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Have you noticed any common themes in such works? Speaking as someone who prolly hasn't been exposed to as much Animé / Manga / Japanese RPGs as others.

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Certainly a sensible interpretation. It's just that then I'd have had to write a number of different rambling, poorly edited descriptions for each item instead of just one tortured, general explanation of orchicalcum-ness. And I'm all about not working that hard 😁

It's just one if those things that affects PCs very disproportionately. PCs are often dependant on their items to highly variable degrees. A PC caster who loses access to their Wand of Magic Missiles probably doesn't care all that much. A character who suddenly loses their only source of...

2nd level seems about right to me. While it's a potentially powerful effect, it's also highly circumstantial. I'd be very careful about when and where to use it against PCs though.

I use both mithral and adamantine in my games as well. And items made from those (in my worlds) are almost always magic so that's more of a baseline. In this case, I wanted something from an alien culture on an alien world.... so wanted a different material.

Unfortunately in a game context, that would make it mechanically similar or identical to mithral, which would defeat the point

Yeah, that was one of the major types of "bronze" in the ancient world. Unfortunately it had a tendency to quickly kill (or permanently debillitate) the metalworker. One of the major reasons behind the transition to iron was that the materials to make iron were everywhere. Ironworking predates...

Tell me of this....EDITING... you speak of :LOL:

So I wanted to introduce a weapon made of an unusual magical metal for an upcoming game. Orichalcum seemed like a suitable legendary type. The only problem is - what exactly makes orichalcum special and unique? In the real world it was likely some sort of bronze or brass alloy. I believe...

I don't know if it helps at all, but at least as long as you're not trying to run Adventurer's League or something similar, you're entirely free to introduce your own NPCs, plots, subplots, and the like on top of the published material. You can substitute or replace stuff with your own homebrew...

I'd very much like to see an updated Dark Sun. But I'm concerned that WotC would bowdlerize the setting. As evidenced by the discussion of "problematic" content.

The way I look at things is not from an ethical standpoint, but a character development and reward standpoint. On my own, I tend to favor gritty, grey-on-grey morality settings. But as DM, I consider it to be my duty to help facilitate personal goals for every player character. That is to...

Hmm. Kinda variable for me. Altogether a threatening villain with a compelling backstory who manages to be either legitimately lethal and challenging, or funny, when finally confronted? Ran an adventure once where the PCs ran afoul of the machinations of a bigoted, and obsessively vengeful...

Last night.

Last Saturday. I made some questionable (overly narrow) rulings on how to progress the party goals (end the haunting on an undead-infested ruin), failed to provide sufficient clues as to what was going on. Then compounded the problem by emphasizing / leading certain potential choices. I'm...

Thanks for the ideas, everyone!

Was not intended as such. Yes, but then discussion has previously revolved around metagaming. Or at least the parts I've personally read. In-game social consequences for breaking mores would be entirely appropriate regardless of any potential metagaming in my view.

I have no doubt the cannibals were quite offended. And in the event they survived an encounter with such uncouth murder hobos would have spread tales far and wide about such poor table manners to any future dinners. "Yeah...so the old beggar who's missing the arm and leg wrinkles his nose at...

Strange. Here in the real world we have all sorts of different standards of polite behavior - such as taboos against line crashing, tail gating, or using language considered obscene, for example, that are nevertheless violated all the time. A much more typical response to these social...