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This was the case for Star Wars Saga edition. Your defense was the better of Dex+Armor or Dex+Level or something like that. It made armor better to use at lower levels, but as you gained experience eventually you'd want to wear plain cloths. There were exceptions to this rule, like armor which...

Mmmm that's a good encounter. Round 1 the dragon smashes a wagon, round 2 it makes search checks, the PCs can also make checks to see if they can find it first too. Maybe the dragon tries for a round or two to find the gem and moves to another cart, using its breath weapon first. If the PCs find...

Isn't the idea tho that a encounter with a dragon would happen with a number of medium to hard encounters thrown at the PCs first. If they are fully rested that thing is going down fast, but after a few fights to tire them out and use up some of their resources, that dragon is gonna give them...

Check out Stars without number, they do a thac0 variant which only requires addition. It's like "20 - monster thac0 + any bonuses + player AC + d20 = 20 or over is a hit". I think. Made the old adventures easier for me.

Sorry, what I was trying to say was from a GM side, allow for a more open ended method of conflict resolution. Negotiating is a great method for over coming opposition. But it only works if the gm gives the NPCs an attainable thing. Usually I would negotiate with a seemingly deadly monster for a...

My fiance runs a duet game for me and my character has survived 2 1/2 years of real world time and 7 levels. Mainly because being alone or with a NPC I'm attached to makes me think more on my toes. Also, because wizards have low HP and I didn't want him to die. Anyway if you want to run 1-1...

If you want to add a little bit of numenera's cypher like objects as rewards check out http://donjon.bin.sh/5e/random/#cypher If I ever run a Eberron game again (which I most likely will) I'd use that table quite a bit.

Well, my first question is, How many treasure hoards have you sacked? Low and Standard shouldn't have a lot laying around just yet. A bunch of 1/use items are fine, but in those two styles by 4th level you shouldn't see too many. High Magic? kinda depends again on the setting. In FR, if the...

We totally throw out the default XP system and use dungeon world's system. Players need their level+7 experience and experience is awarded through failing skill and ability checks and through a end of session check list which awards up to 3 XP, one point per yes to each question. What this does...

Well, would building a NPC dragon mark heir like a PC break the game? Would doing this for any NPC break the game?

Wouldn't backgrounds be a better mechanic?

I guess, I mean is s fantasy role playing game. Part of growing up is learning to differentiate between real life and fantasy. Even at a young age. But if that's the way you want to run your games I'm not gonna stop you. But this DM is recognizing that their kids really got attached to this npc...

Because if I had been subjected to that kind of thing when I was 11 I would have dropped d&d so fast. It's called a touch stone, the players made the kobold a touchstone, and it may be ok for you and your group to kill touchstones through fiat but it sounds like they really liked it.

If it were me, I'd give the party a chance at braving the kobold afterlife to recover it's soul like mentioned earlier. Really give it some thought about the emotional payoff that would have for the players. It would also be a redemption quest for you, the dm. I know you're getting back into it...

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