have played them both to death. I was very sad that Starfield was not that same experience, and as much as Elden Ring...

Who cares? I don't mean that to threadcrap. I'm serious. What difference does it make to YOU how many "fans" D&D "has"? I mean, if you are arguing one way or the other, the answer must matter to you, right? For my part, only one thing matters: more active customers (whatever portion of the...

Boromir? Every Anglo Saxon hero ever?

Point of order: the Outer Room is run down and "lived in." The Galactic Core has always been Shiny, and the Empire obviously likes it that way.

And now HR is involved.

Very cool. Thank you.

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How much work do you do to turn the average Paizo AP into something playable? Because in my experience, even when they are good, they are NOT written or designed to actually be used at the table.

Was it? How would we know?

This whole post x10. Many folks run effective campaigns with published WotC modules, but even so they end up fighting the thing more than using it. This is a problem with any published campaign, of course, because your table is your table. But both WotC and Paizo campaign length adventures bury...