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Then don't have a dragon as a pet! Dragons are known for being among the most powerful creatures around. Yeah, that's how things go wrong. The purpose of the rules is to mechanically represent the lore, and once they stop doing that they serve no purpose. But it would at least be roughly...

No I would want to use that as that's what dragons are. As you cannot include a proper dragon into a class' power budget, you shouldn't do "dragon as pet" class. And ultimately I think that "pet classes" are not a good design idea, as it then effectively limits having an useful pet to those...

Dwarves are one of the classic fantasy species that I do not "get." I have never found them particularly appealing (not that I really dislike them either) and there is significant chance that if I make a version of dwarves that is appealing to me, I accidentally eradicate what dwarf fans liked...

As in my setting Artra dragons are more dinosaur like, I combined the lizardfolk and dragonborn.

I haven't checked the DH since the early playtest. How does it work?

In my current campaign the PCs have met only one proper royal. He was the Crown-Prince of Marut, the son of the Priest-King. He was leading an invading army, and the characters killed him and stole the Sun Spear, a royal relic. This has an impact to the Marutian succession, but it is unclear...

I got into Tolkien and RPGs about the same time. I read LotR first, when I was maybe ten or so, and got MERP shortly after (not super good first RPG for kids!) Before that I had already played Hero Quest boardgame, which has some RPG elements. I love Tolkien and he was a big influence for my...

Nah, that seems far more realistic than most things in FR. Business interest triumphing over ethics. Like it basically is very clever (probably accidental) social commentary.

This is the key. Just frame the characters directly in midst of an interesting situation. It might be a bit railroady, but I think perfectly justified in these circumstances. Get to the action from the get go, cutting out all the waffling.

I think that was the best part.

Though player elves rarely are that old. Super long lived species are weird in D&D though. You might have live couple of centuries, and still be level one, then gain a bunch of levels in a very short period of time. What have you been doing with you life until that point?

I do not super much care which system they use. I would by a small margin prefer D&d, as I don't care for Daggerheart nor I am very familiar with it, but the appeal of the show is not about the system anyway, so it doesn't matter that much. Not having Mercer to GM is a big change and will have...

Certainly.

I am not talking about effectiveness of the class. I am talking about representation of a dragon. Dragons are among the most fearsome monster in D&D. What the PDK had was utterly pathetic as a dragon. And yes, I obviously understand that having a subclass give you control of a fully powered...

It is super feeble for a dragon.

Well, people who want to have a knight with a feeble dragon pet can just use the UA version.

And I think part of play in such game is for player to "engineer" situations where such things can happen. And I think this get pretty solidly into author stance.

I see. How it is then determined whether the runes are something neither desired? Is it a separate roll and based on what? Also, how would it work in Burning Wheel? Regardless, the dissonance between the reality of the rules and reality of the fiction remains. Most unambiguously it is present...

Right. But the thing is, in a game where conjectures have habit of becoming true, there is a pretty strong incentive to not make conjectures like this, but instead make ones that are beneficial, possible even weirdly specifically and conveniently so. And these are incentives the character does...

But, they are an expert, just a pessimistic one! So they say "This is an ancient dungeon, so it it likely that these runes are some sort of a curse. I have a look to be sure." And like @pemerton has explained, them being expert means that their conjectures have higher chance of being true, thus...