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Even if it’s a character who never featured in a single adventure and lived and died entirely within the lore of setting books?

Unrelated: That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Sometimes a dragon should just look like a dragon. I don’t see myself looking at this and saying “yeah, I need more topaz dragons in my...

That's exactly why I like special abilities over stat bonuses. To me, something like "You have Advantage on rolls to resist being moved...

I like the way 13th age does it. There are some exceptions, but for the most part it works like this: your race gives you the choice of...

Let’s not forget the first Dark Sun adventure, “Freedom”, in which the brave PCs get to “help” the novel heroes with their rebellion...

I don't even think its really necessary to make them relevant; often they're just to inform how the character will be played. I'm not...

It seems that as soon as you go down the road of giving ability score bonuses (or penalties) within a class based system where one class...

I assumed they had met a Deep Dragon once... those are purple, no?

Thinking through the first 34 pages of this thread, I think the most salient point was made by @Umbran: if culture can explain/provide...

Yeah, I don't know that retcons even make sense when it comes to TTRPGs given that by their very nature, each table is going to diverge...

That can be a little odd. I've got a player in my 13th Age game who came in as the "Champion of Concord" (one of the major cities in...

I've done the backstory thing, and I like them but want them to be at best a paragraph. My problem is not any one backstory - it's...

I tend to keep backgrounds relatively short & sketchy nowadays, to root the character lightly in the world (and allow for flexibility if...

I've swung around hard on backstories. When I first started playing I went all out on them, but then I realized that no one else I...