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Chicken and egg situation, though: did the community move away from sim and WotC's design follow, or did the 4e-5e designers move the...

OMG, we're parsing the actual text of LOTR like it's an RPG. Shark. Us. Lots of awkward jumping.

Hard to do when the classes will be bumping at different times. Assuming a straight 50-50 xp division the Fighter side will bump before...

That sounds fine for buying items in town but it would make party treasury division, if done fairly by value, an absolute nightmare...

Unintended consequences such as? I mean, I take it as a given that the PCs are going to end up either stinkin' rich or dead...or maybe...

If spells had rarity, you might be to factor that into the cost of magic item creation too.

More to the point, if spells had expensive material components that could certainly be factored in.

No one mess with Umbran's Tolkien scholarship. Angry hobbits with nobbly clubs will pour out of every nearby thread to treat you badly.

Except of course the best of them, Sam, who was just a gardener.

Given that Boromir keels over dead at the end of Fellowship, that's mighty generous! :)

Sure. But our lot have never quite bought into this. Thing is, we've always visualized the making of a save vs poison as either the...

and I expect most of them to not go adventuring in the first place, why would they

And don't forget that Half-Orcs apparently had no souls, and were dead dead, unable to be brought back to life. Back in the day I don't...

I think you were reading them right. Multiclass levels in 1e don't really stack in any way, and that includes hit points. Stacking (or...

A functional magic item economy and price list would help immensely here. 5e punted on this one. By 'functional', I mean rooted in the...