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The campaign I am working on is city-states of refugees from sunken mythic lands in a cold war over control of the last chunk of land left from the ruined continent. I focused on a small piece of territory with diverse, barely related cultures, and non-standard races like Aarakocra, Centaurs...

I had forgotten about Mahasarpa, it is a fun setting, takes full advantage of the 3E rules, and it really should be part of the Forgotten Realms.

I played 2E and no one batted an eye at an Athasian Half-Giant being Large. If you were a DM you just made it work. This is a FANTASY game, there has to be room for fantastic characters. I think "balance" is overrated, there is always a bigger fish and characters are not going to always be...

Has anyone stuck Rokugan in Kara-tur? Are there any good setting based on India or smaller countries like Vietnam or Laos?

I am thinking if the effect is not visible, the component hand waving and chanting just looks like mumbo-jumbo to a layperson who knows nothing about magic. Also, think about a spell cast while concealed or simply far away.

What spells do you like if you want to make magic go unnoticed? How sneaky and subtle can you get? Can you build a world where all of the magic is largely unseen, so that people are not sure it is real, without making it too weak? What types of magic are best for this approach? Some useful...

Any sufficiently advanced form of magic becomes technology.

Do you know any spells that are useful in forensics or investigation? Has someone made spells that detect blood types or identify toxins or perform other types of detection or identification useful to investigations?

That is what it looks like. I do not like this approach at all, it rubs me wrong. I want to see the gears turn so I know how things work.

So, if you could swap bodies with other people, who would you want to possess? Would you just switch places with people to travel? Can you forcibly steal someone's body? Hmm, so many possibilities...

This is where "streamlining" becomes "dumbing down"...

I looked through the SRD online and my copy of the 5E PH, I could not even find an exact definition of "tiny" or any other size category. That is not streamlining, that is just sloppy.

A real simple example of how a lack of complexity can be annoying. I was in a discussion on Facebook about a way to use ball bearings to add damage to a spell attack in a 5E D&D game. Someone had the allegedly bright idea of animating the ball bearings and said since they would do 1d4 + 4 hp of...

So what do you develop a new, magical set of physical laws for and what do you just assume is the same as the real world? How do prioritize?

Hmm... Any 3.5E D&D rabbit monsters? I like the idea of rabbits waylaying travelers in the woods, ganging up on a merchants to beat him with clubs and steal his wares before hopping away and hiding in the forest.

What did it do? Do you have stats for it?

Yes, Athasians would think of pillage first because hard metals like iron are so hard to come by on Athas. But it could set up all kinds of mysteries and make players wonder about the history of the planet, which except of the genocidal wars is largely a blank sheet. If you want to say that the...

Athas is an interesting place. Look through all of the art in the original boxed set and the different supplements, you will see figures that look like they are from the 17th or 18th Centuries. The previous ages, the Blue and Green Ages, are almost totally forgotten, society has broken down so...

The Muslims do not have any gay people because they lynch anyone they find who is gay.

In my Last Lands setting the city of Aldea is ruled by the Sidhe, with other feys living under their rule. Every building in the city is actually a transdimensional space like a permanent Magnificent Mansion spell, built into a stone or tree, with just footpaths in the woods and circles of...