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It is not always about abuse - but what players do must matter and if it doesn't matter, the players will notice and start to act accordingly. If encumberance is not enforced over short or long most players will just carry 500+ pounds of equipment- because they just stop caring about removing...

5e has that to a degree. The more important something is, the more you want skill proficiency, your degrees of strength to matter, the more skill checks you need to implement. Because the more skill checks you make, the more statistically relevant become the boni to your skill. So for a simple...

My design philosophy would be, that everything that a normal human (outside of combat) could do is in the "Arnesonian Space" or at least in a very rules lite approach. So, everything like talking, climbing, mimicking voices, hiding in the shadows, stealing ... 5e allows for that in the sense...

Hrm, I think some people misunderstood the Bastion system. Or I do ... The Bastion hirelings are not NPCs or Player-NPCs. Nobody is really controlling them. They are a game mechanic. You need them so your rooms produce them. The player decides what the room produces. But everything else is done...

In the spelljammer game I'm running now as a DM, the Ship is basically the base and I just give the players options to upgrade their ship - if they have the money or ressources ... Maybe I feel like that those are issues because I prefer a more simulationist approach to my D&D games and dislike...

At least they seem to have gotten rid of bastion points, but damn it is still a stupid system. Hard Level Caps, Bastion turns, Meta-Limits on how much or what you can make that ate not supported by Ingame-Reality ... A good system doesn't need all that. Just give us a list of "rooms", with...

In an Ideal DMG you present the intent first, like "The Current rules of 5e2024 make for an Heroic playerwishfullfilment RPG, were Character Death is something that will rarley happen. If you want more Gritty Realism and Simulatism the following Variant Rules can reach that goal: Variant Rest...

D&d 5e and 2024 5e some mechanics, that are getting worse the more they are implemented. The most obvious are Temp. HP and Advantage. Temp. HP and Advantage are quite nice Designs, but the more feats use those mechanics, the more worthess each implementation becomes. Because players will always...

The difference are actually the end conditions. Hiding grants the invisible condition and add its own end conditions while the spell invisibility grants you the invisible condition with a different set of end conditions. The conditions to end invisibility are different and separate from the...

The problem is, that this is already worse then the 2014 version. Which differentiates between Invisible (a condition) and hiding (a mechanic/rule set). The only thing going for the 2024 version is, that it is shorter.

Thanks It depends. When I make the lyrics myself it can be 2 or 3 tries per 33 second chunk. When I let the AI make the lyrics it can take much longer. It also depends on the Genre and if the AI can understand what you want to do. Like ... in the one campaign the Bard found a "Dudeldachs"...

So - Players being players - they won more easily than expected. But they did it in a deserving way. So, the Night Scavver they saw at the end of the last session disappeared back into the asteroid field and hurled a small asteroid onto the players - while they were busy with deflecting that...

After making pictures with just some words, AI can now make songs with just a few prompts. I was astonished how far that came so quickly again. Just some month ago Music AI could do some seconds ... and now they can do full songs. Everybody can try it out at www.udio.com You can put in your...

So, in my last campaign, I had the following magic shops: - Nala Goodmothers Shop - a (totallt not a necromancer) mage, that was run out of her nation because of the experiments she did to try bring back her family - she set up shop at the Dwarfen Stronghold Bergstadt (English: Mountain City)...

It all comes down to the math. If you go raw and use the magic item prices from the DMG or Xanathar and use the random treasure tables, a character will approximately find the same ratity class of magic items that they can find in an adventure. So the moment a character who finds a +1 sword can...

Hrm, it would be pretty hard to find a sapient being in D&D 5e that doesn't have or isn't a soul. Even elementals and devils are souls themselves. Of course you can change that in your Homegame as you which. But D&D 5e makes a difference between the Animus/spirit and the Soul. Like speak with...

So, after seeing and participating in the Dall-E makes amazing AI Art Thread I think a thread for Art made by humans and other real people is in order. So, here you can show the D&D/Fantasy Art you made and share it with the forum to celebrate humans making art! It doesn't need to be perfect, it...

Of course it can change. Beauty standards are twofold. Biological and social. And on an biological level for example though thighs, wide hips are a signal of fertility and an ability to easily have children. And also what we see on film/hollywood/popular culture is not the beauty standard of...