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The less bandwidth required for all involved, the better. The lower the grade of tech required to use it, the better. Not everyone has fibre-optic connections and high-end tech, nor should they be expected to shell out for such just to play an RPG.

They can all be made simple, though, by a player whose thought-box for melee tactics doesn't extend beyond "hit it till it falls down".

Semantics, perhaps, but in my eyes there's a fairly big difference between retreat, where you're still parrying etc. while moving backwards hoping to get away from the melee, and flee, where you just turn tail and run. IMO only the latter should have a chance of provoking free attacks from your...

I don't, and the unlimited casting piece is the benefit to counteract all the rather obvious drawbacks this comes with. Further, were it a 5e environment I'd also relax or even eliminate concentration mechanics for this class other than for maintaining complex illusions. What it means is that...

In my system, on first thought I'd probably do it something like: --- what would normally be your daily slots per level become the number of daily random spells per level, thus if your slots would normally be 4 1st, 2 2nd and 1 3rd you'd instead draw four random 1st-level spells, two random...

Now that's a true Wild Mage. Love it! I might have to find a way to swipe this and incorporate it into my game somehow.

Meh, it's all D&D; much like all tissues are kleenex even if the box they came in says something different on it.

Counterpoint: please do! There's loads of design space for lingering or permanent injuries, also something has to explain at the rules-and-mechanics level how the bartender got that permanent limp during his adventuring career. Once you add that explanation in any form beyond DM handwave then...

You'd have to roll extremely poorly to lose them all. Pulling Talons from a Deck, though - yeah, can't help you with that. :) Different strokes, I guess; I prefer the more easy come easy go style. It's a fairly easy dial for a DM to tweak to achieve either preference, though, so probably not...

Easily reflected by the creature taking damage when "weapon breaks" would otherwise be the case. If the game had specific-location damage rules then that damage would go to the paw or mouth etc. as appropriate; but those rules don't exist and so generic damage is all we're left with.

Or just have it that if you're carrying all those magical backups they too are at risk every time you fail a save vs AoE damage. IME that tends to be something of an equalizer over time, if somewhat random. Also, part of the reason for having more than one magic weapon - assuming you can find...

I'm using a homebrew initiative system, individual rather than side, and leaving melee only gives your direct foes a free attack at you and even that's not guaranteed*. Most of the lost spells are due to either enemy missile fire, an enemy spellcaster or similar, or friendly fire due to a...

The obvious next line in that conversation: DM: OK, Bob, skip your turn. Cindy, you're up.

You say this like it's a bad thing. It isn't. :)

Sadly, the challenging-to-the-player style of game is something many modern players (i.e. anyone who came in since about 2010) have likely never been exposed to. True. We need four. One for each classic genre of class - a dirt-simple warrior, a dirt-simple rogue, a dirt-simple cleric type...

The trick is to hit that balance where replenishment is likely but not guaranteed, such that using (or breaking) an item carries some risk that it won't easily be replaced and yet the possibility or even probability of replacement still exists to the point where using the resource instead of...

Every warrior might. Heroism has nothing to do with it.

Weapons can occasionally break in my game - confirmed fumbles are a thing, after all - and yet IME that never stops players from having their characters use the best they have at all times.

On average (though admittedly I've never tracked the numbers closely) I'd say there's on average about one PC-side spell interrupted per combat in my game, including all caster types. Which is significant, in that having a spell interrupted can trigger a wild magic surge... :)

While I agree with this in principle, complexity then rears its ugly head. Weapon-vs-armour and similar add a lot of complexity for not all that much return; having weapons break now and then (though perhaps a bit less often than the OP might imply) seems far simpler in the long run and would...