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I thought that when created the thread, but I like to hear ideas opposite to mine when they are argumentative and not just furious rabble. Even if I do not agree with the contradictory, arguments helps me to review my own ideas. Anyway, of course the idea was not start an edition war, even...

My ideal FR is more to 2e BEFORE the Time of Troubles, so 3.5e is already out (including, as I said before, the shades). ;)

I know the current tendency is "everything in the PHB" can be used, but I would be more to the "no dragonborns, no tieflings either". An no, Abeir is not another thing elsewhere. Abeir-Toril is the real name of the place and Toril is just a short for it.

First of all, none of the RSE (Realms Shattering Events). For me , all the first adventures published for 5e were that. Tiamat entering the Realms, demons out of Abyss, etc, etc, etc... I always prefered near to ground stories and not "save the cheerleader, save the world". I would delete even...

Once a GM cames with an idea for a Ars Magica mystery game where all players were companions and grogs, with just NPCs as mages. I was very interested to play. I was the only one. The others were more like "Ars Magica and I cannot be a mage? I pass".

To a point. Lots of utility powers were to be used in combat: up your defenses, move to safety or to reach a new enemy, demoralize your opposition, etc. While there was utilities like "interrogate better" or "find more food exploring", to many players it was a difficult choice, because take them...

I saw some people in this forum asking for 4e be released as a SRD to Creative Commons like 5e (and possibly 3.5e). Do not get me wrong, I liked 4e, but I think it was very combat oriented and did a bad service to other game pillars. And most powers were, quite frankly, more of the same. Even...

D&D in 1988, when a friend of mine came from USA with the books. Star Wars around 1980, I think, when Empire Strikes Back came to my city's theater. I read Earth Sea when I was young, but not sure the precise age. Perhaps around the first 80s years. I was already in my mid-twenties when I...

Perhaps not the religion I like most, but one I think that has one of the most interesting origins are the Cerilian gods of 2e's Birthright setting. You have these gods because the old gods slain themselves in a huge battle and mortal followers near them when they fall absorbed the liberated...

It would be interesting for sure. The problem, I see, is that each spell would have many origins, one for setting: in Forgotten, it was invented when... In Eberron, when..., In Cerilia, when..., In Dragonlance, when...

The same book I cited tells who invented the spell in Netheril. For example, magic missile was originally General Matick's missile and was invented by him on 2268 Netherese Year.

Double checked. Netheril: Empire of Magic boxed set. I still have mine, lol. The campaign book, page 29, has a table "Spell Introduction by Year"

In the 2e era, the series of Arcane Era of Forgotten Realms (essentially the time of Netheryl), there was a book that give the years many spells were invented in that setting. Because then Mystril (today Mystra) forbidden time travelers to cast spells yet not invented.

You are right, sir. I researched and misremembered. I confounded it with Gilliam's Time Bandits. My bad :)

Did not Terry Gilliam, aka one of the crazed Monty Python guys, make a movie version of that?

It tends to be ok for gamers that see them as nothing more than "faceless enemies". Just someone to hate and combat. For other gamers is exactly the problem, once equates to prejudice (I hate them just because yes) and prejudice is bad in the real world, and most of time can be equally bad in...

To prevent abuse. If they can do it at will, they will do it at will. If this is fine for you, perfect. But, for me, it is a Pandora Box. :)

For me, it is a matter of repeat the same thing every turn (a save, easy to remember) or increment or decrement a value every turn (number of rounds elapsed). The second one is not really difficult, but requires an "extra operation". Also, if more than one combatant is affected for different...

Well, I do not want neither a teleport cast as an Action or at-will as a ritual. I want it a non-ritual thing that takes at bare minimum 1 minute or more, both needing to spend a slot and forbidding to be used on a combat.

I use a different, but slightly similar mechanics on my games. Everything the players do anything that takes time (search the room for secret doors, loot a treasure, stop to first-aid themselves, &c), I roll a d6. If I did not roll 1, it just take the time nothing more. But next time they delay...