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How does Tolkien and Middle-earth inspire and direct your GMing? it doesn.t. Middle Earth isnt a very good setting for D&D-ish rpging.

It was for the OP. The Tarot deck was invented in the 15th century to play card games. Its use for divination was invented in the 18th century by grifters “occultists”.

Did the party pick those fights or did the plot funnel them there? Was retreat an option a) mechanicalliy or b) narratively ? I wonder if its a software not a hardware issue

Tarot cards: read the wikipedia entry, then do what you want.

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612

For longlived races you can argue that the humanoid sized brain can only hold a few centuries of data. So dwarves can just about remember everything, which makes them officious grudgy gits. Elves however have to edit their memories, which makes them flighty, apparently callous, nitwits.

Yeah you gotta give them green blood and tentacles before genocide is ok. /s?

Thanks. NB: your way is perfectly good as a personal choice and tragically wretched as a corporate default. Also: Brandobras Took was a 4th level fighter with 17 strength who rolled a 20 vs a 2 HD orc.

Tha Eureka ! Ive been trying to articulate what i most loathe about “modern” D&D and youve hit the nail on the head.

The scroll rules as written mean that casters could find lots of scrolls and know loads of spells all the time. Also the scenarios i have in mind are old school and enemy wizard spellbooks are a significant treasure. And i like wizards to be obsessive about their books. And how does a SD wizard...

Im mulling over three changes to Shadowdark 1. Spellbooks Wizards and Witches have spellbooks. The normal spell table shows the number of spells they can have in their head at any one time. They select which spells they want from the spellbooks they own. A book is a slot (Perhaps mighty tomes...

So what if it “limits imagination”?

Thanks for the considered reply. You make a compelling case for making fantasy rpg settings humancentric with relativistic morality.

I dont grasp how “be senstive to the way racist ideologies have portrayed outgroup humans as sub-human” means that halflings shouldnt be +2 Dex -2 str

Ok …. as long as you are judging 90% of human civilisation as evil as well.

Everyone in Discworld is Good, Neutral, or Evil because D&Ds concepts of Law and Chaos are nonsense outside of of D&Ds peculiar cosmology.

DMs feelings about their setting are 5x more important than players feelings about exactly what their character is.

a player with one fixed idea of a character who then demands the dm warp their creation to accomodate it - is a jerk.

Yeah, GM #1 is righteous and GM#2 is weak.

Stats i made an excel that spits out 6 x 3d6 arrays.