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An idea that had occurred for me in terms of hit location splits and the like: When a hit location is chosen (randomly or by called shot), and a weapon has some kind of spray/clustering feature implied (long burn lasers, missile clusters, whatever), the defender may split the damage (rounding...

Oh yeah, that would be like that one episode of TOS. It would really be bad! (At least a bad episode. :p )

Monte Cook's Unearthed Arcana and even more so Arcana Evolved also featured racial classes and paragon classes. Most noteworthy there might be the Giants, who would even grow to large size, and Faen, who could change into flying Sprytes. Eberron also had a kind of "racial-adjacent" feature with...

Here is the thing: I don't actually see any value in players not being able to target a weak save. It just means that by random chance, sometimes a player character can't contribute with their useful spells. Is that really great? Or alternatively, it means a spell casters entire effectiveness...

Some uproars can be weathered, though. Stun is whatever the game rules say it is, there is no hard-determined real world description for it, it covers a wide range of possible states it might describe, unlike, say "dead".

In the end, there is always an implied setting the moment they put in Elves and Dwarves, basically. Especially if they describe the Elves as pointy eared and medium sized and dwarves as typically bearded. And D&D usually also adds gods (and that you can have Clerics of gods) and stuff like that...

I like the idea of being able to sense the spell resistance and deciding what to do, but in the end, it is just another form of "saving throw" (or attack roll). Is there really a benefit from adding that extra layer? Why couldn't the enemy's defense or saving throw just be higher, isn't the end...

No, I am not saying a stun spell doesn't stun. I am saying the condition stun could be a condition where you can still do things. Maybe not all of them, or only for a price. Maybe you cannot do the fancy cool stuff, like reactions, bonus actions, casting non-cantrips and making multi-attacks...

The outcome of a save is binary, but a saving throw "ability" more than bad or good. That's just 5E's approach because it only has proficient or not proficient by default. You could easily have 3 steps, bad, moderate and strong. And if your game had conceptual design space for monsters that...

I don't agree that they should stick with 6 saves. I think having so many is particularly a reason why it is so difficult to target them equally in frequency or power, there is too much to go around, and the thematic differentiation isn't really clear. And it's perfectly fine if a party has the...

Yeah, but it was an observation that I also made in the post you quoted, so I suspected that you might not have completed reading it.

Keep reading my post, then you'll know what I believe. The answer might surprise you!

My first RPG experience I made when I was around 18 or 19, and my first game was Shadowrun 3E. Shadowrun is as setting mixing cyberpunk and fantasy. It has no classes or levels, you just equipped gear - perhaps cyberware and learned different skills. In that edition, every character had 10...

Dungeons & Dragons 3E. It was a silly game, it had a video-gamey hit point mechanic - they even rise with levels (did I mention this is so videogamey yet?), so they don't seem to represent wounds like in a proper roleplaying game, basically entirely nonsensical and unimmersive. And the spells...

In case he is an unwilling Nightmare, and you still want to avoid a solo combat against a single Nightmare, consider giving him some nightmare or (were)-friends that are attracted by his appearance and protect him. If it's a curse, maybe the Nightmares seek to make the effect permanent. Maybe...