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I can try understand the reason because somebody may feel unconfortable with the threat of the slavery but in the Western civilitation...

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

The Golf Bag is definitely worse for sure but there's a sameyness that seems to happen especially when PCs end up being overspecialized...

Hang on - so you're saying that it is disparaging to be compared to girls playing princess? But not boys playing cops and robbers? Or...

IIRC, some time ago, Evil Hat announced that they were moving away from FATE and toward PbtA and FitD.

This is a good point. In my 5E-ized Desert of Desolation campaign, I made undead and certain other foes vulnerable to Radiant. However...

One question a designer should ask is does a mechanic make the game more fun, just add complexity or worse, sideline one or more players...

I've never found discussions of "fun" particularly useful or relevant. It's clearly something people can get from games, but isn't...

Irony is ironic. Complaining about responses to a post that was jumping into a conversation that apparently you were not bothering to...

As in "fit for purpose". The character must be able to meaningfully engage in the conflict that is arising across a moral line. Just as...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers...

I always point to, and try to use, 13th Age's Flee/Retreat rule. From their (new) second edition draft: From 13A 1e:

Your honour, I didn't kill them. I just introduced a substance into their food, which - when they ingested it - disrupted some cell...