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In my very old Etan campaign the three biggest towns/cities are Glygorf (5000), Robono (15,000), and Sal-Hy (25,000). These numbers...

Not fancy or exotic, just "ooh shiny!"

"Used to be" :(

Is there a place to share material here on Enworld in the old "potlatch" style you describe? Threads on house rules, e.g. "What house...

Maybe they will at least finally address that it is okay to limit options for the purpose of setting coherence. "Dwarves in Greyhawk...

Not really. I've never seen a designer of a new system or an extensive home brew who was entirely satisfied with it, and sometimes even...

My recent/current game is my "Brotherhood of Rangers" campaign, D&D 3.5e where all the PCs are gestalt-rangers and where I try to keep...

The latter, to me, isn't an issue. After a few lucrative adventures, adventurers always have the option of retiring and living well off...

That depends on the relative value of character build stuff vs plot stuff. Someone who faces starvation due to insufficient food funds...

If you want have separate currencies that truly stay separate, you have to get harsh about imposing currency controls. This is an...

5e says they aren't, but it also says 6-8 encounters a day is a reasonable and fun adventuring day, so grain of salt. The size of North...

The problem is coming up with helpful ways to spend gold beyond the obvious improvements to the survival and success of the character...

For the most part, I think of them like mercenaries, treasure hunters, or special forces soldiers, since combat is such a big part of...

Unfortunately, since I usually find it associated with "rulings, not rules" which is a philosophy I'm more than slightly hostile to, my...