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I like this idea and use parts of it at my table. I don't like the added effects in combat. The combat system works very well as it is, and I don't think it's wise to throw a spanner into it. Your combat boons, for example, are very, very powerful, and duplicate sought-after powers. But I...

There's a list of holidays in his last link, as well as here.

I see no reason why it'd have to be appreciably different than Medieval or Early Modern real-world armies. Finding sufficient supplies of clean potable water along the route of march is impossible. Historical armies relied on water at their peril, hence the rations of weak beer (or wine), as...

This is a thing many of us have struggled with since the 80s. I like the idea of mechanical impacts of alignment, determined by how a character is played. For example, a cleric or paladin should match their deity in terms of alignment, and if their alignment deviates, the deity should impose a...

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First, I think it pays to study up on boom towns. At least scratch the surface of the sociology, history, and economics of them. Then discard the boring stuff and hook into what you think will play dramatically at your table. Look for the friction. Wikipedia tells us: One obvious, if mundane...

...which made awesome improvised pyrotechnics, as I'm sure you learned from the infantry. :p I didn't have any pron, so we had to make do with food and tobacco. I traded a lot of Red Man chew for Gauloises. FRUIT COBBLER! We added the crackers, too, all mashed up. I imagine. They...

Yeah, but they weren't your rations, were they? :p Seriously, the French combat rats were Teh Bawmb. I remember trading for those in Somalia. To further prove my point, they hated their rations and loved our MREs. Lunatics. 'Course they were Legionnaires. That might account for a lot...

That seems to be true of every soldier throughout the multiverse. :D Bob

It's also worth noting that a quick glance through the magic items list shows that, almost universally, activating a magic item's properties for anything, costs an action, bonus action, or reaction, though some items omit those requirements. It seems reasonable to rule that if you have to use an...

Not really. "Iron rations" as a name dates from just before the Great War, at least in English. But "rations" as the D&D 5e PHB describes - "dry foods suitable for extended travel, including jerky, dried fruit, hardtack, and nuts" - go back quite a long way, at least to the Romans, and arguably...

Yes there is. I gave you a page reference above. That's always been my approach. :) I try to think about the effect it'll have on the game, and whether or not I could just reskin another item, mechanically. But yeah, that's the way. Hence the DMG rules on magic item creation by PCs being...

[dons historian hat] No army was supplied solely by foraging, to my knowledge. Even as far back as Xenophon, armies had logistical tails. Richard Lionheart kept his Crusaders near the coast so they could be provisioned by ships in the Mediterranean. Rations were supplemented to a greater or...

Yes, there very much are rules covering magic item creation, laid out in the DMG, pp 128-9. It must be noted those rules are optional. It's up to you whether or not you allow it at your table. It hasn't come up in my campaigns yet. However, I can say without hesitation that I won't allow...

That's the way I've played it. Last time I played a PC with a Knight background, it was testing the UA Cavalier. He needed retainers. It worked just fine. I do not like the idea of having a "pet," however, unless it is treated in play exactly like the Ranger's animal companion (i.e., forego...

That's fair. I did move the goalposts. I like to think I did so after I realized/remembered that you really don't have to pay anything at all to have a full-fledged D&D experience. But you're right that there are a number of different hobbies and games which can be realized on the cheap, if not...

You're absolutely right. You did. I misrepresented you. What I should have said is that what you pointed out is true but irrelevant to my point. ;) Cheers, Bob

Speaking of not knowing what they're talking about: I said they don't have to be expensive, that D&D 5e is essentially free to play. I also said that every other hobby I can think of is more expensive to start. Then I proved it. Yer durn tootin' it is. There I think you have a point. I...

You guys are both missing the point. Nobody needs to spend a single, shiny (or dull) coppery cent to play D&D. Not. One. Cent. Sure, you can buy all that stuff for 5e. But you don't have to. I was running D&D Next for the playtest, then with with the free PDFs from Wizards, long before I...

You misunderstand me. I mean get the funding to release your work in exactly the same way. ;) Cheers, Bob