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Mine is a very long list (a lot incorporated into my frankenstein 5e-ish already), but one thing I would love to see is tender loving care and genuine design effort + playtesting put into gray areas of the game. Chase rules (that are actually awesome, not 2014 DMG milquetoast rules) How to...

@Neurotic None of the NPCs in the caravan has grey/white hair. @VLAD the Destroyer @Steve Gorak @Aethmud @TaranTheWanderer Quick recap of what I think everyone is advocating... Delay Torga's Caravan in order to Long Rest, then engage the caravan after rest... question of how to do this...

Good sandboxes use overlapping adventure hooks in intelligent and sometimes unexpected ways. An example of how I'd present your "+1 sword in a monster cave" hook: When the dwarves retreated to the foothills, they sought refuge in a cliffside cavern where they were attacked by winged monsters...

Boxed text has many points of potential failure that lead to that "checking out" @Morrus and other folks mentioned. For example, boxed text can... Assume mode of travel / directionality of PC travel that may be false (e.g. "to your left is a golden archway surrounding impenetrable darkness, to...

I agree with the problems of heavy natural language, especially verbose natural language. However, counterpoint: Abstraction of pure mechanics to the deficit of narrative explanation creates a huge stumbling block of interpretation, aka "WTF is this actually doing in the game story?" I saw this...

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Yes, I'll handle Alma if you want her to do something. Same for Russet and Zeth. At least until we have a narrative moment where I can explain their departure.

I would encourage you – with your own creative works for sale – not to feel beholden to any of the WotC/Hasbro formats. There's a healthy tradition of changing up the mold when it serves the project better. To your greater question, for all the greater clarity that's gained with a mechanistic...

Wow, it's like I'm listening to myself DMing during 4th edition! ;) Every group I've been in kind of matches what you describe – half are invested/rules-savvy, half are casual/no-books, and several struggle with knowing what their characters do (through a combo of badly organized digital...

Convenient link to OOC discussion @Neurotic is leading: [OOC] Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden [closed but waitlist is available]

EDIT: Oops! Just wanted to say love that you're planning. No rush, have fun with it. Btw, I think Alter Self is limited to same size (gnome couldn't look like a human or half-orc sized).

GM POST Fresh snow makes for easy tracking, as Lumrolur follows the deep shuffling boot prints, finally catching up to the lumbering half-orc. A shadow in the bluish gloom, Lumrolur follows at a safe distance like a shadow on the timber and stone buildings sagging under recent snows. You...

Jack's attention is quite diverted by the illusory tale of the polar bear he artfully weaves for the three children. Thankfully, his companions have their wits about them. Alma is able to engage with the half-elven woman pouring over a journal, bonding in shared scholarly eccentricities. "A...

My fav approach to cantrip limitation is Beyond the Wall: Make spellcasting check when you use a cantrip. If succeed, you cast it fine. If you fail, either you cast and exhaust your uses of that cantrip for the day OR you let the GM come up with a miscast complication.

Been ages since I ran piratical D&D, but the dwarven mage made absolutely awesome use of flaming sphere in the nautical combat and drove off attacking pirates. But to get to that point, they had to survive an arcane gated boarding party (arcane gate comes into range roughly same as regular...

One thing D&D almost never handles well is stun-locking mitigation / soft counters /making it engaging. You mentioned increased mobility in 5.5 combats? I think that's in incredible win. With your experience running 5.5, what do you attribute that to? Because it would seem to be antithetical to...

Yes, true. There’s always blur over at late/end of editions. The explosion of NWP was distinctly associated with 2e. I was more coming at it from the concept of updated clones - for example, OSRIC does not include NWPs afaicr.

From what I remember of playing lots of 2e (with questionable adherence to the rules), when it comes to distinct mechanical features of 2e, there are only two that stick in my memory… Nonweapon proficiencies involving an eclectic mix of “stuff you can just do”, stuff that interfaces with...

If it’s going to be a rigorous system - and not an ad hoc “let’s make it work” spirit of cooperation - then a class based system is what makes sense to me. I believe Grim Hollow has examples of this approach.