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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...

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...

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...

As you know, I use the Level Up rules as my base. I have run multiple games in various fantasy and sci-fi settings of my own creation...

that’s great, but my claim was not that whatever system you are concocting would not lead to a low magic setting, it was that when...

The problem has been these always treated a normal hit as enough to deliver poison. As such you pretty much have to assume some damage.

I base my game on the world I want to create, and make sure the mechanics fit that, not the other way around.

That's absolutely true. Perfect sim is impossible. But acceptable sim, for me, definitely is. As far as picking your battles goes, I...

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

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

Well, then in some cases it's going to be on it, if the Players are too stubborn in the face of danger. And that's their choice, but...

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 get it, but to me it just doesn't matter in this specific case.

If neither character intentionally uses that thing, I do not see a difference. In either case this is the player deciding something that...

There are tons of feats, and I don't play 5.5, so everyone doesn't start with one. And even if I did, how many people pick that feat...