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I really do not like replacing species with cultures that have mechanics tied to them. That easily gets way more offensive than the species having different rules ever did. Like to me it far less problematic to say that all bears have certain characteristics that are different than...

Well, if you want do that, then you do not need to have non-human sapients at all. I think the point of non-humans are that they are some way different than humans, otherwise they would just be humans!

I think caps are better than bonuses or penalties if you use point buy. That's what I did in my houserules. I have maximums and minimums and then point buy. Everyone gets what they pay for, fair and square, the species just sets some limits. With point buy the bonuses are basically just a...

My theoretical preference is for the PC and NPC rules to work similarly ar at least very closely so. I however understand that this is often impractical and in many cases the PC stats have a lot of information that is just not needed for a NPC mook #6. So I'm fine with streamlining the NPC rules...

I have been uncomfortable how D&D has portrayed some species for decades. Literally having evil versions of species you can recognise by their (usually darker) skin tone is so obviously offensive that I am amazed it ever got written. They're moving away from that, though I still think in awkward...

Cool. Then you can buy your character a horse and roleplay that it is a dragon.

Yes, but that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about, say, a totem warrior barbarian taming a wyvern and having it as a pet. Once you have build in pets as part of the power budget of some classes and subclasses, you cannot really do that any more.

That's not how it works. The dedicated pets are not stronger, often they are weaker. Such class invests a huge chunk of their "power budget" into the pet, whereas a petless class uses all of that budget for the character. So now if you let a petless class get an NPC pet, power of that pet is all...

And as they can do that to proper dragons, they obviously aren't overshadowed by them. No. You can just ride proper dragons and then everyone is not forced to play the same subclass to do so!

Then don't have a dragon as a pet! Dragons are known for being among the most powerful creatures around. Yeah, that's how things go wrong. The purpose of the rules is to mechanically represent the lore, and once they stop doing that they serve no purpose. But it would at least be roughly...

No I would want to use that as that's what dragons are. As you cannot include a proper dragon into a class' power budget, you shouldn't do "dragon as pet" class. And ultimately I think that "pet classes" are not a good design idea, as it then effectively limits having an useful pet to those...

Dwarves are one of the classic fantasy species that I do not "get." I have never found them particularly appealing (not that I really dislike them either) and there is significant chance that if I make a version of dwarves that is appealing to me, I accidentally eradicate what dwarf fans liked...

As in my setting Artra dragons are more dinosaur like, I combined the lizardfolk and dragonborn.

I haven't checked the DH since the early playtest. How does it work?

In my current campaign the PCs have met only one proper royal. He was the Crown-Prince of Marut, the son of the Priest-King. He was leading an invading army, and the characters killed him and stole the Sun Spear, a royal relic. This has an impact to the Marutian succession, but it is unclear...

I got into Tolkien and RPGs about the same time. I read LotR first, when I was maybe ten or so, and got MERP shortly after (not super good first RPG for kids!) Before that I had already played Hero Quest boardgame, which has some RPG elements. I love Tolkien and he was a big influence for my...

Nah, that seems far more realistic than most things in FR. Business interest triumphing over ethics. Like it basically is very clever (probably accidental) social commentary.

This is the key. Just frame the characters directly in midst of an interesting situation. It might be a bit railroady, but I think perfectly justified in these circumstances. Get to the action from the get go, cutting out all the waffling.

I think that was the best part.

Though player elves rarely are that old. Super long lived species are weird in D&D though. You might have live couple of centuries, and still be level one, then gain a bunch of levels in a very short period of time. What have you been doing with you life until that point?