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Of course, you and me well know that it’s a +3 Badge of Honor now, but the grognards won’t have it…

I’ve been thinking about this for a couple days and honestly, I can’t think of any genre that cannot be done in RPG. I can think of a couple genres where I don’t really see the interest of making a RPG about it, but imagining somebody who would, I don’t see why it couldn’t be recreated in RPG...

Religions in my games are played fast and loose as faith can be a subjective and delicate subject. Otherwise, I tend to take a polytheistic approach; characters and even clerics are encourage to do what most inhabitants of the world do; pray to the god that has power over the issue at hand...

Still undecided. It looks like the change are significant but made of many small blink-and-you’ll-miss-them changes, which is something I dislike. Let’s see if those changes are worth the hassle….

I think the OP’s post is a bit on the theorical side but even then, there is a certain beauty to the simplicity of using a single book or document as source. And to be fair, the SRD alone is still more comprehensive than many RPGs. I don’t think it’s lazy to consider it « complete enough » for...

When I choose to keep a narrow or restricted number of available options, it’s because I seek more focus, usually about themes. But bloat is a real thing: there is a point when adding more becomes too much. We all reach this point at one point, some earlier than others, and then you need to put...

Since 3e, my take is that Bard magic comes from the same place that sorcerer’s magic comes from (they just have better control over it, and are able to tap in places that doesn’t manifest often in sorcerers). So if Sorcerers are arcane, so are bards. (But for what it’s worth, I also consider...

That's why it's the last Aaracokra...

I would still play in such a campaign, but I'd find that something is missing. While this is not mentioned in the OP, I assume we're talking about D&D here (this thread being in the D&D sub-forum) and in D&D, I expect some mechanical support to race/species. Not so much because I want moar...

Slightly off topic here, but has anyone used Eberron to run a noir-style game? My Eberron experience have been flamboyantly pulpy with over-competent characters succeeding against all odds, which is as opposite to noir as I can conceive. Whereas Blade Runner can be seen as a (neo) noir film, my...

It is? I like legendary resistance as is. Actually, I wish the same mechanics was also used for fighter’s indomitable feature.

Indeed, when I play FR (west of Cormyr) I’ve got to go to great lengths to medievalize it, if only just a little.

Agreed, but Pirates of the Caribbean is far from the medieval milieu discussed in this thread.

Because the perception is that guns change things and change warfare, to the point that we consider it foolish to bring a knife (or a sword) to a gunfight. As firearms got better, armor and melee weapons became more and more obsolete, and as @Reynard said, swords are cool. The fact that...

It's medieval-fantasy, and it's as accurate to the historical middle-ages as steampunk is to Victorian-era England and colonies. It's overly romanticized, it removes 95% of the bad stuff that did happen back then, and it's anachronistic as naughty word; but it does refer to a period that immediately...

I like all of those things but medieval fantasy is still one of my favourite sub-genre, and it is one that is easily invalidated by modern elements. By definition, a middle age is an age between a bygone antiquity and modern times, so too "modern" elements can quickly ruin this elusive and...

Heh, I had never realized that for warforged, contrary to all other races/species, the more complex the class, the younger you tend to be! This suggests that warforged didn’t train for much more than a year before getting to level 1; it’s just that they have been producing fighter warforged for...

My personal take is that warforged could potentially live forever given enough maintenance (which in turn requires knowledge and tools, possibly magical ones that warforged do not necessarily possess), but comes a point where they won’t want to. Some will become « attached » to their scarred...

I don’t need more creatures, but some juvenile/elite versions of some monsters would be appreciated. What I really want is a signature ability that goes beyond hp/AC/saves. Doesn’t need to be much, like orcs/goblins/hobgoblins/bugbears is enough for me. Just do the same for more creatures

Presumably the ranger’s hunter’s mark will have a similar treatment? I didn’t follow the UAs, any indications this will be the case?