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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

But the player chose the concept and assigned the stats, so presumably they assigned them so that they match the concept and if they...

I mean, my general expectation (and what I do for my own 5e characters) is that a low stat (generally anything at <=7) will have some...

I have no problem with non-physical stats mattering, and, the way I play, they do, but I think enforcing certain decisions by the...

Nothing so grand. You just treat other people's preferences and interpretation a little differently than you do your own. Just an...

See, this is exactly what I mean. You have a very specific idea of what stats mean, and now that it's your opinion and not someone...

What do you think "to me" means?

It's one reason I try to make a habit of NOT learning what the other players' stats are if at all possible. (Granted, you'll usually...

Right, so your viewpoint is just as subjective as mine. Except I was clear about that.

1st level is a game construct, not part of the world. There is no reason to suppose a 3rd level character was ever 1st. It doesn't...

I have, and I have mixed feelings about it. First of all, I strongly prefer @mearls’ Greyhawk Initiative from an old Unearthed Arcana...

See, this is exactly what I mean. You have a very specific idea of what stats mean, and now that it's your opinion and not someone...

It depends on how it’s implemented. I mean, taking D&D as an easy example, I’ve seen people who consider an Intelligence of 8 as being...

Of course I do. Everything I say is my opinion, and I try very hard to make that clear in writing, even though in my experience a lot of...