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My real-world experience with bowstrings I made myself is that a string-snaps failure is less frequent than one per 10,000 arrows...

IT's the DM's job to tell the players everything that is apparent to the characters that the players may not be aware of.

My experience with AD&D 1e was that it was an extremely rules-heavy system, so much so that practically everyone ignored most of those...

I'm a DM who likes crunchy rules. I consider 3.5e to be peak D&D, and I've happily played Champions 4e in the past. One thing that...

It sounds like we're talking about two different things. You seem to be talking about the PCs choosing to avoid a combat to begin with...

If the high quality weapons characters are assumed to have never break that is also consistent within the setting. If you want to add...

I guess mileage varies. I've seen enough examples of elaborate and crippling spell-fumble systems over the years to disabuse me of the...

I find tracking damage taken by weapons (or other pieces of equipment) to be a huge pain in the ass. So I normally handwave any partial...

Roughly a 0.5% or higher chance per attack roll.

What I want to see are combat systems that make it easy for the whole party to retreat and that provide a clear signal when it's time to...

I find that rules for ordinary weapons regularly breaking in use produce a stupid-silly game, not a fun one. I also have no problem at...

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild could have been one of the best video games of all time. But the constantly breaking weapon system...

1. I only run homebrew settings, so avoiding it is not specifically about Eberron. 2. I am just not into magitech, artificing, warforged...

That's the thing cap, I don't want to respect logistics.

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