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I find these days for our current campaign, I only purchase content which assists the current storyline - whether it be a guide, storyline expansion, a future storyline (I know what I'm going to be running) or material that works with a player character or their background. I'm just too invested...

I run a high-level 5e game (10th-15th) which sees disparity in levels for a time, until the stragglers (for various reasons, usually newer characters) catchup. It has not been an issue for our campaign at our levels and the players do not seem to mind it.

Cool, will check it out as I skimmed through the 1st ACT of that AP. I've mashed a few APs together, one of these being OotA, so when my table eventually decided to do some reconnaissance work for the Council (ToD) in the underdark, they were more than high-enough level to start off with a...

Who is the victim and why?

If no one has already mentioned it, my mother's fried chips are pretty great

Well, the way I see those leaders is that they rule by brute strength; wisdom in that they may sense the decline of their species or the need to adapt for them to survive but it is not an easy task to change them culturally, they make small increments of change within the tribe which reflects...

I believe the second - each caste express it differently. So one of the stories we are running con-currently with other is SKT (if you are familiar with it). The PCs have rescued King Hekaton and they're off to the desert to acquire the sceptre from the dragon Iymrith to rescue his daughter who...

Currently Giants. They do not think like humans, they have the Ordning and a society which dictates much of their decision making, they are incredibly large, live long and aren't a species with great numbers. So you have to dig deep as to how these creatures would behave psychologically in a way...

I did not know - I have no experience with the game. Is that really a theme in a superhero roleplaying game? "Lost in the dungeon" Like they get captured and have to figure out how to escape etc?

Right. So gamist would be to have the rules "set-up" so the players could wish the runes emulated a certain spell say they would be able to work out the DC themselves? i.e. no negotiation necessary with the GM and that would possibly be function of the runes on a successful skill check.

One more time, as @pemerton has said, this is not for map-and-key i.e. FICTION HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED And my idea is of such runes easily being used by Trad GMs being in areas where the runes FICTIONALLY CHANGE such as in areas where desires are plagued on - planes/domains of chaos, emotions...

I may be mistaken but that is likely the case when gamism takes centre stage. It is something I'm leaning more towards to break my own expectations and biases.

That's the way I see it with the risk being the higher the sought after power from the runes, the greater the DC but also the greater the chance one gets hit with a failure/complication etc. For the more Trad GM who aren't fans of these runes because of the fictional manipulation it provides...

You and me both!

Let say I were to use this in my game So, Has anything been established in play about who passed through here/who built this (dungeon/complex)? Is there any secret backstory (that's my Trad background, in case I want to link this later to something) about who passed through here/who built this...

I think we have to be practical here, the player may also not determine the runes give them mad-xyz. The xyz would have to be measured against the fiction and the game rules in the same way the priest would be willing to do a measured abc and not the examples you sighted.

Great example above by the way. The only counter to this (and I'm not even satisfied with my counter tbh so I'm not really expecting a reply) is that the NPC has known functions (their spells and knowledge) which you can call on. Whereas the runes' functions are determined. Personally I do not...

Sorry I have not been following this thread religiously, what is MHRP? I would expect the answer to my question about the level of creativity permitted on player determination of the runes would similarly have a "DC" that would be decided upon by the GM. At least that is how I would rule it...

I like this example. With a trapdoor, you already know its function. Your roll is to utilise its function. With the runes, you do not know their function. Your roll is to determine (importantly not to discover) their function. Now if you are able to determine the function of the runes (via...

Happy to be within the 30% :) I do not think I will run another long campaign like this. Currently at around the 9-10 year mark as we are having a blast!