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Completely new stuff is easier to put across in a TV series or a book, because you don't need to know any of it going in. You learn by watching. And I'm not saying I'm opposed to GMs inventing completely new and unfamiliar fantasy races and cultures. They can be great to explore in the game. If...

For what little it's worth, I'm a big fan of notChinas and notEgypts and the like. "You see an Ulfrong longboat in the distance" "What's an Ulfrong, GM?" a) "Fantasy Vikings" b) "Didn't you read the 48-page setting guide I shared on Discord? Well, as your character would know, they are a...

Action Options 25 Building Strongholds 19 Crafting Magic Items 22 Encumbrance 22 Feats 30 Healer's Kit Dependency 12 Hitting Cover 20 Initiative Variants 9 Inspiration 15 Massive Damage 22 Mixing Potions 21 Morale 28 More Difficult Magic Item Identification 27 Multiclassing 22 Proficiency Dice...

I'm not really sure I understand the OP question. It seems to imply that everything being made nowadays is new and different. But that's clearly not the case. Remakes seem to be more common than ever, and most stories retread familiar themes and familiar structures. If you don't want a lot of...

I don't think most players are qualified to vote in this poll, since they'd have to know what the rules in the book actually say

Don't worry, you're not at all alone in this sentiment. I have somewhere a book about art history written in the late 19th century, I'll see if I can dig it out later. It's written very much from the perspective that art can be objectively rated in quality, and classical sculpture was seen as...

In principle, I like to limit races to very few options, and those the most vanilla. The reason is to enable the game to have a sense of the fantastic. One the characters set out on their grand adventures they can uncover the strange and mysterious wonders of the world. That doesn't work if the...

I require my players to address me as 'My Lord and Master', but I will accept 'Your Eminence' if it's delivered in a suitably reverent tone.

When I'm making my fantasy worlds, I like to lean heavily into the traditional stereotypes, but I will also have populations that subvert the tropes. But they're not things you create as a PC at the beginning. They're the ones that you discover when the party has to go on some adventure forcing...

'If you would like to use a d10 damage die for melee attacks you cannot use a shield' is the greatest disadvantage of all?

I don't know much about Norse myths, but the 'short' part is right there in the name. 'Dwarf' and it's various cognates are believed to come from a proto-Germanic word for 'small'.

...for the last five decades. I've got some old White Dwarf magazines from the seventies where people in the letters pages get quite worked up over the question of how someone could survive fire breath to the face in a narrow dungeon corridor!

Other countries have laws too! I imagine that their lawyers reviewed their primary markets to confirm whether the local regulations surrounding competitions and creator's rights were compatible with what they had planned. But it's not practical to understand every jurisdiction in the world; and...

There's been several voices raised to the gist of 'don't do this', so I just wanted to pop in with a bit of encouragement to OP to ignore them all, in case they're starting to make you question your judgement. OP asked us for suggestions on how to implement an idea. If you don't like the idea...

As little as possible. The character sheet should contain everything you need to reference, and nothing else. I've been fiddling around trying to make a one-page sheet for 5e, including the spells. Obviously it's impossible to put on there spell descriptions as well, but I would hand out spell...

I wouldn't even allow someone to start reading unless they could demonstrate a decent familiarity with the 2000-post long first edition of the halfling thread from a few months ago.

The difference to joining a conversation at a social gathering is that the newcomer doesn't hear a snippet of what you were talking about 3 hours ago before butting in. I think I would quickly try to extricate myself from a conversation where, every 30 seconds, someone new joined and repeated...

Gaining exhaustion due to skipping a long rest is something I just imposed on player's anyway. It's one of those things I don't even consider a house rule; but a straightforward and obvious ruling.

I AM A GOD! I created everything! All of this! On a whim. I am the Alpha and the Omega. The vital force of existence. I am that which gives meaning to the poorly-acted caricatures you stat up. Your characters exist solely to give ME amusement, and if they fail in this, I can end them.