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If no mechanics are attached, dwarf fighter as a first character, random ancestry or whatever seems like it's cool afterwards. That's pretty much why my Spelljammer character is a plasmoid: I picked it primarily for role-playing/cosmetic reasons. I like having mechanics attached to choice of...

I spent many years around the 3E-4E era playing World in Flames, a strategic-operational WW2 game, and I can see why the early iterations of D&D had the varied roll mechanics they did. WiF does the following: When you fight an air combat, you want to roll either low or high on 2d10; middling...

It almost looks quilted, which is kind of a cool look.

On Challenging PCs... I'm not terribly impressed by the assertion that "struggle makes the victory sweeter" when it comes to leisure time activities. Waiting for an hour in the line at the roller coaster doesn't make it more fun and enjoyable when you finally get on it. Suffice to say such a...

Resource management is likely a "sometimes food" in more character-driven play, especially in modern D&D. In such play, dilemmas or "character-defining" questions are IMO a suitable approach for challenging the players. What I mean is, we're not as interested in asking whether the players can...

Are you kidding? Agglomeration is a great word! It has the virtue of both looking and sounding like what it means. It's almost poetic. ;)

The example you give doesn't really strike me as having much to do with the concept of "rule of cool", and more of a problem of "spotlight hogging", or at least a related player misdemeanour. I mean, "being up high on pillars [...] and jump[ing] onto the back of a dragon" seems pretty darn...

If you want a genuinely minimal fix, then I think all you really need to do is retrofit sorcerer so that all sorcerous origins have origin spells à la Tasha's, give the ranger a bit of love (which I daresay the gloomstalker and Tasha's changes manage), clean up a few spells, and give the...

I'm pleased to say that as of this writing, my to-do list out of my summer plans for this project is as follows: That is, I've now finished the Tome of Rules, apart from perhaps reformatting the glossary (and adding a few terms here and there). Now it's time to figure out getting this stuff...

Rituals are all done, with 90 included in this base ruleset!

I'm pleased to say that after some revamping of magic items, I've finished an entire set of them (I may have got a bit carried away), for a total of over 150 of the things. Now working on reconstructing rituals. I think I've added some to the planned lot, too. Basically, I'm on pace to finish...

I know I should have a sensible answer, but the last sentence of the thread title has got me like: Tell me why! ain't nothin' but a mis-take Tell me why! ain't nothin' but a heart-ache Tell me why! I never want to hear you say The Greyhawk setting is introduced in the 2024 D&D DMG...

Thanks for all the suggestions! I've just finished magic weapons and armour, so I'm going to write up a few more magic items in each category and reconstruct the rituals. With the exception of some reference appendices (glossary and a few stat blocks), that will mean the "Tome of Rules" (think...

I'd be inclined to just ignore anyone who's only contribution is saying they don't like it or arguing about whether it's "5e-like" enough or not. (*) Or, at most, thanking them for their thoughts and leaving it at that. (*) Except insofar as it relates to how you plan to pitch the game. In...

I mean, basically almost the entire opus at itch.io is indie designers who are happily publishing what they love without much expectation of making big sales. Most are in the same boat as @RangerWickett I'd imagine.

I'd agree with either "indie" or "experimental".

Thanks to an older set of draft rules I've found in cloud storage, I've been able to start reconstructing the rules of play. Over just the past two days I have reconstructed: An introduction. A chapter of basic rules. A chapter detailing how ability scores and skills work (with skill...

Thanks for the expressions of sympathy! Fortunately, my work is back on down-cycle in terms of weekly hours - except for a bit of prep work for next year's Festival (the equivalent of a few hours a month), I'm down to checking email once or twice a day and having a meeting once a month or so...

So this project has hit a snag: in early-mid March, I managed to spill tea all over my laptop, with the predictable results. My laptop is what I use for work and for non-video-game leisure activities such as this project. While I have a new laptop, an attempt to transfer data from the old one...