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Lizard- That is a very clever idea! I like it. A little concerned that tracking multiple wound conditions could become cumbersome but that is more an implementation concern than a swipe at the concept. As for "only pc's get healing over night"- I could go either way on this. On one hand...

Crazy Jerome- this is exactly what I envisioned as an end-state for the story line where the players decide to help the god of death and thwart the god of healing.

This was less an idea about how hitpoints are abstractions and more of an idea on how those that are having trouble with the hitpoints as abstraction can deal with the apparent contradictions between heal overnight and hp as wounds concepts. By involving a higher power it smooths over the...

So after 6 hours of rest PC's are fully healed. Lots of people have trouble with this. Perhaps there is a better way to deal with the issue. Make it a plot device! The god of healing, getting a bit too big for her britches, long ago implemented this plan. Every creature not dead heals...

I found the precise distance relationships in 3e to seriously hinder immersive combats. Specifically, an rp intense situation that transitioned to combat immediately broke from the story-driven feel to a wargame feel. I lay a lot of this immersion breaking at the feet of the 5' step and the...

cash mechanic On Carrying Cash: The Living Greyhawk series sort of explained the whole "carry ten tons of gold to pay for a magic sword" thing. The gold wasn't actually accumulated so much as the adventurers accumulated favor or possibly some gems and used the purchase price of high end magic...

Rat-Men Sorry for the back-to-back posts. Just saw the RatMen idea. Yuan-ti still the main river traders. But the RatMen have WAY too much coolness to leave sit idle, so they occupy a different niche. Yanking halflings completely. The RatMen can easily use the halfling character traits...

Yuan-Ti The reinvisioning of the Yuan-Ti is BRILLIANT! Out go halflings. Never liked the little kicktoys anyway. Every player made them Tasslehoff knock-offs. The primary waterway traders are now Yuan-ti! Sure, noone likes the Yuan-ti. They are suspected of all manner of evils. Noone...

stat generation We go around the table, everyone rolls 4d4+2 once, until we have 6 stats. Then everyone uses this set, assigning as the stats where they want. The excitement of random scores, everyone has equal stat-power, and slightly higher than average scores. I also use the same stat...

DS for 4ed I have been running the DS Original Boxed Set as the start point for years. Always felt that although the supplement books (Veiled Alliance, Dune Traders, etc) were some of the strongest material ever written for any setting the PP and other additions were just garbage. Ran the...