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flames of the meta-dragon confirmed the most isekai of all ttrpgs, every party member can be isekaid from a different game system

I feel the same way about ogres and giants

I ended up making the "elite/boss" equivalent monster categories in AFN size-based for that reason; things that are twenty feet tall should not be something that you walk up to and stab to death without thinking about it

I don't think there's anything wrong with big chunky books that deserve their length (that's my favorite), but I agree with the original post that it's an issue if a book that should only be 100 pages or so feels the need to stretch and add filler until it's 300 pages for it to be taken seriously

I'm giving myself a hard cap of 150 pages for Against the Fall of Night

the final book will not be above 150 pages, no matter what (I don't think I'm even going to hit that tbh but it definitely won't be above)

ok but both 'lobster accountants' and 'your character is a series of nested flowcharts' sound like solid game ideas (I've actually had the combat as flowchart idea, instead of tracking resources, you just put a marker on your flowchart to identify your available future actions)

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interesting concept; an isekai ttrpg where the hero's power is knowledge of the broken-ass rules that govern the world

expressed entirely through the player's actual system mastery of the broken-ass ttrpg you're all playing

finally, a use case for anima: beyond fantasy

yeah I'd say they both happen often enough for me that I can't say it's usually one or the other; it might not be exactly 50/50, but it's 'both are very common idk numbers'.

ironically, my current is the opposite of yours; my campaign pitch file is all ideas that I had and then found a system for

I feel pretty confident I went at least that long between releases at some point and I never stopped calling myself a designer

The first character I ever played was a half-elf cleric/mage, which in retrospect wasn't a great choice for a first character but fortunately it was a one-shot so I was only confused for one session.

I play everything these days, but my inner core is a wizard.

it might also be some definition 2 bullshit that they spent hours arguing with the writer about, the writer refused to budge, and they were like UG fine

Big fan of WWN overall. I think it does a good job splitting the difference between modern character customization and old-school simplicity.

it has a few things to quibble about but it has a lot of strengths to go with the quibbles, I liked it enough to write a 3pp supplement for it

I only caught the edges of it but I think some people were arguing about definitions, and other people instead of arguing are pointing out that any definition is only as good as the way you use it anyway