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I think there are very few people who are advocating for that level of disconnect in a TTRPG environment, even if they do prefer to have scaled challenges. If you want to play a game where the challenges stay within a certain difficulty framework, as a GM you need to frame challenges that are...

That's OK, I certainly wouldn't want to make you repeat yourself.

It's far more important that a narrative is generated than that generation of that narrative is balanced.

Militant Neutrality generally boils down to the Omelas problem, or a question of utilitarian ethics. In pursuit of a greater good, where we preserve the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people, can we justify a certain allowance of suffering and atrocity? And mostly in...

TwoSix-verse, the Great Wheel (a repost of a post I made last year found here: D&D 5E (2014) - 4E Cosmology) 1) The Great Wheel is rearranged a bit. The Outer Planes have a lot of symmetry, with planes at opposite positions being complete opposites, while the planes across from each other along...

In the TwoSix-verse, all of my D&D and D&D-adjacent games are connected in one vast multiverse, which expands in dimensions not even the gods or the philosophizers of the Fraternity of Order understand. There are thousands upon thousands of Prime world, with trillions of souls. Many of them...

Just because you weren't able to make that change doesn't change my recommendation that people should try to make that change. (And this isn't specifically about 4e, this is a broader consideration.) If you can't, you can't. If the opportunity cost for trying is too high, then no one is...

I think many more people can become appreciators of things they don't like with some effort. But it's simply that many people don't judge that change to be worth the effort. Like, I grew up as a very picky eater. It's something I still struggle with; there are a lot of foods I don't enjoy...

I mean, is the idea that your preferences can’t grow and change actually a serious response? I mean, when 4e came out, I didn’t initially like it. It was explanations on how to approach these mechanics differently on these forums (primarily from @pemerton) that taught me how to approach games...

Well, I know how fast the ogres are going, but not where they are.

As a complete tangent, I kind of want to make a statblock for "quantum ogres".

I've noticed that one of the more difficult transitions for groups going from trad/neotrad skill-check based play to a more OSR type system is dealing with the absence of skill checks to gate knowledge and perception, and moving into a "just the tell the player the info (unless it's actively...

Or you can, ya know, expand your preferences.

My only concern with the digital tools is that I'm a maximalist for homebrew when it comes to D&D; any default tool that isn't easily amenable to manual editing of the available options isn't something I want to use in my game. I want tables that are excited to look at new options from the book...

And if that was what I wanted, I would do it. :)

Just as Dr. Doom prepares to activate the machine that will release a magical mutant virus on the world.... "Ding Dong!"

I really have to thank this thread for reminding me how much I don't like the weapon mastery rules. :)

I mean, I think for a lot of people interested in these concepts, reinforcing humanocentrism is one of the points of play. I'm interested in concepts in the OSR space that try to split the difference; humans have an advantage in class versatility but other ancestries have unique advantages to...

Another idea I've tossed around is using B/X style race-as-class combined with robust AD&D style multiclassing. So if you want to be an elf, at least one of your classes must be Elf. But you can be an Elf, or an Elf/Fighter, or an Elf/Ranger/Cleric if that's your preference. Human's big...

Why railroad when you can Borg cube?