One of the main ones we settled on was how to qualify for classes (or races) with min. Score requirements.
Somewhere along the line we'd already settled on the 4d6Keep3 method still in use today.
This was amended to:
If you want to play a class with min score requirements, 1st place any rolls...
At least with the Illuminate watcher types they MIGHT actually be seeing {something}. After all, there ARE people who're plotting things, acting suspicious, etc. Add in a dose of imagination &/or crazy on the viewers end &....
That's why in both my PF games where I've done this I've made two completely different characters.
In one of the games the two characters weren't even allies, let alone friends. PC2, being a legally convicted criminal was legally enslaved to PC1 (well, his order anyways), had zero love for #1...
Ah. They've released too many similarly titled books AND I wasn't buying D&D books in the late '90s. So if you use the wrong title is it any wonder I can't parse what you meant?
Maybe.
But we just played a round of such wishful thinking this time last year..... Hasn't turn out so well.
How about this time we take things more seriously & see how that works?
This is true that it will still cover a 3x3 area
Not if I, the DM, say otherwise. And I have done this. Shockingly the world did not end, and our game proceeded quite smoothly.
This would be an inconvenience.
You know how we handled it? We put the mini on the map anyways & just ignored any...
Does this lack of a plan here in the USA surprise you in any way?
AT BEST the three ring circus of incompetence in charge hasn't taken any of this seriously since before it started.
At worst....
So why would they have a plan?
Back in my original B/X & 1e days we frequently had multiple characters. Usually a main character & an extra. This practice varied though on how many players we had.
Later on we all generally had multiple characters, but they weren't played simultaneously. Rather we'd pick who went on a...