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I solve the problem by making gnomes very fey-like (magical and tricksy and whimsical, living in secluded communities in exotic locales, like inside of trees or under a hill or in the actual Feywild) and making halflings very human-like (simple farmers and merchants, living in or near human...

This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but look at the quick-start for the new Batman RPG: Check Out The Gotham City Chronicles Quickstart In some places, the d20 roll is replaced by a d12 roll as a form of penalty. For example, Batman can make a whopping five attacks, but if he makes...

As a DM, I don't even try in the slightest to make the game fun. I make the game interesting. Then the players bring the fun.

In the actual Middle Ages, everyone* was convinced that magic was real, monsters were real and lurked around every corner, etc. BUT, they didn't know precisely how these things worked. Magic was incredibly mysterious because the people didn't have easy access to it -- they couldn't figure out...

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("Wrong Thread" is because I posted a big reply about the West Marches and then deleted it... :p ) The thing I like about Love Letters is that it gets the players playing right away, and that gets them engaged and thinking and motivated to remember what was happening. So to me, the "pick your...

I ran a West Marches-style campaign back in 4E (there were only 5 players so we didn't get the full experience). Regarding lore, there were four distinct eras in the region's history, with the oldest being a mythical era thousands of years ago, and the most recent being an influx of colonists...

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What if the housecat is also raging? Those things can get pretty scary.

OK, a quick search of D&D beyond shows these things rounding down: Ritual Caster feat in the PHB Shield Guardian monster stat block from the MM Cleric variant feature from Tasha's Living Armor from Eberron DDB will only return 35 results, and that's just for sources I have unlocked and only...

There are only a couple of "(round up)" rules in the PHB, but supplements have more of them, and third-party stuff is rotten with them, especially variant class and race features. It's just an annoying little thing that I'd rather not have to think about, especially since it serves so no...

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3.0/3.5 also had some strange rules around multiplication (x*2*2 = x*3, x*3*4=x*6, etc.). The 5e "multiclass spellcasting" rules also specify a very particular order-of-operations. I have a new guideline for game designers: If you feel compelled to teach your players how to do basic math, your...

I treat mithril as silver with regards to damage reduction. As mentioned, mithril's basically Super-Silver. As an aside, I allow druids to wear mithril armor and also alchemically silvered armor. Since silver is like a sacred moon-metal, and it can be worked at lower temperatures.