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Yeah action economy is major with healing, and is a part of game design that videogames, especially MMORPGs have been considering for at...

One of the perennial issues I've had with D&D is how Fighters and other high-HP characters take longer and more resources to heal up...

That's only half of the issue though isn't it? You still have the player knowing that according to the rules of the game jumping off...

/edit to add BTW, @clearstream - the way you narrated the falling damage is exactly the same way I would do it. Totally fine. But...

The book is only 112 pages. They don’t have the room to shift anything. :) And for me personally, the real Eberron (as much as such a...

You're kinda describing the Mist engine in Son of Oak's game, City of Mist, Otherscape and Legend in the Mist. The last one in...

I'd go with next to impossible in 5e where hit points are a major part of how the game is balanced.

It all comes back to hit points, huh? We can't stay away from it for long.

I have advocated this. Beyond that, 5e variants like Level Up provide much more choice within the class system, so two characters with...

Yeah, its just not hard for aborbtion/deflection of damage and avoidance being conflated to produce some really odd results sometimes.

You can't spell "Ph.D." without "HP".

That sort of conflict can be fairly straightforwardly analysed: There's a reason that this is a known thing that happens in D&D play -...

Always remember the 5 D's of D&D: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge!

I was thinking about that when @TwoSix said casual players don't have an agenda. An agenda implies some sort of conscious choice. A...

That's more or less what I meant. I don't think any character generation system I'm liable to find satisfactory is going to be simple...