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One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is the crappiness of treasure in 5e. Not the magic items I think those are generally fine (as...

Some of these would be great character portraits if they were standing alone and not overlapping with other characters in the image. :)

Only if the attack hits. The poison has to have been potentially delivered in order for a saving throw to even be required.

In play I try - in vain, often, but I do try - to discourage the use of actual numbers when talking about hit points, preferring instead...

So, that's actually an interesting bit. Because, those of us who have doe or currently do actual simulation of reality for, say...

I oppose design that leads to the bolded. I want the PCs to be directly representative of the population, or at least of what anyone in...

As I said, that PCs and NPCs are different is something @Micah Sweet already disagrees with, so any argument that hinges on the PCs...

A few things to note here. First, it's not likely to be 1 in 100. 1 in 1000, though, I can see; higher in urban areas and...

I subscribe to TSR worldbuilding conventions in large part, where NPCs can have classes, or not, depending on what they do and who they...

I don't think A-series Slavers was ever intended to be anything more than a connected series of tournament modules. The G-series was...

Before. A quick google shows the WFRP campaign as being "late 1980s" and that WFRP as a system didn't exist until 1986. Dragonlance...

I mean, I don't know anyone (not even myself!) who actually communicates the number of hit points a character has within the fiction...

True, but it also is true that the D&D has over the years gotten less gritty and more high fantasy. It was never particularly gritty or...

So, a prototype of a Wounds-Vitality hit point system then, where everyone has 6 Wound points. 'Bout bloody time. How does poison...

They are the same thing mechanically. Luck doesn't have an in-setting explanation. The Force does, explicitly.