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Here, too: https://5e.d20srd.org/

I like to set those expectations up with familiar concepts. So session zero provides relationships and watchmen provide the head bashing. See my theory on WotC breaking it so players can pay WotC to fix it.

That sounds like . . . Boeing. Which is an excellent example of inharmonious. My metric for harmony is generally if I can read through the whole rule book without throwing it across the room. I'll discuss the inharmonious aspects in my next post. Ga'mes Modular appeal to the GM's sense of...

You have to start by making a big deal of it at meetings. Get dramatic about how IMPOSSIBLY ANNOYING it is. Then subtly watch to see who gets the most enjoyment out of it. That person is your target.

Tell me about it. Yah, shoo-er. Paap comes in pints. But we take beer to the lake, not paap, and doont go throwin' no rocks in. You might wake the jaackelope, an' he scares the walleye. Might as well throw yourself in . . .

This is the most likely, given that "books" won't survive the Great Nerd Purge of 2025. I'd pay money to see this. Thanks for the inspiration hero point!

Because it's not 5e anymore?

Oh, the paladin had a talk with the barbarian who was getting all the barbarian-only items. She still wouldn't share. So the paladin gathered up the surplus items while the barbarian was sleeping and left them in a cache away from the road. "A thief must have come by in the night!" It's not...

Funny. I didn't get any emails about my orders getting screwed up. But then, I didn't place them in the first place...? How many orders has Kobold Press canceled?

Always good to have the potential for PC-dismemberment. More selfless would be volunteering to take the place of the wrongfully imprisoned man. Coincidentally, the man was imprisoned in an escapable dungeon. If only he had the skill (and comrades) to do the escaping! Selfless: doing...

The mantra for 2024 might just be "let's break it and let them pay us to fix it." Time will tell.

Hey, now. WotC was very clear that they're not publishing a new edition. If you want to disregard the extant skill rules while reading the new book . . .

Less "I'm making this up" and more "WotC screwed up their rules, so I'll make an educated guess." Yeah, anyone with 25 gold can buy Thieves' Tools (provided you don't draw the watch's attention to the fence who is selling them), but not everyone gets proficiency with TT, so we're still talking...

Let's also note the near redundancy of Thief Rogue. I'm going with this: because rogues are awesome, they can disarm anything with a DC 15 Dex/Tools check. Everyone else has to play by the other rules. Because, why couldn't anyone else disarm a (located) trap, too? It doesn't matter if a...

Haven't played, but reading these is great fun (which is a good sign): Final Fantasy RPG 4th Edition - FFRPG 4th Edition Resources - Final Fantasy RPG 4th Edition Uses a cool attribute system that is more like humors than personal traits. Final Fantasy d6 - Final Fantasy D6 More of a...

Nice summaries! I knew I could count on the 'World. And it's a good thing that the 5RD is so "compatible" . . . are there easier casters I could be using from other games? Oddly, D&D seems to have dumped "spells known" for "spells prepared." The more you know... Given that 5e yanked...

I have two issues here: giving non-casters authorial-mundane powers is basically giving them magic, less the magic words, flashy lights, and accoutrement. The other is that if you hand out too much authorial-mundane power, the casters are going to wonder why they chose to be casters in the...

Can't imagine why you're thinking about villains who keep getting out of trouble. In early November...

Modos RPG comes to mind, too. Even if your fighter-style character doesn't take a power (skill) and call it Rapid Impromptu Bridge Identification (or what the wizard would call Alter 4, lifting it straight from the book), you could design your hero points like this: "has an eye for...

I tried to bone up on the new (and old) edition spellcaster rules. Using WotC literature for it was a mistake. For example, the wizard needs the following resources/rules (I think) to cast a spell: wizard spell list, spell description, a spell book, prepared spells, spell slots...