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I'm definitely going to ensure that the players choose a quest for their PCs. While it's doubtful they'll play knights (yeah, I know...

The genre itself has the following tropes: 1) Knights do all the interesting stuff 2) The crown is fair and good, but bad is done in...

Trust me, I can inject horror into anything. Thank you for the recs!

Are you implying that D&D is not a story telling game?? lol Just what direction do you think D&D is headed in?

No, it means its clean, simple, easy to understand at a glance.

I think their ancestry design is far more elegant than D&D.

Yeah, I'm thinking a happy medium looks a lot more like Daggerheart, than todays options.

I'd only want that if the classes were like Human Fighter, Human Wizard, Elf Skirmisher, Elf Woodmage... There's no reason why all elves...

Thats probably a bridge too far for a lot of folks.

No? I mean, yes, OK, but there's also puzzles, social challenges, environmental hazards, exploration hazards, and the like. You do those...

D&D has always been very bad at giving XP for non-combat challenges. I even just checked 5.24, where it says you get the same amount of...

I'm haven't tracked XP for a decade and I haven't missed it, except for the bonus XP I would get for bringing snacks to game.

In comparison to later damage-dealing spells, they're minor. Anyway, let me rephrase: I'd do this while implementing different combat...

You know what else would be fun? DMs have to randomly generate all dungeons and make all encounters random encounters! All treasure...

Honestly I feel like the ideal would be almost all spells (or the vast majority) being unique to each class (albeit Sorcerer and Wizard...