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Keep making death saves (i.e. no death from massive damage) until you are healed the amount you went negative.

Two words. Party interdependence. Assuming the default style of play to be a group of characters going out on adventures (an...

Perhaps. I'm trying to separate chivalric (or anti-chivalric) knight types out from common fighters as I think there's class-design...

They can all talk, they can (and, I hope, do) have memorable personalities and character quirks, they can all try to do things outside...

Creating a setting from scratch to playable took me about a year of nowhere-near-constant effort, while working a full-time job. At a...

Mr. Shey, I know I'm not the person this was directed toward, but it's a public forum and I'm following along. With all due respect, I...

I want to keep this discussion civil because I really do enjoy it. That said, I have to inquire about that last comment. Hard to still...

I don't get that impression from anyone here. We just tend to follow the Gygax thought on the matter. "ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is...

I may not state my preference using the exact same wording as @kermit4karate, but I think the game works best when the DM makes the...

Take a look at our system sometime - it's probably closer-related to TSR-era D&D than you realize. www.friendsofgravity.com/games then...

Change "Prevent" to "Embrace" there and you've got it bang on. :)

Again, you do you. I've DM'd more than 1,000 hours over 40+ years and have never had a single person walk out of one of my games -- not...

But isn't the point of worldbuilding to make something exciting? Or at least part of it? Maybe Waterdeep has galleons docking there...

if you don't want a healer to be an essential role in the party maybe stop resorting to lethal combat as your solution to all your...

For us it's mostly Humans and Elves. Part-Elves used to be really popular but have tailed away dramatically over time. Dwarves are...