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I think this fits my framework.

This may be the closest to what I am talking about.

A valid point, but if we accept the existence of Underdark races, then they should have tactics relevant to their domain, Underground strongholds seem believable and thematic.

I actually love all these ideas! But they are not what I am talking about.

Some of these are a bit closer to what I am talking about. But my proposal gives a reason why dungeons are NOT unusual or ruins. They are underground strongholds like above ground castles. They are more permanent and justifiable.

I have not played 13th Age, but from what I can research, this seems the opposite of what I'm proposing. Dungeons as staging areas for the Underdark are the opposite of "out there".

Dungeons have been a mainstay of our favorite game. More than that, some commentators have argued that dungeons in OD&D and AD&D were a key component of the game's success, namely a laser focus on a specific kind of play. Enter the dungeon, kick open doors, kill monsters, loot treasure. A...

The 1e Fiend Folio gets a bad rap for filler monsters, but people forget the iconic monsters it spawned: Aarackocra, Giths, Bullywugs, Drow, Smirvneblin, Kenku, Kuo-Toa, Asian Dragons, and so on. My personal favorites were the Bloodworm and Penanggalan, which populated a literal river of blood...

The cult Avalon Hills board game Magic Realm is an outdoor hexcrawl will all kinds of crazy channeling, monster hunting, and treasure looting. Totally a megadungeon.

In my 1e type campaign, I'm working towards having the main races be more than rubber-forehead humans. I got stuff for elves and dwarves that I like. I'm made gnomes a partner race to the dwarves who live above ground, meaning that gnomes are seem more frequently than dwarves in my campaign. I...

This is an interesting comment. From the legends of King Arthur to the realities of the U. S. of A., there is a goal of "a nation of Laws, not Men," that is, a Lawful society regardless of the people. So the concept of Lawful society exists. The opposite is not what I'd call a Chaotic society...

Again, I'm sorry, but defining Chaos as some form of warped Law just explains why actual human Chaos can't exist. Chaos societies that are interesting and strange need to be defined without any reference to Law. Which is hard given human minds!

5e HP bloat is entirely a function of the 5e obsession with "balance" and centering combat. Get rid of this and HP bloat disappears. For example: A 5e vampire has 144 HP on average, a 1e vampire 39 (!?). That seems crazy, right? But a 1e vampire drains 2 character levels per melee hit, only...

I'm sorry, but your definition of Chaos is incoherent, and you say so in the above quote! Requiring "plenty of Law" is exactly why Chaotic societies do not exist in reality. "Individual rights and freedoms" is not Chaos, that's Law securing such rights. A Chaotic society must eschew any...

I posted a thread similar to this. Let me just leave this comment on how I worked out a specific question I had. My biggest question was how would you define a Chaotic Good society, which has been canon for elves since 1e? It would have to be very strange, one that a human society could...

This question seems very group dependent. If your group wants cinematic discrete adventures, you don't need much gold. In the ancient past of 1e, there were tons of things to spend money on, a mix of carrots and sticks. Some sticks included: 1) mandatory upkeep spending (100 gp/level); 2)...

This, and my 1e campaign does end with PCs around 12-13th level. But you want higher level NPCs for challenges more interesting than most monsters.

It looks like we will be getting a Sci-Fi Fantasy setting from the Worlds of Web DM: The Big One

I assume you are referring to Dragon #56. That version of Bard drops thieving abilities, which I do not like, but is otherwise fine. Frankly, the very original Bard from Strategic Review Vol. II No. 1 was solid, very much the jack-of-all-trades. The mess of 1e seems to have been a way to limit...

I'm so old the survey made me prove I know the rules to 5e! It asked if I knew what advantage was!