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I am in a Darksun campaign right now. I think these rules work, we have a couple different ones. FWIW here are some of ours: Sorcerers...

Balanced does not mean guaranteed to kill off the PCs. It means the enemies are equal to the PCs, so they should kill off the PCs half...

I have no use for balance and generally think attempts to balance the game make it worse for the players. I have never seen extraneous...

Balance between players and monsters is not part of 5E or modern D&D. Even "High Difficulty" encounters are biased in favor of the PCs...

I don't think 5E is intended to have NPCs with PC classes, at least not PHB PC classes.

Most monsters were not intended to assume NPC roles in 1E so it is not a dodge. The DMG gave advice on playing monsters as NPCs, but...

I don't get where you are coming from at all. In 1E or 2e, an NPC would literally just be a 5th level fighter or a 12th-level mage...

This is not really true. 1E NPCs usually had classes. Monsters did not have classes, but NPCs who were not monsters definitely did...

I think this is a great example of what I am talking about. You say you want NPC classes, yet you also say "don't have to go through...

Personally I want spells to be less gated than they are now, not more gated. That way a PC can really drive what they want to do based...

If you are not going through the process then it is not really giving the NPC a player class. If you are just whipping up something...

Because to me that is just a tack on that is there for no reason and serves no purpose in the game. Just rules for rules sake. I...

I didn't play a lot of 3E, I am talking about 5E. Players regularly take 30-45 minutes to generate new characters and they know what...

I am an expert on the 2014 and 2024 rules, but I for one would like less complexity in 6E. A lot of the complexity seems to serve no...

We monsters and NPC cheat. It is what we do. You are not allowed to cheat. Because you are player. Non pLAYer Cheater. See it is in the...