I ran a great campaign set in Mistledale that ran up and down the Dalelands, plus above and below (using an inverted version of Monte Cooks Banewarrens and City of the Spider Queen).
Along those lines, I'll just drop this here for fun:
Sacred cows make the best eating.
Sure, it probably isn't Dungeons & Dragons anymore, but Warrens & Wyrms can get by just fine with modifiers and level consistency. And maybe a wound-condition track and armor as damage reduction, and ...
Now that I see this I'm surprised it hasn't happened before -- particularly with modern board game and miniatures games using character "dashboards" fairly regularly. Add ability, spell, and item cards and you have a more tactile and easy to organize game.
None of your tinkers, smurfs, or Keebler elves around here, sir. This is a serious place.
Players who want to play short characters will be assigned Kender.
LOL. I'm now on Wind & Truth and am thinking Sanderson is falling into the Robert Jordan trap of not having an editor willing to tell him to cut stuff.
WotC shouldn't give it to someone else. Don't use 5E; GW deserves a bespoke system.
But if you must ... go all in on gonzo & mutations. Plant people -- great! Human-animal or human-plat hybrids -- great! Start with mutations like feats, add then (or enhance them) over time. Character building...
That's good to hear; I'm still waiting for a shipping notification from the game store I pre-ordered from. Hopefully that will occur soon.
Will echo the Moria book -- fantastic -- and I just picked up Realms of the Three Rings which had some great source material.
Mmmm, ranch.
Had the most amazing fries the other day at a diner called "They Say" in downtown Detroit, just off the river. They had the perfect blend of crispy crunchy outer to thick moist interior, and were seasoned to perfection.
Funny that GPT mixes D&D systems. That wolf stat block is AD&D (though they misspell "% liar" :p ) but the skill check is from a later edition. In my encounter, the oak stat block is 5.0, the skill checks could be 3.0 to 5.0.; the saves are 5.0.
So let's paste it back into Forest Oracle for a...