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You see, OSR fans would argue both 5e and Pathfinder have broken core rules engine because if it was well designed, you could apply it to all situations and wouldn't need separate rules for every minutia. By these standards 5e is crunch heavy with unnecessary things like "how to hold your breath"

I once again recommend the video, as it adresses both your points.

For the love of god, try games that aren't 5e or Pathfinder

That's why I've said "as written". I'm sure this was designed by people who hold the mindsets that doesn't do reflavoring (the recent feat allowing you use deck of cards as spellcasting focus from Book of Many Things is another good example) and also thinks Fighter and Barbarian and Monk are just "guys at the gym". Sadly same sentiments were in WotC since 3rd edition, hence why options martial should get were all given cringy anime names and relegated to new classes and explicit called magic by the text.

Back in reddit days this community made it very clear that Rangers are casters to them, up to having memes about it.

Nah, a lot of the anime are having their own magic systems - chakra, nen, stands, pacts. It's common to sometimes make mundane look like supernatural (Demon Slayer), but generally if someone teleports most anime would qualify that as a magic use.

While I agree with the Steel Wind Strike being an insult to put on a wizard and none of the martial classes, this is a bad argument because pretty much every anime swordsman who would pull out a shit like Steel Wind Strike as it is written, is explicit supernatural. I get your sentiment but this is a very flawed, easy to dismantle argument.

My last session the party spent 3 out of 4 hours of the session sitting down to discuss their various issues that accumullated over the course of the campaign. It was nice, I had very little to do and enjoyed their roleplay.

GDPR?

Masquera, Anniversarry Edition.

Wasn't even thinking of it in terms of "sticking it to them", more "I still have friends who will play new edition, may as well say what will fuck it up for people like me if I cannot leave".

I literally had a session of Vampire yesterday

Ulrich von Scheise would be Ulrich of Shit. Umlaut is those two dots put above German-specific letters.

The DM is very in touch with his inner child.

Honestly, I don't mind people who hack 5e as long as they're upfront about it (as in, don't invite you for Cyberpunk game only to reveal it's a 5e Cyberpunk hack at character creation). This is a way some people express their creativity. It's kinda like how despite there being other games at the time, hundreds if not thousands game devs started from designing levels for Doom or hacking Doom or converting Doom to new platform. It's now happenning with Skyrim.

A lot of RPGs started as d&d hacks - Runequest, which lead to Call of Cthulhu, started as "what if we only ruled d10's in d&d". Tunnels & Trolls exists because creator read d&d book and decided to hack the rules to be more for his liking. Warhammer exists because Games Workshop needed a replacement game when losing rights to publish d&d in Britain. Pathfinder is a similiar story, it was just d&d 3.55 (and sucked just like 3.5) before 2nd Edition.

"2 pages of rules" 400-pages FATE rulebook next to me: Am I a joke to you?

you should just use actual names of the games, there are so many layers of jokes here they get in each other's way

All serious tho, one of ideas I know I will never be able to do is to play the same Paladin in 3 succesful campaigns in one setting, first as Oath of Conquest, then Oathbreaker, then Oath of Redemption. I first it's a better growth if there is a transition phase before adopting the Redeption.

Because the comic is a strawman argument.

The thing is, Rime has it's problems. I do not think a slight moment of levity and comic relief is one of them.