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It's a very good show. I can't recommend the sequel series (Legend of Korra), but the original is genuinely great stuff. The first season does have some goofy episodes, but in fairness, it is a show targeted at like 10-14 year old children.

Is this what was meant by "player's guides"? Because I was expecting things like Player's Guide to Faerun (a 3.5e text) or Eberron Player's Guide (4e text), neither of which is particularly good for the kind of purpose you describe here. They're more like...the whole text? Like they describe...

Well-said. I would add a small extra though: Tell your prospective players, "Please don't start building a character until we meet up to do character creation together. I understand that folks are often drawn to character concepts very early, but it will be better for me, and I believe better...

The difference is, heroes can be in the wrong, some of the time, though they end up more right than wrong, or become so overall over time. Likewise, true unrepentant villains can be morally correct some of the time, about some things, but overall or ultimately they will end up more morally wrong...

There is a big, big difference between "there are heroes and villains" (which I am in favor of!) and "full-on black and white morality". (Emphasis added.) The former can have heroes who kinda suck as people, but still ultimately choose the right thing. It can have villains who are genuinely...

Perhaps. I find it more useful to not spread the term too thinly. Agreed. The bigger problem is that in the race to the darkest-and-edgiest, it's almost always black-and-black morality, every side is villainous, one just gets to be the designated hero. Full-on black-and-white morality is...

Er... You do realize that that was the way things were done...back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, right? That's not "political correctness". That's literally conservative censorship rules. The Hayes Code and the Comics Code Authority were enforcing stuff like this. Rod Serling had to dodge the...

Not really sure why it doesn't compare. And sure, there are multiple approaches, one of which is to slash levels or the like. But there is no inherent virtue to only having 6 levels, or 10 levels, or what-have-you, rather than 20 (or 30 or whatever). I do, personally, think it would be...

Except that it was still high level play. That's part of the problem here. Folks reject certain things as being "not high level play" when they demonstrably are. As pemerton said, the difference between low and high level is communicated through increasing severity, heightened stakes (it's...

You did not ask me, but--at least if I were the one writing it--I would expect that at the level you lose access to Animate Dead, you would have the option to pick up Greater Animate Dead if you want it. And at the level you'd lose Greater Animate Dead, you could pick up Mass Reanimate (raising...

If they do, I can't really see it as being more than a very limited sense. Otherwise, every setting gazetteer or the equivalent would count, which rather dilutes the meaning. The request certainly seems to be wanting specific, direct advice for how to handle the lead-up to starting play...

More importantly the "political correctness" thing is often used to guise over some...I mean pretty not-great positions? Sapient beings getting depicted as Pure Evil is kind of a gross thought, because that's literally how several cultures have (sometimes literally) demonized and vilified...

What are the advantages and disadvantages to making four completely different mechanics for action resolution?

I'm sure you would rather that. I'm even more sure that it isn't gonna happen. Folks are already souring on what 5e's designers sold them on this front. "No no, if we just do it even more, then people will LOVE it!" is not and has never been a successful policy argument. Also, you...

Though there is the everpresent chicken-and-the-egg issue there. Or, I guess, more farmer-and-field. A field doesn't grow if the farmer doesn't tend it, regardless of whether it is fertile. The farmer doesn't tend a field he doesn't think will grow in the first place. So...is it that the fields...

One possibility, if one wishes to pursue this, could be a "fumble confirmation" roll (just as 3e had a "critical confirmation" roll), but instead of being keyed off the target's AC, it's keyed off of the attacker's level in combat-focused classes: your Fumble Threshold is 20-level. So a level 1...

I mean, part of why folks said that is because, all through the playtest, that was in fact the official line. That it had to be 6-8 encounters of some kind, without all of them being combat. Anyone crunching the numbers for 5.0 can find quite simple demonstrations that it is, in fact, meant to...

In doing those things, you precipitate having to rewrite: How attacks work, how much damage they do, and how much HP creatures have Functionally all spells that negatively affect enemies Any actions dependent on the above things, e.g. spell-like abilities, or special attack stuff like Bull...

I suppose I should have said "not in the same game at the same time"?

That is, I'm sorry to say, not at all true, at least not universally the way you present. Any player I would want in my games is going to commit a fair amount more time than that. Because they're going to think about their character outside of actual session time. They're going to care about the...