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I believe the implicit assumption is that as "elder races", the very essence of the dwarves and elves "as a people" are tired and simply... -
Whenever I'm running a D&D-like setting, I always have halflings as the most common (although not most powerful) race. They don't...
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Humans can reproduce a lot faster than Dwarves and Elves. Thats going to give the. A huge advantage in building population.
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This is the reason most well developed complex fantasy worlds give for the predominance of humans. Our ability to breed like rabbits...
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I think the main reason is that we are all human and cannot get into the heads of another race like dwarves and elves. I referenced the...
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In the one I created during 4e, Dragonborn 1) Each climate had Dragonborn matching the dragons native to that climate. 2) The players...
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Humans are generally positioned as the baseline to which other species are compared, no doubt because...
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rmcoen replied to the thread D&D General Disparity in PC levels from same party.In my previous campaign, 4e, new characters joined 1 level behind the other PCs. I had a player who kept switching characters, playing...
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At least with 3.x, the xp you got from encounters was directly based on your level, so that you could in fact "catch up" (this is why... -
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Almost my entire history at ENworld are people saying that the very things my D&D groups are doing are impossible or game-breaking in...
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Yeah, I'm to the point where I almost just throw stuff at 'em and see how they handle it. And it's completely unpredictable. Two...
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In theory the 5e concept of bounded accuracy should work to significantly flatten the overall power curve, thus making mixed-level...
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Now that the kids of the players in the group are getting older they join us sometimes, so I have taken to introducing them at 2nd/3rd...
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I think the benefit is indirect. Not that one wants disparate levels for their own sake, but one might want to be able to bring in new...
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It’s interesting to see so little interest in disparate level groups in 5E as BA makes it more doable than the past few editions...