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If you aren't having to use Dodge on occasion, your GM is not using good tactics for monsters at all.

Some great stuff here! The Primordial Tarrasque needs a lot more thought though. If swallowed, you have to do 70 damage to have a chance of it regurgitating you - and the save for the Tarrasque is DC 20 Con save - which it has +19 in.... basically you aren't ever getting out. Also, the...

Good lord - the rules as written are terrible. Imagine trying to narrate multiple sneak attacks with a knife wielded by a higher level rogue turning a 130ft GALLEY into flotsam... ... which is possible... ... with these rules. Most ships should be immune to piercing from anything but siege...

That's an argument one can make, but you have to ignore the CR ratings and level-based demographics of a typical D&D world to make it stick. Conan defeats a Demon God responsible for devouring almost the entire inhabitants of the most advanced sorcerous city in the world at one point. He faces...

I did it, very successfully when it first came out in the southern reach of the Gnarley Forest. The characters later were given lordship of the area and developed it into a demesne, taking over Cragmaw Castle and rebuilding it, renaming it Cragfall Castle. They extended a road and founded...

My childhood in rpgs started with D&D but really grew wings with RuneQuest when it was first released. Greg's passing makes me feel old, although, it must be said, he wasn't. The word 'visionary' gets overused in our world of Instagram hyperbole - but Greg invented the first skills based rpg...

Actually if you want the d100 system optimised and don't require the Gloranthan stuff intermixed with it; MYTHRAS is the way to go. I ran two campaigns with it and it's excellent. Design Mechanism produce it; http://thedesignmechanism.com/

Some useful stuff here, but in parts a little too flippant, overly simplified and misleading, usually to the negative. No-one for instance will ever really have to commit to memory a "vast array" of rules or the percentage chance of a candle blowing out - in the one campaign in their lifetime...

The extent of the meaning of the word would be useful to nail down actually. As I understand it, as Howard and Lovecraft actively cooperated and used each other's material collaboratively even to a limited extent, that makes Howards Mythos creations canon.

A quick rule of thumb set of modifications I use is; 1. Increase monster damage dice by one dice-step for all dice involved (e.g. d8's turn into d10's). 2. Increased monster HD (and recalculate resulting HPs) by one dice-step (as above). 3. Increase AC of monsters by 25% of CR (round down)...

The two wrote at the same time and had plenty of correspondence. What Howard wrote was as canon as it gets outside of a Lovecraft penned story - and shouldn't be confused with the greatly lesser significance of other writers of Mythos pastiche. The Mythos was a significant part of Howards work...

Yeah I meant the gas for injecting into your car to Mad Max it. On the what Nyarlothotep did front, Lovecraft agreed to let Howard set his Kull and Conan stories in his Mythos timeline and it is canon that the big N ended the Valusian Age (of Kull) in a vast cataclysm that changed the planet...

He is the second most powerful of the Mythos gods - Azathoth is the only one more potent. He was once responsible for changing the entire face of the earth in a cataclysm that sunk continents and raised mountains. He also doesn't have any problem with sunlight and is in no way a Vampire. This...

I like a good number of Gods, but considering the issues raised here which I have long been aware of - I group them into Pantheons and then make those the focus of Cleric domains or theist powers etc. depending on system. The multiple Pantheon system allows you to have a few macro choices for...

Which is all we have on these forums, alas, as most of us I would expect have jobs to support ourselves and thus not the time WoTC do to rewrite the system. That said, I am mightily tempted to do so anyway, despite a busy job. Some things just glare at me when I play or run 5th Edition...

They do indeed.

And who decides whether changes such as those I proposed wouldn't make it even more successful? I find statements of this type the kind of sterile conjecture that adds nothing to the debate. Your last point does have some fizz to it however, as success on this level may breed complacency, or...

There is not quite enough choice really - which is of course a positive part of the levelling-up experience. Macro feats and 'either/or' stat/feat progression means choice doesn't come up much for non-spellcasters after subclass is chosen, and things are accrued in blocks - almost like a...

OK fair enough - 11 months in it for the Tragic the Spending version - but as an idea for a gameworld for D&D... I should have been clearer however, so my bad.

Actually, both of you are half right. RPGs are an OS and a game, and require considerably more input that the rules set itself, without being playable without game-rules application. Perspective is an unusually strong bias-creator in this particular case.