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while true, i feel that if they do make a 5e setting i really feel they need to give it a distinct flavour of it own that's more than just 'classic sword and sorcery fantasy land' again, i fully admit i care very little about lore but of the settings and places i do know anything about, well...

FFX is the game that always first comes to mind for me when referencing the series personally, it being the only major non-handheld entry i've put significant time into, but if we're including artificer and 5.5's guns that entry feels pretty apt with magic and tech both being prominent in that...

i could see a '5e setting' going in a very Final Fantasy direction, that tends towards modernistic high magic multiculturalism settings, with a good splash of magictech or even just straight up tech often thrown in there too, please give us default artificer. even if they're not PHB player...

i don't see why still being in that 'background lifestyle' would thus mean they shouldn't have the mechanical features of said background, if anything it makes more sense to me that they should have them.

okay, but that's not because it doesn't make sense for them not to have them, that's just on you and everyone else who neglects their NPCs lifestyles.

Good thing this is 5th edition then and 1st is entirely irrelevant to the discussion

but the things i mentioned didn't come from neither class nor levels, species and background are things i would fundamentally expect every 0th level character to have(barring perhaps background for very young children), you can't exist and not have a species, how can you live your life and not...

Is it ever actually stated anywhere those things ‘aren’t for the normies’ or is that something you want to assume because most GMs simply don’t remember/care to give their NPCs those things? honestly I think that would be a good concept to play up on in a ‘designed for 5e’ setting, that a...

i could see the interpretation that the mechanics isn't representing so much that the injury is actually taking up any space or capacity, but is instead symbolizing how the wound is weakening you and thus reducing your capability to carry things, if my arm or leg got messed up it makes sense i...

they are a whole class in DnD, you just have to be slightly less pedantic about the name they're being referred to as.

my instinctual answer for this that comes to me is that while golems are useful and very strong they don't have the higher thought capacity required for an independent minion that you don't need to constantly micromanage and that sentience is a package deal, you can't cut and trim away the...

yes other species are biologically different from human, a dwarf is far more hardy than a human, can see in the dark, resists poisons and is sensitive to the tremmors in the earth, but a predisposition to quaffing ale, wielding hammers and desiring gold are not biological traits, nor are...

i would say slot based encumbrance systems would typically benefit some sort of basic two-tier system rule between 'big' and 'small' object/slots with the ability to equate a big slot into X worth of small slots.

because human or dwarf, elf or orc, there's only going to be so much difference between how one kind of species and another lives as a port town or a forest hunter-gatherer village, oh sure, the elf military civilization might favour longbows whereas dwarves hammers and orcs axes, but making a...

i think you could probably do pretty well in covering the broad strokes of things with a decent group of archtypical culture entries and then make like 2~4 specific species-culture entries for each species that highlight the things unique to them and their ways,

Uh, didn’t the desire for culture as it’s own category come about because people didn’t like the idea of all members of a species having all their species cultural knowledge seemingly beamed into their head at birth despite potentially growing up never seeing a single other member of their...

Off the top of my head I think id go with something like: Background: 3 skills. Cleric/Druid/Sorcerer/Warlock/Wizard: 2 skills, 1 expertise in a class skill, no reliable talent. Paladin: 4 skills, 1 expertise in a class skill, no reliable talent. Barbarian/Fighter/Monk: 4 skills, 2 expertise in...

agreed, there should be more skills for martials not less i also think there should be more expertise, jack of all trades and reliable talent handed out to them, i think people are too afraid of letting martials break skill bounded accuracy when like, what's really the worst things they can do...

my definition doesn't say every member has the same characteristics, although granted i can see how you could twist it into that. my intention was more of a large pool of knowledge/values/traditions that there is significant overlap in, so while they might not find common ground in every part...

i think if i had to give an off the top of my head definition of what defines a culture it would probably be something like 'A specific collection of shared knowledge, values and traditions unique to a certain group of peoples'