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You'd be surprised. "Faster" can meaning "stripping out important context and granularity" to some and "more thematic" can mean...

Or just pare down the list players can choose from at level up (say, maybe a chooseable list of about 6 spells per spell level, this...

In 3.xe it was a problem as the power curve was so stupidly steep in that system that being one level adrift was a big deal. It's one...

Campaigns do not have to finish, it is not a requirement, a lot just go on until fading away.

Reincarnate or Wish (if well worded) maybe, but I'm very dubious about Resurrection. Edit to add: and the obvious problem with...

How I interpret it to avoid the complete player/character decisions disconnect, is that every hit point has at least a little bit of...

Hard disagree. Hit points are an abstraction, but they still represent something real in the fiction that the character can experience...

And thus, in one fell swoop of inspiration, was invented the Ring of Regeneration. :)

Unless you have it that hit points represent fatigue, nicks, scratches, and suchlike as well as just luck; thus meaning the character...

Or, if you're going to make tactical decisions about resources, to make them from the character's point of view. In the fiction the...

I mean, the definition of "metacurrency" is rooted in the distinction between a game element being "only mechanical" versus having a...

Consumables are real things in the setting, so IMO absolutely not.

I seem to recall Hackmaster 5th Editon (no relation to D&D5e) uses this kind of action tracking. Might be worth checking out it you...

We've found that doing three things... 1 - mostly removing demi-human level limits (there's still some class-species combos that are...

Elves would have a hard time getting to those limits anyway due to another oft-forgotten (or discarded) rule: they couldn't come back...