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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 8969436" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Yeah, it was all Warlock play at Caltech  for me, a mix of Warlock and TSR versions in high-school groups. I was at Caltech for Friday and Saturday evening sessions, which were probably bigger and more innately disorderly than others. For groups that large, something caller-like genuinely makes sense.As someone who wrote professionally for Daedalus, White Wolf, and Evil Hat, I’m zoomed out that Warlock looks exactly like D&D to me - percentile skills and mana points that produce the same results as spell slots are not significant differences to me. Dungeon crawling with Feng Shui, Wraith, or Fate Accelerated, THAT would be different. (Okay, yes, 5e vs either Warlock, BD&D, AD&D, or Shadowdark feels different, too. I’m not completely oblivious. Just mostly,)I’m sure that many differences in our experiences come from me being a painfully shy and awkward mid-teenager attending occasionally and you being a few years older, among more peers. Like, claiming a higher leveled character at a different table genuinely never occurred to me, bring awed/intimidated by the DMs.</blockquote>