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In my most recent campaign, I limited player options and wrote some species specific lore for each in a campaign handout. It has worked...

Verisimilitude… reduces immersion…? That’s a first. I don’t agree that an adventuring party full of outlandish characters within an...

Fair enough... Since this is a [+] thread, I won't comment further on that score. I like your idea of a hybrid approach, wherein...

Try it in 3.PF, where you can also ban the core  classes.

Not going to comment on "circus troupe", but I agree with you about preferring a humancentric campaign. As an umpire, I have a strong...

yeah, rereading the OP it sounds more like their issue arises when the characters seem to lack connection to the world and civilization...

Adventuring is dangerous profession defined by the precarity of its workforce. It is precisely the kind of work that would attract...

I see the appeal of playing an oddball character, but when everybody is odd, nobody is odd.

For me the variety of sentient species in D&D (and I include the contents of the monster manual) cannot be taken seriously, so I don’t...

Hot take, I think a much bigger influence on modern fantasy snd thus dnd, than anyone gives it credit for, is Wizard of Oz. And that...

I have a player who has played D&D for almost 30 years and is sick of elves dwarves and humans. He will play the weirdest thing you can...

I was a bit disappointed because I thought this thread would be talking about circus troupes as a framing device for an adventuring...

HARP does it best: the players choose group objectives together, and gain shared XP for making progress toward them, and then PC...

I'm referring to the first edition; I haven't purchased the second edition (yet). I'm being coy out of an abundance of caution because...

So, just to be clear, I'm not actually a fan of 'race as class' per se, but I also think that ancestries can be used in more interesting...