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It's very different from D&D, in mechanics and in play - but In A Wicked Age does a version of this.

But if they're game-breaking, should they really be options? Well, there was a version of D&D that did this . . .

I think that would be really neat, and would love to try it. But you'd REALLY need the right group! They would have to like the concept...

Just thinking about this: I like how Agon 2e handles this from an Odyssey/Homeric myth point of view. Not quite real-world adventuring...

Some uproars can be weathered, though. Stun is whatever the game rules say it is, there is no hard-determined real world description for...

That's like a part-time job.

I've never used generative AI for scenario design. But this is an example of what an Agon island looks like (it's one I wrote up): As...

My experience has been that the maps are unusably bad. Bullet points are often OK but pretty generic. It's usable, but it's nowhere near...

Yep, and their statements were off. My brief examples were more accurate to the actual nature of how play works at those levels. The...

I'll happily pay for a map and a list of bullet points, if the map is interesting and the stuff in the bullet points compelling! I'm...

As someone who has run a ton of published adventures over the years, I would certainly say that as time has passed, the idea that...

And that is the source of the problem and the entire point of the thread because... Your boss monster is now only making a save vs a...

I quite like the idea of going back to 4e's Fortitude, Reflex and Will. Pairs up "popular" saves with "rarer" ones. Fortitude...

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...

I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be counterproductive to achieve the goal of finding ways to make hardship on...