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So, with the caveat that it's good to have the occasional easy fight, and it's also ok if some days only have one fight - it's not always plausible that every trip is a gauntlet of death!.... I ran a campaign (Yoon Suin) that had a paladin, and he was wrecking things. But then I realized it...

a few examples?

A big reason I'm so excited that Dungeons of Drakkenheim is coming to DnDbeyond (and thus a much wider audience) is the hope that it can show people (WotC, aspiring dMs etc) how a well structured adventure is written/organized. Of course, the material itself is juicy and interesting, very much...

I played STK as a player, on a DM's first ever adventure. This DM had rough edges, and they were struggling with the adventure, and so did the party. But I (and my character, who was a warrior-sage and the "brains" of the party) had a sort of epiphany - I had to stop thinking about the...

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Could that image be AI-generated? The hands are... hmm

So are you saying that the Alexandrian might have been right?!?

The fun thing about sharing gaming ideas is that - if you are lucky a bit - while the general reaction is not always enthusiastic, there is is (if you are lucky) a person or two for whom the idea is just right. Glad I could help you out :)

inventing art was a major mistake ;)

The thrill could be in the attack roll... but if you really want to roll damage too, you could simplify the game, and then replace "pips" with D6. Not as simplified, but still simpler than today.

As @ezo mentioned above, the simple math of D&D are, for some people, not simple at all. I know people for whom 5+3 is a challenge.

A adventure I've been very impressed with is Dungeons of Drakkenheim. It has a number of adventuring locales - the dungeons of drakkenheim It has a ruined city with strange conditions that greatly influences pacing and make it interesting There is a lot of details/hooks on getting the PCs to a...

I've noticed something... the "base" amount of damage/healing in D&D is 5. Cantrip is usually a d8, d10 damage - about five. A regular attack is about double that - the stat bonus is usually about +4, +5, the weapon dice is usually about a d8, d10. Aid: 5 Cure wounds: about double that...

Very true. But this is often due to just random luck. Any mid level PC with a reasonable con score can fall 50 feet once per day and be totally fine. There may be one or two people on earth who can do this, if at all, without trickery/artifice. If the game had a mechanism where each fall...

Warhammer had sort of a hybrid approach to the gygax/arnesson divide. In 2nd ed, a starting character would have about 8-10 wounds (roughly the equivalent of HP). And a high level fighter-type might have... 6, 8 more wounds than a starting character? But said high level warrior was also...

agreed - a 5th level character can jump off a 5th story budling and be 100% fine the following morning... and they can do this every day. Temp HP also muddles the issue....

Yup. I played a shield and board one, so I ended up taking things like lucky, ritual caster and chef...

I think the system has a big impact on this. The more powerful PCs are/can be, the more independent they can be of social norms and power. You see this a lot in high level D&D games. Warhammer 2nd ed frpg is *really * good at showcasing the "from below" aspect, it's baked into the system...

I think the "bonus action traffic jam" is what keeps them from being OP, personally. I do agree with you that most of the runes are quite good - only frost is clearly a "don't bother" with. I also agree that cloud rune doesn't come up as often as I expected.

So, the town is name Bedlam, because bedlam means a commotion, a big mess, an uproar. The reason why that word means that, the origin of that word, is because Bedlam used to be the nickname of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, which back in the day was an asylum for the insane (to use the terms used...