Recent content by TwoSix

I mean, talking with other people who DO think about it is why I post here.

No joke, I'd love a 6e that was just 5e but everyone is a Warlock.

I like DCC RPG quite a bit, but there's nothing about that glorious mess of a tome that makes me think "less exhausting". :)

Since you seem to be most comfortable with D&D like fantasy, why not switch to something in the OSR area? Something modern and clean, like Shadowdark or Knave?

There's a gradient. You can have "Make a DC 10 check or your spell fizzles" all the way up to "Roll on the d10000 wild surge table everytime you try a spell".

Wasn't that the whole point of 4e? :)

I think it's difficult to avoid "the chicken or the egg" problem, or determining what the confounding issues are, with this sort of analysis (not that it isn't worth analyzing!). Like, I didn't finish a single campaign in my first 20 years of playing. Is that because I don't like long...

Thinking about it a little more, I would be wary of combining "methodologies/play types" onto exact fictional elements. A player might hate randomness but also hate playing divine tropes, or any type of cleric/divine character. I think there's three broad types of magic "play types" that...

One of my favorite old threads (but not here), where someone takes an entire Monster Manual and attempts to classify it taxonomically. https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/necro-where-i-infer-the-phylogenetic-tree-of-the-monster-manual.680742/

The majority of my tables have rotating DMs, so we usually run our game for a year or two, finish up the main plot, and then it's someone else's turn. The only game I've had in the past 10 years that didn't finish (outside the current ongoing ones) was one where my friend had to step down from...

As an example, let’s say the party was entering a major city to meet with the duke. A major city probably has guards at the gate. Just because those guards are there doesn’t mean the DM is required to have a roleplaying scene including them. This is controversial precisely because those sort...

Depends. If the wizard has 5,000 possible spells to receive, but might only get to pick from 200 of those 5000 based on their initial concept (as per the example in post 183), I can certainly see some FOMO getting involved there.

I'm fine with that for some caster classes, but not all. Some people have strong preferences for reliability and control that should also be catered to. An ideal D&D design, for me, recognizes that a lot of different psychological types come to the table for D&D, and uses exception-based...

You could argue that, but I've also seen it argued that it's the closest thing we have to an AEDU 4e structure in 5e. I lean towards the Warlock being one of the better design evolutions in 5e, myself, and wish Pact Magic was the standard casting paradigm.

I can't speak for @Hussar, but I would (and have done this in the past) bail out of the game. I wouldn't do this in my current groups because we're all friends, but in earlier years where I've played with mostly acquaintances, I've absolutely dropped games where the sessions were almost...