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I have ten players who are constantly splitting the party, if for no other reason than, they each have separate things they want to do or try. This ranges from trying multiple solutions to a problem at once to wanting privacy and secrecy.

In a battle not everyone has to be defending the city from an attacker or directly involved in combat. The two rogues along with their motley crew of scoundrels prevented another thieving guild from stealing the food stores and selling it back to the city populace at inflated prices. For their...

I give my players a minor NPC to run. If they do an exceptional role play and have the other players commenting on how well they did I move the NPC up to the level of retainer/hireling.

As part of my session zero I tell the players that in Game of Thrones Arya's quest started out as simply getting home to Winterfell. She was sidelined quite a bit and in the process became a remarkable person. The same can happen to your characters.

With the exception of special opponents I give the players the same that they give various NPCs. I may change things a bit for fun. Having an enemy mage cast a ball of water as an opposite to the player elementalist's fire ball.

I encourage my players to create their own items.

With regards to killing opponents, has anyone found that their players, for lack of better word, have become "racist and/or sexist" in their approach to "justice". For example, trying to redeem the female half elf thief, while outright killing a male half troll thief?

I start my players with a list of problems that various people have. They choose who they want to help. When they return they learn that the problems they ignored for the time have either been solved, remain the same, gotten worse or resolved on their own. If a farmer has problems with wolves...

I played in an evil campaign once. The premise for keeping us together and not at each other's throat was that a citadel of good paladins and clerics were creating holy weapons that would kill us all. So we had to stop this. As icing on the black hearted cake the citadel also contained goodly...

In my game I have done something similar. Each race has ten abilities that scale to four different levels. A player is allowed to choose up to four levels of abilities. A player can have four abilities at level one, one at level four, or whatever combination they wish. For those who want to...

My players know that everyone they fight has some kind of information. They can always turn prisoners over to the city guard. For the most part the city punishes criminals with forced labour.

In my world arcane users are approximately one in a thousand, however, perhaps only one in five of them has "formal training". This is the difference between the wizard who learns to speak many words of power to cast spells, the mage who learns to move their fingers and hands in various...

I ignore alignments. No matter which edition or other game that uses them, they never work. People always deviate from the given game definition. You could make a scale, on one side list the seven deadly sins, on the other the seven virtues. Then see where the players fall. Would a cleric of the...

In my game world I have adventurers both retired and active at approximately one percent of the population. Those who are retired generally provide a service such as Sven the Swift Arrow who slew a wyvern and now owns the Wyvern's Wing Inn.

Attack the polearm. Turn it into a stick.

How about giant rabbits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Angry_Rabbit

I have my players roll for attributes. We have a low of 4 a high of 17, most average between 9 and 13.

You might find a pharmaceutical sales representative and ask for one of those calendars that show the effects of gangrene in infected wounds. It really does make an excellent graphic to use and also serves as a very unusual conversational piece in the reception room. :p

An assassin.

I pick wild mint from the garden and add it to my pine needle tea. Does this count? :p