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1. There are no rules for PCs using oversized or undersized weapons, outside of the Enlarge/Reduce spell and similar abilities that grow / shrink gear with the PC. For the Enlarge/Reduce spell, it adds or subtracts 1d4 damage from each hit. For Rune Knight, it adds a 1d6 damage die 1/turn to a...

Oh my god, you have never ever run an IT project of any size. "We could build it ourselves" -- are you a professional software development firm with a recent, proven and repeated history of developing projects of similar scope and size all the way to completion (done done, not done) with...

You need a certain size and quality of diamond. The demand for such diamonds for resurrection purposes means that their market price is generally 1000 gp. If a new source of such diamonds where to be found, more people would get resurrected, and if the supply dried up, fewer people would get...

80% of all trades are done by institutions, not individual investors making trades. And 50% of stock is owned by under 1% of the population in the USA. This isn't democracy. In the stock market, dollars vote, not people. The vast majority of trades are done by professional traders, and the...

And this is a transfer of wealth from stock holders to the options vester. If a company is worth 1 million dollars and has 100,000 shares outstanding, those shares are worth 10$, and you give someone 10,000 options at 1$ and they exercise them, the company gets 10,000$ and now has 110,000...

Stock Options are transfers of wealth from the stock holders to the CEO at the instructions of the company. You can definitely choose to transfer wealth from the stock holders to the employees instead of to the CEO in a way that has the same impact on Stock Holders that giving the CEO options...

Yes, I'm aware of standard tippyverse mechanics and assumptions. Here is a long post on doing so using D&D 3.5e mechanics: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?222007-The-Definitive-Guide-to-the-Tippyverse-By-Emperor-Tippy

Sure. Then either play a gonzo world with ridiculous results, or don't play D&D. Not even E6 makes a sensible world. I've seen attempts to take PC rules and apply it to a fantasy world. It is just gonzo. I mean, you can just lie about it I guess. "NPCs and PCs use the same rules" and just...

Yes, otherwise getting to L20 is implausible. It does require a narrative excuse, and different adventures as the game progresses. But it does not require auto-leveling NPCs - the problems they face should change qualitatively. Note that PC classes sometimes come with built in cheata. I...

First you don't have to use XP. Second, if you do level up ever 5 or so sessions, and use gritty rests with about 1 month per level, then the game stretches over about 2 years of both real life and in-world time. You can tell different stories over those 2 years. L1-4 is Local Heroic. 4...

The power level of NPCs in your world determine the power level of PCs in the fiction. If the typical professional soldier is a "Guard" (CR 1/8), the world feels different than if he typical professional soldier is the "Veteran" or "Knight" (CR 2), or even Champion (CR 9). Similarly, if every...

It must be perfect if nobody complained.

No, in your model foes are defeated based on your whims. The deadliness of the foes auto-scales with PC numbers. A goblin doesn't die or live based on a PC's individual choices, but on DM's whims. Monster threat doesn't scale with the number of goblins, goblin numbers are pure set-dressing...

... and a PC's abilities become disconnected from the fictional reality the DM portrays. I mean, improv is a fun game. But part of the fun of D&D is that the players have mechanical and narrative control, not just the DM.

Use a HP pool for all minions of a type. The HP per minion becomes a death threshold. HP is encouraged to be 5, 10, 20, or some other easy number to do math with. Damage to any minion damages the pool. If it is over the death threshold, it instead just kills a minion. If it is under the...

I mean, why track resources in combat. When you hit, do a save: on failure, target dies. No HP. All damage is an attempt at killing. Defender rolls HD, treating odd numbers as 0, then adds Con bonus. Attacker rolls damage, with even die rolls exploding. If damage roll exceeds HP roll...

So it is boring. That is all. When sustained healing surpassing incoming damage, a lot of drama is removed from combat. It doesn't have to be all. We get this neat situation where if damage is below sustained healing, the damage is effectively zero - it just reduces the damage the healers do...

Sure, like I said, you as a DM can make 0 HP have next to no consequences. Which makes yo-yo healing optimal. This is your choice, as a DM, to not use the already existing in black and white mechanics in the game to make 0 HP a really, really bad idea for PCs to hit. It remains amusing that a...

One suggestion was doubling healing via Temp HP. That is enough that a party of clerics would be able to stop almost all incoming damage against a level appropriate encounter until they ran out of spell slots. The ratio between "doesn't help against damage" and "overwhelms damage" is very...

The problem is that a game where healing is good universally ends up with either rocket-tag, or non-threatening combat. Rocket tag is when the only way to kill a PC is to take them out before healing can land. You can see this in a pile of games. Non-threatening combat is when damage does...