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A critical hit is an abstraction of a blow against a vital location which speeds up taking enemies out of the fight.

More accurately "Reality Bites" Ignoring COVID 19 here between real life and computer games/Internet distractions , attention spans and a hundred other things its increasingly hard to get a steady group together to play for long periods of time. Up until maybe the 90's it wasn't uncommon to...

Depends on the game world. One type are essentially Scro from Spelljammer though they hail from Mars. These scared my players but good. There are no half orcs in this setting but there are beast men who serve a similar role. Another kind are just big mean Goblins ala Tolkien. There are...

I can respect your POV here IME campaign integrity never survives the inclusion of players. :p That said if I can't trust my players not to make the game less fun for everyone else with a wish, they don't get one so in a way we are on the same page.

Different strokes I guess. I'd probably walk from the table after that since it comes on as "Jerk DM" Let the player have his fun. He earned it. YMMV of course and if your players are fine with it? Good on all of you. Also I usually don't crock wishes except in rare cases. Otherwise players...

I've never seen it in decades of play. The largest party I've ever seen was 12 but this was a gang of rogues and there were actually 12 players, Never again.

I use point buy but I'd certainly allow the standard array. I don't use rolled stats though, they don't give steady results and are often too weak or two strong. For comparison. in 3x I used 32 point buy , 25 in PF 1E and in older editions I just let the players do whatever they like as I tend...

Basically the same here. Once and a while though I really enjoy playing a character. Unfortunately even when face to face was default getting more than a few sessions in was difficult as someone was champing at the bit to DM. This means less fum for me in both cases and often as not when this...

Typically I've been seeing the opposite problem, everybody wants to run the system they like, in the world they like and has no patience for actually playing a character more than a few sessions. People tend to find something else to do and combined with real life is destructive to building...

Mystery meat showed up in an AGE game I played in as a kind of gnomish running gag. It didn't matter that much.

America education often doesn't cover mythology or ancient religions at all in large parts if the country . Back in the day that the DDG was first published it was assumed that any likely D&D player had read Edith Hamilton's Mythology which covered Greece/Rome and the Norse myths. It was sort...

I do not think D&D could be created today and some alternate world or maybe nightmarish dystopia where Gygax and Arneson never existed would not have anything like modern RPG's and that includes computer games. We's have sims and piloting games and star ship tactical games but probably no...

Nah. Elmore was married in 1971 probably before most people on this board were born. Another counter example Boris Vallejo modeled his wife Julie Bell for a very long time back I think in the 70's as well You can search his works for yourself, Frank Frazetta was married in the 1950's In...

I do much the same.

You can stray as far as your players enjoy or if you are making a product, people will buy. Do what you like. FWIW personal preference is "very human-centric or only humans."

Interesting topic . Till 5e's changes my main D&D /GURPS world had a very magic centric style of warfare that vaguely resembles modern infantry warfare with mostly medium infantry in small units supported by spell casters. Its basically slow maneuver warfare with weak signal capacity...

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I see what you mean. The options I posted plus taverns and optionally indentured servants and guilds would meet your criteria. I have two major game homebrew game worlds. One is a very kitchen sink world though plagued with regular near apocalypses . In that world you might have any kind of...

There are no typical major cities in my game worlds. Too much variation. Waste removal , cleanish water and markets are basically what it takes to qualify as a city if big enough. Also quite common are public executions and/or judicial slavery as well as walls. Churches are a bit of an odd...

My experiences with PbtA was with Monster of the Week not DW if it matters. Now our GM did a great job given how busy he was with real life at the time but the game just didn't click for me and felt far more structured than I want in a game, doubly so for Avatar. PbtA seems really strange...