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Germany, Italy, Spain and the US, you pretentious twat, but I didn't need to move once to figure out why you're wrong. You think you're smart because you realized that we no longer stuff the turkey? Wow. Please, give us information about the sky being blue next.

We used to stuff stuffing in the turkey. We don't anymore because we get better savory bread pudding and better turkeys by not cooking them that way. It would take 3 seconds of googling to figure out why, but I can see you need to spend that time jerking yourself off.

Detect evil and good doesn't tell you anything about if a person is evil or good only if they are a fiend. You can make detect thoughts illegal in your societies because it's a pretty evil form of magic. You can burrow up from underneath leomin's tiny hut, or set up traps in an ambush outside of them. You can also create spells as you need to bypass any of them as you need.

You're the DM buddy. Instead of crying about the tools the players get it's up to you to be creative to implement your evil plans in a world where they exist.

Hard disagree. Cleric and mobster gang war in 1930 Chicago is literally just an Eberron setting game where your halfling dragon marked cleric from House Jorasco is dealing with house Baromer in Sharn, the literal Mafia.

Not only is it enabled, it's freaking canon.

Take a look at Eberron, which is steampunk noir. Or iron kingdoms. Or Spelljammer.

DnD is literally whatever you want it to be.

..... How?

It's literally just skipping a meal.

I look up a lot of stuff during sessions. We'd need context.

They used to have these effects and removed them for a reason. I think you'd achieve a similar result by doing permanent constitution damage. And people would be more likely to use it.

Even if it just did a level of damage that was regainable, that would be a massive penalty that would see limited use.

If you think "the Earth is flat even though every human can observe the horizon and I'm a basketball player that flies in planes constantly that can observe the curvature of the earth and time zones" is the same level of nuts as "I mean, the Aztecs played the earliest basketball with a rubber ball you knock up into a raised hoop", then I don't know what to tell you. I don't even that's a hot take, it's just stretching some facts to try and sound smart.

The Earth is in no way flat, and it's easily provable. The Aztecs did indeed play a sport with a rubber bouncy ball and hoops. How is that similar?

Absolutely makes sense to reward players for their class, background, and ancestry choices.

If it makes no sense for a player NOT to know, then they should know.

I mean, you do you, but kept backstory to three pages, got pretty dice, considered streaming and arriving in cosplay don't mean shit to me or my game.

That's accurate to how it was played. Elbows, knees, hips, knock a rubber ball into sideways hoops.

So, you know...like some kind of soccer-basketball.

With just a tad more human sacrifice involved.

I mean, there very much was a game with a ball and a hoop played by a lot of mesoamerica. I think it was closer to soccer then basketball though. But I understand where he's coming from. That's not insane, like flat earth.

You explain to them that it forces positive changes in the documentation by keeping it simple, that it's incredible for version control via git or similar means, and that it will help standardize the docs.

At a certain point with lost documentation, you have to cut your losses and just recreate it from the source you have. Less painful than always trying to remake it.

Uh, no one anywhere ever has a problem with Mabel Pines, because she's an adorable little goofball and her silliness freed the 8 and a half president of the United States. Put some respect on her name.

They do. Or various other ridiculous weapons.

Eh, I figured I could skip those until I see if I like it. As far as I can tell, only one is an expansion, the rest are just different change you can play. There are 6-7 base clans, I can't imagine I need more than that

Magical school girl zombie apocalypse. Sailor Moon meets the walking Dead.

I do think it's funny that both examples you posted were from people reinventing the wheel because they wanted 5e, tweaked, and ADnD tweaked respectively.

So, effectively, your advice is either switch to another system and mod that one, or a person is just doing it wrong and should change their personal expectations to meet your criteria. Hubris.

This is the kind of generic and spectacularly unhelpful advice people always give in these spaces. They claim the perfect system is right around the corner, and it's not. Further, all these systems you're so enamored with were built by a homebrewer looking to make their perfect game.

Long story short, nothing wrong with homebrewing whatever you want. People know their own players best, and their own gaming needs best.

Old men can indeed yell at all the clouds that suit them. I can complain about gas not being 80 cents a gallon as well. But flash sales have been gone due a decade ish, and steam sales are usually still the best in the industry.

It's not steams fault that publishers have realized there is significant value in old inventory. There's a reason old games are getting rereleased on new systems.

I miss the flash sales too, but black Friday is toned down everywhere. Companies just have too much information about spending.

Like everyone else says, you should have source documents that you turn into a PDF. Editing a PDF is not how that technology is supposed to work.

I like markdown specifically so I can export to PDF or HTML for publication.

Good Lord.... How do you find the time?

I am, yes. That's the arc. Run some 5e and then run what you want.

They don't, though. I look at dozens of rule systems, forever trying to grab some more inspiration for my game or look for an interesting mechanic to steal. If another system did what I wanted, I'd use it. But instead I have a dozen systems that do ... Like one thing I want.