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What if the question is really, "I think I'm killing my PCs too often. How often do your PCs die, so I can gauge myself?" That would, unfortunately, change my answer from "multiple times per level." I guess I'd go with "once every 4-5 levels," because I expect some heads to roll, but not so...

@TheAlkaizer nailed it, but . . . I'm going to need info on how to do this myself. This is why "I'm going to run a D&D game, who wants to play" isn't the safest announcement. "I'm going to run a King Arthur-style adventure with D&D" will nip those dinosaur-ideas in the bud. Risky. It's a...

Our OP doesn't clarify the titular question much, except to add that it's related to challenge and deadliness of a campaign. So what we have is . . . what we have (or what I've bothered to dig up from the thread). I guess it boils down to "how often" should PCs die? The "in 5e" part might be...

PC deaths should be based on bad luck and bad decisions, not character level. So I picked "multiple per character level," guessing that's how often some PCs can make bad decisions.

Since you're designing, I'll assume you're not afraid of tinkering. You could use Modos RPG's combat module for band (or smaller) conflict just as easily as individual hero combat. Most of the conversions would just be renaming, like this: Standard Name Modified Name Note Character Unit...

Yeah, it looks like an Achievement to me!

Welcome, stranger! "Even Tolkien?" Anyway, I'm with you on the green-skins being comical. Congrats. Your ilk are here as well 🤓 Amen. Fare thee well.

This is brilliant. Cocaine instead of adrenaline. This, not so much. The frontline is a great place to lose the smartest Kafers. How about the frontline commanders, instead? . . . but this isn't far from human truth. Hence the brilliance. If Kafers somehow survive the first portion of the...

What's the question here? How do you say a group is warlike without making it a genetic thing? Are you using "species" the D&D way or the normal human way? The old-fashioned "warlike orcs" never made much sense to me anyway. The group that lives by constant fighting gets overrun by the...

I don't know why this sent my brain spinning; I'm sure I've heard it before. Leader is a great name for a fantasy archetype. Communication, buffs (like motivation), mobility - great features for a "leader" that not all of the other types would have. I guess popular fiction just makes the...

Always? I know at least one game that allows static results on dice. When that happens, the combat focus moves squarely from luck to tactics Sure, that might not work for you. But there's an entire video game genre (Souls-like) that expects PCs to live to fight another day. So there are...

I'd buy that for a dollar! And I'm suddenly seeing my attraction to my animal-head helmet!

Metaphysical. Take it from another vanity project that spawned well before the announcement of "not 6e." (Hmm. "Not sexy?")

Skyrim Official Game Guide by Prima Games, and of course, donjon.bin.sh

I'd go with the Owlbear. It has this in the "permissions" documentation: For each layer you can control whether your players can create, update or delete those items. For example if you remove the create option from the maps section. (sic) Your players won't be able to add new maps to the...

Hear, hear! So, ability scores do what, roll-under checks? I'd be surprised if D&D had any "mechanics" before 3rd edition. So, it's Alt-Shadowdark?

Well, that makes it easier for WotC to sell D&D Beyond and whatever their Next Great VTT will be. Don't forget character conditions, reactions used, darkvision, spell slots used, 9 tracking sheets, and knowing how character classes work (because a lot of players don't). Cypher system puts...

Game masters are players of RPGs*, yet their experiences are often significantly different from that of player-characters. The traditional GM supplies the setting and outcomes, while the PCs provide the (hopefully) best intentions of the main characters. Some game designers have found that no...

I haven't played enough Savage Worlds to know what it could do for Golarion, but there's a significant reason that Star Wars felt like the SRD/3RD. One could pull out or modify a handful of SRD rules, and there would still be hundreds of D&D-like rules still at play. The Rules Compendium for...

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