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Pathfinder would like to have a word. As would nearly every other RPG on the market - Vampire, Traveller, Star Wars, Star Trek, on and on and on.

Heh. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. I like the WotC 5e publishing schedule, so, obviously the flood of Golarian material wouldn't fit in that schedule. But a single AP with a setting supplement that covered a small area (for a given definition of small - like I said, I'm...

Not sure where that is coming from. A PC half-dragon was virtually unheard of due to the Level Adjustments needed. They were very much not a popular choice among 3.5 players. That was why 4e brought in Dragonborn. There had never been a viable "dragon race" in D&D previously. Vecna rebooted...

Heh. That's always a problem - nailing down what "low magic" actually means. :D Honestly, while I'm not a Pathfinder player, I find Paizo's approach to setting evolution to be absolutely the gold standard. Each region gets an adventure path and then a MOUNTAIN of information about that...

At least that's refreshingly honest. :erm: And, frankly, IME, pretty much how most players approach a campaign.

Now, if we're talking about a wish list of what we personally would like to see? Me, a 2024 setting would be small. I don't want a world. I want a continent, at most. From the central point, figure 3 weeks travel on horseback - so, a rough circle 500 miles in radius? Thereabouts. That's...

Just to add. I used FATE as an example, and that was perhaps a poor choice on my point. The point I was trying to make is that there are lots of games out there where your character does start very loosely sketched in and it's during play that details start fleshing out the character. The...

Just to clarify my point. The OP talks about how he finds it jarring that groups do not reflect the campaign setting. My solution to that was to suggest that the main problem is that character generation is often done in isolation, away from the group and therefore, to fix the problem, don't...

Heh. Fair enough. I can't even imagine what a 2024 Low Magic, Low Fantasy setting would look like. This is very much not the system I would use for that setting.

Hey, don't argue with me. I'm just going by the criteria set out in the OP. 🤷 But, even taking your point under consideration, how in the world would you do a low magic, low fantasy, human centric game using the 2024 rules? You'd have to toss out so much of the game that there's nothing left.

Would love to see how you could do a low magic, low fantasy game using 5e D&D. Given the idea that a setting has to use 5e as a base, I'm not sure how you could do anything else but a high magic, high fantasy setting. Might not be epic fantasy - cast of thousands and all that - but it's...

Dude. I'm sorry. I hope your cat feels better. Didn't mean to pick a fight.

By your own words, no it doesn't. I said that coming to the table with a "fully formed character" doesn't work. You point to the Phase Trio which specifically tells you not to have a fully formed character before you start. Thus, no, there's no rejection. Hey, fair enough. You want to come...

Can you point me to an example of this from WotC's adventures? I get what you're saying, but, I'm really struggling to think of a single example here. Or, are you simply saying that D&D leans into the idea that the adventurers are actually good people? I mean, that's been pretty basic to D&D...

One thing that I liked about Primeval Thule was their backgrounds actually had serious tangible benefits that increased as you leveled up. It was a very solid system. Ghosts of Saltmarsh, for the Soldier background, gave you a house (as an option) in Saltmarsh. But, to be fair, no, I...

Well, that's not quite what I was talking about. One way that I've tried to get things going is a really cool (well, to me at least) chargen mini-game using Magic the Gathering Cards. You spread out about ten cards per player (or more, the exact number isn't really important other than LOTS)...

Not @Minigiant, but, I'd take a stab at that. Major population centers should at least have one Dragonborn "community" of some sort. It could be an enclave, it could be a mercenary group, it could be something else. But, something. Anything. Heck, make it an embassy of Tylamanther, if you...

Not quite. What I am stuck on is that there is zero actual lore to draw on. A "spread throughout the Realms" isn't really lore is it? It's pretty thin and requires you, as the DM or player, to create, pretty much whole cloth any dragonborn communities anywhere in the Realms other than...

Again, not talking about what "might" be true. I'm talking about ACTUAL canon. There canonically no dragonborn mercenaries in Baldur's Gate. The are not mentioned. Even Decent into Avernus, where we actually HAVE Flaming Fist Mercenaries outlined, does not have a single Dragonborn. IIRC...

totally agree. Except that none of the specific places, people or events that he lists actually exist in the setting. It's all 100% made up on the spot. Which is fine, that's certainly what everyone does. Again, not arguing that it can't be done. I know it can be done. I do it, you do it...