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So how are monsters having less HP, or PCs doing more damage not addressing the issue?

Just a side note, to encourage the use of spears in a Greek campaign. In the past, I have allowed anybody with a 2-handed spear or polearm to use their reaction to attack somebody that comes in range, like Polearm Mastery. If they do so, they give up their action next turn. It means that...

Because I like the imagery, for a divine based scroll, I'd allow the person to read/pray it, then attach it to their armor, like a Space Marine's or Warhammer Warrior Priest's Purity Seal. The shield would activate on the first remotely legitimate attack they face. It's not balanced, or RAW...

OK, ,,...,,..,,,.? ,., ,,..,,.? !,,, ......, .,. ,,,...! There you go :) I agree, but it did capture the feeling of somebody bursting into a room in a fit of excitement and blurting out "OMG You won't believe what just happened!..." My internal sub-vocalization always reads posts like that...

As a player, it feels pretty crappy when you accidentally kill an ally or decapitate innocent guards during a misunderstanding. What is it you are looking to add to the game through adding in a chance of random unintentional homicide? As a GM I would like for PCs to have a chance to fail to...

IMC the world has a red Hunter's Moon, it has an erratic orbit, whenever it is in ascendancy in the sky, whether it is day or night people tend to avoid conflict or stay indoors. Damage in increased by 25% and HP are lowered by 25%. This adds a way for PCs to know if I plan on using those rules...

I don't know the particulars of course, but I don't see that necessarily being a problem with the GM myself. PC makes a Streetwise roll, does not do well, GM says "OK you know a guy that sells grenades but he is in the next city over, it would take you 3hrs to get there and back. Remember your...

I like settings on the cusp of change. In my games everybody can see that firearms are about to overtake the world, but they have not yet. Firearms are simple weapons to use, everybody is proficient so that is their big selling point at this stage. Real warriors use bows, to better effect, but...

Personally I just love the d6 system for all high-tech combat-light settings. The main appeal is that all skills are covered by their broad catagories. You can specialise a bit, but everybody knows exactly what their skill in "reversing the polarity and causing a nutrino wave" is. High-tech...

In my experience so far, 5th works pretty well with rolled stats for the most part. Rolled stats generally make a +1/-1 to hit difference if they are high/low, or maybe some secondary saves are better. That is just not a big deal, for most classes. Rolled stats also can make MAD classes work...

If all but one PC dies, isn't the natural thing to do to say that that campaign is over? Even if you want to try and tie the new adventurers into the campaign, they are still a new group. I would think the barbarian has to role up a new character too. He has nothing to complain about, he just...

I had a similar short lived event in my game and the dwarven warrior/smith/runesmith died in his set of platemail. His soul bound to the armor and he became a ghost/animated-armor. This meant the he was not ethereal and not resistance to damage, he just picked up abilities like not needing to...

Just FYI I've fired a lot of tracers and they don't supply any meaningful illumination. All they do is let you see where your bullet went. You can't even see what, if anything it hit. You certainly can't see anything between you and it in any meaningful way. I once fired a small belt of tracers...

What about if the ghost cannot regain HP at all by normal methods? Every night at midnight he reanimates completely healed (even if he was dead) where ever his ancestral sword/mages staff is.

Just a sidenote to the OPs original objective about making magic rare but meaningful. In my experience, making something rare in and of itself makes it more powerful. A few cases in point: - Infantry do not allow for fireballs, so group up a lot tighter in battlefield formations. - Nobody has...

Other than using performance as Oratory skill for making speeches, it really has no practical use in games I have seen. It is more on par with a tool proficiency in usefulness, and I would tend to allow people to take it in a limited form in place of such e.g. Performance (Poetry). It can be...

Having PCs captured and losing their stuff, or losing their blessings etc is normally a bit of a dick move as far as balance goes. It sounds like they would be OK with it though, so that obstacle is likely removed. Why not just have the bad guys get one over on them, they escape a few months...

By the time your spell book has 100 pages of spells in it, it is in and of itself a magic item. It thousands of gold worth of magical ink in it and hundreds of years of spell research and arcane runes inscribed in it. If it can't float, turn its own pages, add pages in and repair coffee stains...

I would say that the Ogrillion/Orogs are orcs with some degree of ogre in their bloodline, not half-ogres. They are to half-ogres what Tiefling are to Cambions. As for Orogs being tougher in the book, that is a bit odd. I would just tinker with that a bit.

<Whoops, necro post. Had my search in a different window and got mixed up, sorry> My PCs came into a room. It is clear that something is bad here, there are a handful of adventurer corpses. They appear to be covered in rust, as is much of the floor. There are three rust covered chests at the...