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TheCosmicKid : I really have no idea what you are arguing, because by my reading you contradicted yourself repeatedly throughout your last post. What I do gather is that you don't have some amazing insight into the alignment system that will make it work for me, nor is my argument that it is...

I'm following your own arguments to their logical conclusion. You said that the Grail, visible only to the pure of heart was an alignment call: those with 'Good' written down see it. There's no need to ask the character's player or make a judgement call. You also said that Dr Jekyll wouldn't be...

All I see here are lots of alignment arguments waiting to happen and getting in the way of actually playing. Also - rogues have to be chaotic, because they fight dirty, but barbarians are required to be lawful yet deliberately never ever follow a civilized law? A cleric of a chaotic god must be...

I would just keep tracking hit points deep into the negatives, then have a penalty for them when they come back based on how deep they went. Naturally you don't tell the PCs exactly what will happen, nor do you let them control the moment they come back.

Making 5e deadly is pretty trivial: 1. Instant death on 0hp 2. Don't look at CR or PC level, just chuck random monsters into the game when you feel like it. 3. Change the character creation rules to streamline them. 3d6 in order. Attribute minimums for classes to prevent analysis paralysis (ie -...

Explain how he would set it up then? You just keep asserting that a sane DM wouldn't run things the way I describe them, without actually describing how they would be run or how the alignment system helps. So far it seems like the alignment system would handle these characters by labelling...

This is kind of where the entire weakness of the system comes in: it doesn't distinguish between actions and thought. In this case, a character is evil because he thinks evil thoughts. By this metric, ANY character who is struggling against their inner beast is evil, even if they win each and...

Right, so Dr Jekyll's sheet would have chaotic evil written on it, even prior to him commencing work on his serum? Would a pillaging, murdering orc raider have lawful good written down if he secretly dreamed of helping orphans?

How is "if a character has good written on their character sheet under alignment" any better than you, the DM, simply deciding that character is pure of heart? Or better yet simply asking the player "is your character good of heart?" Would Mr Jekyll see the grail, bearing in mind that Dr Hyde...

In what way are you prevented from running them without alignment? In fact, in what way does alignment help with Jekyll and Hyde at all? The story is about a man who is repressing his evil urges, and therefore seems like a good man to all. But eventually he creates a serum with the express...

It's entirely possible to get fossils made of extremely hard minerals that are far from fragile from real world creatures. Additionally something like dragons or the tarrasque would have to have bones way beyond anything ever found on earth.

Which is why he goes the whole hog: an individual's alignment is almost never clear except from specific points of view and within specific frames of reference, so what value does it actually have except to trigger alignment arguments?

Bumping all character stats is a silly thing to do: it's just going to make the game more difficult for a DM to balance than the base game. Unless you've got darksun and non-darksun characters in the same campaign, it makes no difference apart from that and making multiclassing easier. As for...

I feel like the lifestyle concept is useful at it's core, it's just that the descriptions of the various levels don't match how darksun inhabitants live. And nor does the 'survival gives a comfortable lifestyle'. Mind you, I don't think that works for normal campaigns either. Yeah, I think...

The modern game basically doesn't care what your alignment is. There's 4 exceptions 1. Glyph of warding 2. Spirit guardians 3. The outer planes 4. Sprites who cast heart sight That's really it. They're the only rule interactions. The alignment names are bandied about elsewhere, but they have...

Your -1 ac, but +1 to dex mod just means that most people put their extra ASI in dex and the game remains unchanged (and, ironically, metal armor is useless to them, because they don't get any benefit from wearing it over the athasian versions). If that's what you want, then don't try to make...

Weapons: The whole "metal is worth 100 x normal" makes basically no sense, unless you're going to make metal arms and armor way, way better than they currently are. Last time I played dark sun, not one member of the party had any interest in keeping any metal item we found that wasn't magic...

Sure, but arguing that combat is inevitable still doesn't say anything toward the relative weight of AC vs ability to stealth. If you take 15% more damage over the course of the day, what does that really change, compared with skipping a fight? This comes down to a huge matrix of factors. The 2...

If you are affected by a zone of truth, you know that you are affected, and you can just walk back out again. I wouldn't expect there to be a separate investigator unless it's some other NPC with a heavy investment. That said, I'd expect there to be no shortage of trackers in a stone age...

Whenever I look at these threads, it always feels to me like the default assumptions are: 1. Disadvantage on stealth checks somehow doesn't matter unless you've maxed your dex and are proficient. This isn't true. In fact disadvantage probably hurts those people the least, because they succeed...