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in a similar situation to two other posters earlier in the thread (twosix and someone else i believe it was) i actually see this in the opposite way, it's much more justifiable IMO that someone somewhere in some small corner of the world managed to cultivate some new source or application of...

i've considered something similar before while thinking about species, dwarves got light geokinesis (BA mold earth and earth tremor), halflings maybe you can lean into their history of being good throwers? (i know it's not hugely thematic but it's something) give them increased range/accuracy...

sorry for picking at this, but i just need to point out that there's no h in tiefling.

IMO pretty much the only real difference between them is how widely known they are, and given i know pretty much absolutely nothing about Glantri or Forgotten Realms or the rest of them then it's as much of a blind plunge for me to go for official settings as it would be for their original...

if all things are equal, why can't we also be urging players to ignore their dislikes?

all those things can happen and as long as the GM is still the one making the final calls of if something gets added or not in that last bullet point then they still have absolute power.

EDIT: i take the question back.

if they were a better writer maybe they would have made a novel about the world, but they weren't so they didn't, but they saved the ideas, they reused them, this doesn't mean they will railroad their players into a plot that they didn't end up writing, if tolkien hadn't ended up writing LOTR...

and some of us believe that those implied servants ought to exist in a more defined state than just being an in-potentia obstacle to be sprung on a player as a result of a failed check yeah, a lockpicking check and a stealth roll, but we wouldn't conflate those two into part of the same action...

bad luck is fine for climbing, bad luck is fine for lockpicking too, however, the existence of a cook is not a consequence of bad luck in the act of lockpicking, it is just a generalized 'bad thing' that you don't want to happen. bad luck in lockpicking would be having your picks break, or the...

following the discussion back a few responses to how it was originally introduced and used it seems to be being used to refer to when the players/characters are oddly ignorant and/or curious towards things that ought to be ordinary and commonplace to them in a setting where they have actually...

okay i admit that was my mistake, i read the part about 'no extra ASI at char gen' and saw you had added them directly to the array but ended up missing the part about no ASI from feats or level up either, in that context where the character's aren't gaining stats it's more understandable why...

it got linked in a thread while stat generation methods were being discussed.

do you actually consider (what is close enough to basically be) the standard array+mods to be restrictive enough to be defined as 'gritty'? if i had to provide what i'd define as a 'gritty array' (again, including mods) it'd probably end up looking something like: 14(+2), 11(+0), 10(+0), 9(-1)...

just because i know i'm never going to use one for a real game i wouldn't mind having a mock run through on here, just for fun. edit: i hadn't looked at that link and thought you were referencing el-remmen's stat draft that gets mentioned in that thread, snarf's still seems interesting but...

because there is a far FAR greater number and range of things that spells cover than just damage+minor effect, the sorcerer would know 22! spells at first level this way, 14 of which are a range of support, utility and other non-damaging effects, there are 8 masteries in total, eight, it looks...

free pick?

sure we can roll for stats, just so long as everyone has to use the same set of resulting stats.

i think this is perhaps nitpicking the accuracy of the replication of the facts, an owl has a flyspeed and a frog has a swimspeed in the game because...owls fly and frogs swim in real life, it might not be a perfect portrayal but it's still representing something true.