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You can make an RPG monster book setting neutral by coming up with some general lore for each monster that is a couple paragraphs long. Paizo was able to do for its' 6 Bestiaries in Pathfinder 1st edition (Pathfinder 2nd's Bestiaries otoh are setting specific). Ditto for Level Up's 2 Monstrous...

A player can certainly do this in 5e or in Level Up without any mechanical benefit for their character. It's been done countless times in D&D.

It's also nice when the VTT does the math for you. ;)

A player role-playing as a Fighter could try to aid their party by exploring or socially interacting with others during an adventure. There is nothing stopping the player from doing anything with these two adventuring pillars. However, the player is left with the question, how does the Fighter...

I think I would go deep with this method in an attempt to create a caster who focused on a particular set of spells. If I wanted to be a Dwarven Geomancer Wizard, for instance, I would pick spells that involve Earth or could be reskinned to have an earthy feel about them. Yes. It could lead to...

Another nod to D&D would be that the Hunters in the anime come in six different class types: * Assassins https://solo-leveling.fandom.com/wiki/Assassin * Fighters https://solo-leveling.fandom.com/wiki/Fighter * Healers https://solo-leveling.fandom.com/wiki/Healer * Mages...

You don't really need to have the Battlemaster as a universal subclass in order to give everybody access to that subclass's combat maneuvers. All you really need to do is to have that access as a class feature for all of the martial classes. Level Up already does this for its' martial classes...

Most people does include those who actively and systematically generate knowledge. The scientific method is not error free.

See @EzekielRaiden 's comment about cooking being an art and a science. If you decide to be a professional cook in RL, your culinary skills do require learning and using science. Primarily biology and chemistry. Science deals with trial and error. It's not an alternative to trial and error.

Homebrewed idea: Circlet of the Wise. This simple metal head band provides a +2 to WIS saves.

If your character wasn't wearing armor, wouldn't an armor save be the same thing as a DEX save?

Spellcasting and skill checks do use the same mathematical equation. d20+ PB + Ability Score modifier.

Or thinking that way could lean towards something better when you level up. ;)

For me, its convenience and geographic constraints. Most of my role-playing group lives down in Texas while me and one other player live up near the Great Lakes. So, participating in an online TTRPG is very convenient for all of us. Then there are the online tools such as D&D Beyond, Heroforge...

More like around the three pillars of adventuring- combat, social interaction and exploration. Magic can certainly support all three with the right spell or spells. Magic use outside of that is usually in the background. Sometimes it's noticed, but most times it's just implied. As a native to a...

They could always bring back nonlethal damage for every time a spellcaster casts a spell. Especially a spell they are not ready for. :p

Arcane magic would almost have to be a science. Through trial and error, an arcane spellcaster would have to figure out which words of power, hand gestures, and material components could work together to produce the desired effect. They would also be trying to figure out new ways to cast old spells.

Like in an Urban Fantasy novel. :) In the Allison Beckstrom series by Devon Monk, magic had been 'discovered' 30 years prior to the first book, Magic to the Bone. In this Urban Fantasy series, magic use came with a price (in earlier editions of D&D, this price would be considered nonlethal...

Then there is Collegiate Culture in Level Up. https://a5e.tools/rules/collegiate One of the Studied disciplines of Collegiate culture is Magic.

And to the point where they are almost indistinguishable from one another.