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I’ve used The One Ring RPG’s system (1st edition) to make a homebrew version of Twilight Imperium RPG (faction-based epic space opera boardgame), and the 2nd edition for a homebrew Star Wars RPG. In the later case, I swapped the roles of cultures (species) and callings (classes). Both worked...

That is science. It’s the science of this setting. Scholars gathering and cataloguing empirical information, posing hypotheses, proving them true, and subjecting their discovery to the review of their peers would get those « facts »

I'm a big sucker for settings with a consistent and coherent ecology/geology. Note that consistent and coherent does not need to be indisputably realistic, and things don’t need to be realistic to be relatable. Ultimately, "relatable" is what I’m truly going for. Magic can be part of a...

Well yeah, i mean that is obvious… … wait, what?

For a while I’ve been contemplating making a RPG adaptation of the XCOM franchise. Basically, a modern to near-future sci fi urban warfare based RPG The battle mechanic could almost be ported directly from the xcom2 game using a roll-under d100 system, though converting to d20 would also be...

That's true. I'm of two minds about that. On one hand, I'd like to emulate stories where injuries present an extra layer of challenge. On the other hand, injuries tend to come up often in RPG - at least how we tend to play them in North America my French friends would say - and for lack of...

Any samples or preview for the Geologist/Herbalist Primers (couldn't see one from website)? That could be right in my alley but hard to tell if it's something I'd find useful/tasteful.

Only two or three games in, but the consensus at the table is that it looks like it's gonna be a positive gain from the 2014 edition once we gather some momentum, because at the moment it's slooooooow. Many, many little modifications that do not drastically change anything but makes us doubt...

My thoughts are that it would incite alignment debates and encourage disruptive behaviour, which are two things I truly hate. Players being jerks and pointing to their alignment to explain « that’s how my character would react » is something I cannot stand, never mind getting some sort of...

Joke aside, by the rules, you will be able to have long rests before midnight again. Just not tomorrow. So in D&D, if you go to bed too late, your next night might not finish a long rest if you have to get up early. You’ll have the benefit of a short rest, but not a long one. In short in D&D...

As I tend to dial down to a 6 or 7 what I often feel D&D has cranked to 11, I often reduce the size of giants. An 8-foot dude weighting close to a ton and wielding the equivalent of a 10-inch diameter baseball bat should be f*****g terrifying, there is no need to go all the way to 15-20 feet...

From a player perspective, I’m willing to track two types of coins (usually silver and gold). Everything else is just a value of silver and gold. Now, i like when the DM colours the world with electrum and copper and platinum but ultimately, they are just X silver or gold on my character sheet...

Since updated rules for downtime and crafting in Xanathar, I don’t think I even opened it. I read it through and trough when I first got it, used it a bit for magic items. It was definitely a useful book but it lost its relevance as more and more supplements got published.

That's one of my preferred takes on high-level play. I don't think that that alone is enough to solve the OP's issues, but I know it partially solves mine (although so far it my solution has been simply not to play at levels where PCs have spells 6th-9th level...)

As said earlier, a lot of players come to 5e for all its bells and whistles for their characters; so knowing what your players think of all this is crucial to the conversation. otherwise the easiest and least disruptive way to power down 5e is to keep to low and low-mid levels. Limiting...

Not sure how it really went, but this looks to me like a good example of a respectful comment/disapprobation on the DM's world-building. I hope the DM was able to be a good sport about it and either a) change his views or b) accept that there won't be cleric PCs (and not punish the players for...

A character can have an adversarial relationship with their patron god/goddess - that's an interesting (if potentially disrupting) RP avenue - but as long as I don't perceive animosity from the player I don't see it as an affront to my work (when we can call it as such). That implies that the...

A comment/disapprobation isn't necessarily disrespectful but otherwise yes, as a DM I tend to see a player going against the tenets of a religion (as opposed to a character going against those tenets) as a comment/disapprobation on my world-building. Sometimes I got to agree with the player in...

Also, an easy non-rule to make D&D gritty is simply to keep it at levels 1-7 (ish) without pulling punches from the opposition (in terms of CR). PCs don't always have to be the biggest captains in the sky...

That certainly is a technique to bring grit to the table... and to ensure the DM makes life more difficult for players thereafter!