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I mean, if a player has some sort of saved up resource (like a boon or favor, or a magical item, or a powerful spell), such that introducing it into the narrative would obviate the entire challenge, then I (as a GM) would end the skill challenge and mark it as successful. Likewise, if there’s...

I backup my honor mode saves every few hours just in case. Never had a save glitch myself, although it's such an enormous game it doesn't surprise me at all. The reason for ironman saves, for me personally, is that it makes save-scumming painful to the point of not bothering. The temptation...

One group's "better rules" is another group's "worse rules". Hence, do "no rules" when you can get away with it. "What's the correct way to stat out non-combat NPCs to enhance verisimilitude around species" is sufficiently small potatoes that they can get away with it.

I just don't really see them as completely different games. Different games, yes. Not completely different games. Like, Tears of the Kingdom doesn't have a ton of gameplay in common with the Legend of Zelda; but at their core, they're about a heroic kid with a sword finding special tools to...

I know what RAI means; I don't what the intention is to be able to decipher the RAI.

It's not really Oberoni IF you don't want them to put in rules simply because you think that it will both A) make people mad and B) they'll just screw it up anyway. :) I mean, the one rule from 5e2024 someone pointed out was "Just use 10s for all stats for average commoner NPCs". That's...

I have no idea what the RAI is. I’m just saying what I outlined is what I feel is the easiest approach.

Exactly. As the core assumptions of D&D have changed from classic to trad to neotrad over the decades, the assumed relationship between the PCs and NPCs has changed. That thing I said earlier, about PCs not being a representative sample of the NPC population, is completely at odds with the...

They still aren't strong. This doesn't really have anything to do with the rules. This is about the principle that the GM has carte blanche to model NPCs as they see fit without needing to feel beholden to the PC generation rules. Even if a PC halfling has no Strength adjustment, the GM can...

I'm saying your bog-standard GM should be able to extrapolate from the high-level tropes of a race to determine a workable set of mechanical parameters for what an "average" member of a race would be represented as without mechanical guidance.

It isn't like there isn't ANY info, AFAIK, the new books have a section on species. And it isn't like the 5e14 books aren't still valid. And if it's obvious to the GM that halflings and goliath have the same strength, then just....do that? If a player and DM disagree, they can sort it out...

No. What's the problem? If I need an elf NPC in my game, I add one. If it needs stats, I make up stats that feel elfy.

Then it only sort of matters?

That we know of.

Happy to help.