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My favorite displacer beast image remains the 3e version.

That may have been true in your game, but in published adventures, as well as every campaign I ran or played in, monsters with class levels were very common. One of the joys of 3e was in creating a half-fey gelatinous rust monster 4th level barbarian/2nd level rogue/5th level ninja of the...

I'm actually starting to think that, rather than giving xp per combat, I might want to give xp for combat in a session. Basically, figure out some numbers for little combat in a session (less than 1/3), a moderate amount of combat in a session, and most of the session is combat (more than 2/3)...

I enjoyed it, but I also really liked Upgrade. I find Blake Crouch to be a fun read every time. But I do prefer a longer, meatier book in general; I like a little more complexity and convolution than Crouch's typical length allows for.

If you're not supposed to talk to monsters, why do they have languages? If you can talk to it, it can tell you what it wants. If it can tell you what it wants, you can try to help it gain that- in other words, it can give you a "quest". (Or a rumor.) If I ever had a player rage quit over...

So what is my roleplaying xp system? I am going to return to a system I used in 3e: the "four point" roleplaying system. At the end of each session, each pc can earn xp for each of four categories: class, race, alignment, and personal. It's easy to earn these xps; you just have to tell me how...

I have been re-thinking xp some more. First of all, if I give flat xp based on encounter difficulty, one of the main reasons for escalating numbers of xp required to advance- higher xp values for higher level foes- goes away. So does the number of xp required per level really need to climb...

28 with fire. And multiply that by three, since it's attacking three times.

With that caveat, I'd say during the Ancient Age- basically, I'd set a supers game in ancient Sumeria, during the time of Gilgamesh.

Specifically, WWII.

There were monster design guidelines though. They weren't robust; they were sort of hidden, even. But they were in the rules for figuring out the xp value of a monster. Sure, they didn't tell you how many Hit Dice to give a monster; but they told you what those HD were worth in xp, and...

Do you have any evidence for the "vibes" assertion, at least as far as it trumping math goes? Because I don't think that's accurate at all. I'd posit that the math is simple enough to be put into a chart similar to the one in the 2014 DMG. I could be wrong, but I see no reason that a similar...

Then spell those things out. It's not hard. And DMs aren't stupid- and we could absolutely use those rules or guidelines.

Hard disagree. Not everyone uses, or wants to use, DnD Beyond. I, for one, never want to be obligated to use digital tools for my game. That was one of the biggest flaws with 4e.

May you get a ton of use out of it!

Thank you!

My pleasure!

Wow, it's a much older version than the one I use now. I'll attach the updated one here. EDIT: This version is more like 177 pages.