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I'm sorry, but from a world building perspective, that doesn't make sense to me. If I want to make a man who's trained 20 years with the halberd but has never laid eyes on plate mail, I need to give him proficiency in plate mail (even if he's never even seen a suit of plate)? Or make him a...

I don't see any inconsistency in your example. If you don't want to give the constable 5 attacks, don't give him 5 attacks. Presumably the GM has a brain and if they give the constable 5 attacks there's some reason for that, such as the constable being one of the world's foremost masters of the...

The game totally allows for those things. You make them an NPC, and they don't have to follow the rules for PC design. Want to make an NPC constable who is proficient with a halberd but can't wear armor heavier than leather. 5e lets you do that. Want to make an urchin with expertise in slight...

My point was more along the lines that the vast majority of pickpockets aren't rogues. If every 5 year old pickpocket got sneak attack and the rogue's compliment of weapon proficiencies, that would be a silly world indeed (IMO).

No. While there's nothing wrong with designing an NPC as a PC, I don't think it makes sense in many cases. If every guard in the campaign is at least a 1st level fighter, then that means they're all proficient in plate mail. Why would Bob, the constable of a tiny, poor fisher town, be...

As much as I'd like to see them slaughter all the sacred cows, there's simply too much value in brand recognition for that to be realistic.

That's true, but not really accurate. Firstly, Rand is an exceptionally powerful channeler, vastly more powerful than virtually all other channelers. Even in the Age of Legends, the Dragon was one of the most powerful channelers, and in the time the books are set even weaker channelers from...

Why wouldn't harnessing the power of magic be just as exhausting as swinging a weapon? It might be mental/spiritual exhaustion, as opposed to physical, but if the DM allows the wizard to cast infinite cantrips but imposes exhaustion on a fighter hacking down a door, that clearly speaks to a...

Yeah, at 5th it's still arguably okay. I do think the gap widens significantly over the course of T2, with spells like Polymorph, and Wall of Force. Fighters would benefit a moderate boost in T2, but primarily in terms of utility, IMO. It's really in T3 where that gap widens to a chasm, with...

If you want the option to run longer adventures (more that 5-8 encounters) or denser adventures (a rescuing a prisoner in a castle dungeon, with multiple encounters in the same day) you might want to have some mechanic in place that allows for quicker rests. Maybe something like fairy circles...

I think the issue is more fundamental than something that can be solved with bigger numbers or the feats that currently exist. Assuming they have the proper support (such as a magic weapon for dealing with monsters that are immune to non-magical damage, or a way to engage with flying enemies)...

I'm partial to the system in Fabula Ultima. You can create effects on the fly, as long as it fits with the theme of your "school" of magic. It can be very costly in terms of mana, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, and the GM can require an appropriate component.

I hit up on this idea a few minutes ago, so I haven't had much time to think about it. However, I think that attunement may disproportionately impact martials, and one possible solution could be to remove attunement from most martial oriented items. Some background. As a result of this thread...

WRT a resource that martials could use, it could be something like Adrenaline. There are real world stories of people performing superhuman feats due in large part to adrenaline, such as mothers lifting cars off their children or people getting themselves out of situations after suffering...

I don't think I'd nerf casters, assuming this is for D&D (and not a heartbreaker). What I would probably do is expand martial skills at low levels, to make them more versatile and well rounded. Around 5th level I'd begin introducing both combat and skill elements that are the peak of what a...

As a software engineer, I can attest that pretty much all of the major anti-virus offerings behave this way. We periodically see problems with various anti-virus acting against our own software (which is an ERP system) on some customer systems. As someone else said earlier, the attitude seems to...

Holmgard Press has been releasing the Lone Wolf reprints at a fair pace (2 books every few months). They're nice books. There's also a new project on Kickstarter, Fortress of Death, which is an interactive audio book, set in Kazan-Oud. It seems to be doing reasonably well (25k at the moment).

When I get stuck trying to come up with an adventure, I'll often ask Chat GPT to create one. It's usually a fairly generic outline, and if I ask it to create a different adventure of the same type, it usually comes back with practically the same thing. However, it is usually enough to overcome...

If I were going to run a no-magic-PCs style campaign, I'd probably just use AIME. There are a few abilities where you might need to decide whether they are appropriate for your campaign (for example, does the master scholar's ability to learn the language of one type of animal constitute magic...

That just means that the choice of route has agency. Look at it this way. If I decided the players will be attacked by a vicious werewolf irrespective of their choice of route, that encounter is illusionism. It doesn't matter if they meet it on day 1 on one route or day 2 on the other. It...