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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaltab" data-source="post: 9580538" data-attributes="member: 6775806">There's a lot about 2E that I just find bass-ackwards and obtuse*, at least in the core books. I really like the settings they did for it, but 5E feels like what 3E might have been if it had been designed by people who didn't think 'ivory tower' game design was a good idea for a TTRPG.*Particularly:- The insistence on using gendered language for player character features to the point that there's a super defensive aside about it in the intro. Granted, this continued on in to 3E, just with the pronouns alternating, but in 2E combined with the art being almost entirely male characters it really just comes across as though the core rulebook fears getting cooties. There's nothing wrong with using the word 'you'.- The bizarre categorical restrictions. Dwarves can't cast Arcane magic, some races can't advance or even take certain classes. It's very arbitrary.It's why I would like to see a good 2E retroclone.</blockquote>