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To the terrible detriment to the game, going on for almost as long as it's existed-- the game does just enough with the mechanic to get in the way, but nowhere near enough to justify its inclusion. It's not just a WotC thing, either. It started with AD&D making race and class separate decision...

Mt first two were AD&D 1E and Gamma World 2E, but damned if I could tell you which was which.

The best part is that Controller is my favorite way of being Evil, how I like to do bad things... and Healer is how I convince the other players and PCs to let me get away with it. You can get away with murder as long as you're not the one murdering your teammates and you're the one keeping...

Not a huge fan of 5e, so my interests are probably niche/limited compared to others', but there are a few things I'd really like to see. Dedicated psionics book. At least two actual psionic classes using the 2024 psionics rules, at least one psionic subclass for every core class (plus...

Level Up Advanced 5e includes more flexible racial options at 1st level and a choice of a "paragon" racial feature at 10th. Even if you don't want to jump to A5E, it's as good an investment in nonhuman PC rules as XGtE or TCoE.

Impossible or Beyond meat substitute, two patties, two slices of white American, hardwood smoked bacon between the patties, grilled pineapple slice on top, spicy banana ketchup and a horseradish/wasabi mustard. Toasted potato bun.

Sword World really is the best of all worlds, to my mind: your XP doesn't determine your class/character level, you use XP to buy class levels and your character level is equal to your highest class level, period. XP costs for class level scale by class level. If I were to tweak it any-- and I...

SSS: Sword World A: Tipsy Tabby, 3.PF with Prestige Archetypes (A+: Combine those. 🩵) B: 4e with both PHB1 and PHB3, Fabula Ultima, "simplified" AD&D (B-: Most of my own sad attempts to "fix" 3.PF.*) C: AD&D, 3.X with multiclass feats and PrC support, PF2, 5e with 3PP "multiclassing feats"...

My very first player character in AD&D was single-class. I haven't done it since. The multiclassing rules are one of the major critiera by which I judge D&D-like games.

I usually aim for healer and utility caster, as long as the system lets me do that without bothering Da Gawdz. Side of controller... PF1's Bard and Witch classes are just about perfect, or the Mesmerist. I almost always splash Soulknife, especially if I get to use the DSP rules.

No. D&D classes need to be more and narrower, not broadened even further.

Hands down, I consider Elizabeth Olson's Wanda to be the most terrifying villain in the MCU. I have a crazy pipe dream about an adaptation of TMNT on Netflix based almost entirely around casting Tom Holland as Casey; it has nothing to do with is performance any of the MCU movies, and...

I played TSR D&D-- mostly 2e and Player's Option-- when it was still current, and my favorite editions of D&D still include Player's Option and the Rules Cyclopedia. I play both "modern D&D"-- mostly PF1 and 5e-- and OSR D&D games, mostly Old School Essentials Advanced and White Star. Generally...

I believed all the press about Dafne Keen not being in the movie at all until the last trailer. They got me, and I almost didn't even go see the movie because of it. And yeah... not enough Laura, but every frame of her screen time was pitch perfect. Like, I made an exception for seeing a...

What I would really like is a full-sized expansion of the Tasha's material. More psionic subclasses and feats, rules for "high psionics" campaigns, wild talents.

Kinda hankering to play an Android, Paizo-style. Something along the lines of its Brawler and Ninja racial archetypes.

Yeah, it'd be a pretty big turnoff. Most of my favorite races are too alien to make sense on purely human mechanics. But, ruling them out? If everyone's human anyway, might as well play a human, or pretty much any planetouched or half-human. Gith race traitors, especially if I can swindle one...

Couple of big caveats before I dig into this: "Medieval" isn't actually my preferred flavor of D&D. Thread is on page 8 as of the time I'm writing this and I've only read the OP. So. Classic pseudo-medieval D&D isn't actually my preferred flavor. I do like firearms and printing presses, I...

I've been a vocal critic in the past. There's no doubt I will be a vocal critic in the future. Neither is a reason not to wish him and Chaosium the very best today, and hope for great things in the future. It's a peach of a job, Mearls; congratulations and good luck.

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