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I liked that concept when I first got exposed to it with Cryptomancy as one of the Seven Secret Crafts of Glantri (BECMI) and it was even more cool as my favourite Prince of the 10 that ruled the nation was also Cryptomancy's 5th Circle Mistress (head of that craft).

Establish lore regarding this solitary beholder - creation or escape from the Outer Realms. If from the Outer Realms perhaps the users of these artifacts become slightly mad or adopt certain beholder-like tendencies (diet, senses, metamorphosis...etc) I would not have all of the priests graft...

I agree with this, YP adventures require a creative DM to make them anywhere near interesting. Of late I have really been enjoying the social pillar of the game (characters are 16th) Our current party is split and one of the storylines I'm running has been BG - DiA and we've played through the...

At this stage the Dabus of Sigil are easier to understand than your posts

If one removes the 6 abilities, I would imagine monsters would lose them too. i.e. your less powerful comment would apply to monsters as well. If they did not then some sort of other measurement would be required on behalf of the PCs.

And that is where we differ and to be clear on my position, not playing in those worlds does not make it not D&D either. I remember that homebrewing your D&D was a thing. You still were considered to be playing D&D though.

Yes I didn't disallow your opinion, I just find it to be peculiar.

You're rolling a d20. You still have modifiers, HD, hit points, armour class, saving throws, skill checks, sorcery points, beholders, chromatic dragons, your standard classes, levels, spell levels, feats, different die for weapons, proficiencies, skills, Strahd, Stephen Karameikos, Tiamat...

If I am playing in Waterdeep, Threshold or Barovia and there are no ability scores...it is still D&D to me... D&D is more than ability scores IMO. The absence of a mechanic does not stop it being D&D.

A party of five nineteen

Great thread! Questions I never pondered to ask but can help establish richer setting lore for my players who enjoy that kind of world-building, which is most of them. ;)

Interestingly an idea similar to this was being discussed on Enworld 2-3 weeks earlier. :ROFLMAO: Now I have not read through the thread but actively having a wizard being able to cast spells of level 5 or lower (swapping them out or not) doesn't lessen the 7-8 pages of one's character sheet...

I agree the 3HD is a better fit as it accentuates the importance and difference between the classes, whereas the Con score creates more same-y.

I agree with you the starting hit points should be higher to counter those 1st-2nd level TPK horror stories. I would be in favour of 1st Level = Max Hit Points + Constitution Score (if your Constitution Score ever increases so do your hit points).

Thank you for the constructive criticism. You do realise that the same argument you're making for opponents would work exactly the same for characters, right? Level 7 Wizard 30 hit points (6 + 6x4) Level 7 Fighter 46 hit points (10 + 6x6) To be clear, I view hit points as Stamina, Skill and...