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Sure, one must not give credence or power to stereotypes - and that must be crystal clear from Session 0 onwards. However, it is not acceptable for a player to dump stat the two favourites - Int or Cha and then roleplay them as smart or charming (respectively), hiding behind the excuse that they...

It is also a style of dance in the dictionary - so presumably there should be cavorting Bards as a possible encounter? The key word you ignored was 'tropics'. The key weather I mentioned was 'snow'. Please tell me how often it snows in the tropics (or subtropics as you can find jungle there...

@doctorbadwolf - come on... how do you 'know' what Jungle means in 'common' parlance to most people - be honest, you just made that up, as you haven't done a survey to find out (I am quite certain if you had, there would be a link provided). But I guarantee there are very, very few people who...

That didn't take long did it... someone makes a term of reference mistake in a fantasy book and someone just has to bring up the 'it's magic and elves so you shouldn't have a problem with it' routine - one of the oldest logical fallacies dusted off and rolled out in such discussions...

Try finding a jungle outside of a hot and wet area of the world and then revisit this definition...

Jungle is always sub-tropical or tropical requiring high temperatures and lots of water, but are more open than rainforests which create more shade with a thicker canopy. The two are frequently confused with each other. However, if the description here is changed to non-magical heavy forest the...

A Weather result of 21-25 is SNOW in a Deep Jungle!? Change that last random weather category to Heavy Rain guys and gals...

Actually I don't think that is right. The issue is, hardly any truly successful writers of mainstream fantasy do high magic. Lord of the Rings, Conan, Game of Thrones, The Witcher, Assassin's Apprentice, Shannara, Wizard of Earthsea, Druss the Legend (anything by Gemmel), The Dragonbone Chair...

Then you took a small part of the conversation and took it out of context. I would encourage you to read the thread as a whole as reiterating the full context in every response in a thread is not something people do. If you dip into only a fraction of a discussion you can mistake the point of...

If you are going to critique, then do understand the point being made. It is quite clear I was tackling higher level play and it's 'magic solves everything' when it comes to exploration issue. You MUST go interpanar or have quite ridiculous challenges crowbarred in at high level to make...

Mathematically speaking peopple would still not know which was the wizards signatire spell from their casting - 1 per short rest? They would have to tell people...

By FAR the best art you have shown. Very, very nice. Pretty solid, scoring highly in all areas except for Wizard's Flair... I can see stinky fireballs incoming... or perhaps I can smell them. Not great at all, especially for a 9th level feature. It has the flavour of wizards apprentice school...

Interesting to see that you can be 'Seasoned' as a cook. The Cannibals will appreciate that... :P

In which case, that taps into the profficiency bonus plus the Dex bonus as the save roll bonus I am guessing - which would closely track defensive bonuses to AC. That would certainly work well to reflect skill and ability to defend against special attacks. Some would no doubt work well with...

All true, except that exploration challenges have an entire category of challenges which are point features - ruined bridges, chasms, unclimable precipises, sinking sand, trackless forest... these are all still trivilised by the ability to fly for 1 minute, never mind 10. Also, feather fall...

So much magic makes such 'level appropriate' challenges increasingly contrived, and then of course there is teleport. Ultimately 5E et al are superhero games, not fantasy as you will read it in 99% of fantasy genre novels. So yes, this creates entirely valid problems for DM's who have a lot of...

I hope once someone is disarmed any attempt to retreive the weapon within reach of an enemy combatant attracts an attack of opportunity with a bonus (maybe advantage), otherwise disarm will be as useless as it is now in 5E.

It would be good to see a set of rules on party retreats and escapes so the Dm can throw unbalanced stuff at groups from time to time and they have to take to their heels, or indeed if they get outgunned by chance and need to beat a hasty retreat anyway...

Make is 'immediately after taking damage before any other action in the turn sequence' maybe?

I like what I see, but would like to have vampires as a template with a few examples. This and lycanthropes never seem to be templates even though they are creatures transformed from base creatures. Odd.