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For regular run of the mill merchants it's simply too expensive to hire wizards/sorcerers, after all those in need of money can make plenty without leaving their tower which is much safer. Though crafting and selling Wands of Fireball is perhaps one of those money making ways. I haven't really...

To solve the whole Commune/Divination problem you just need something answering on each side of the schism, it doesn't really have to be who the Clerics think is answering though. So you could for example have one side having their spells/prayers being answered by Asmodeus without them...

The new Defensive Duelist is probably a better choice then using Shield spell for S+B characters. It limits your weapon selection, which means no PAM but will give you way more mileage then the Shield spell would. That said MI as the origin feat for Shield can make a lot of sense for some...

I'd like to see them visit the divine assassin theme, there were several prestige classes that covered it but I can't really remember which ones I liked best. In any case it Rogue subclass that gets divine magic/abilities.

At the risk of breaking political/religious posting rules, he doesn't actually exist. In a fantasy world where gods aren't just made up stories we tell each other and actually do exist then why would we think a god of knowledge and writing wouldn't promote literacy?

Ogma is a Celtic deity of writing.

Debateable, and wouldn't be at the same level of belief since even rural farmers will have seen actual magic with their own eyes rather then simply believing in stories, or not knowing how something happened and assuming it's magic. On top of which the magic that people believed was stuff like...

Of course it depends on the campaign world which is precisely why treating real life Earth as prime example is wrong, most campaign worlds are so vastly different then what happened in real life that it's a bad basis. A rural farmer in a fantasy world has a much bigger incentive to give their...

Why? In a world were in theory anybody can learn magic by reading/studying it would make complete sense for literacy rates to be much higher then they were in the real world.

For sure, which is why I brought up things like travel, in a world with sky ships where people can easily travel then major cities aren't going to be as isolated as they were on Earth. Literacy levels is typically assumed to be at more modern levels in a D&D world rather then historical levels...

And if we look at the colonization of the America's we see the opposite the native languages have been almost wiped out completely and even when the empire fell (Britain/Spain) the previous languages didn't re-surge and likely never will and it takes work to keep them alive which is why Quebec...

There is generally more trade, ships tend towards renaissance era then the "medieval" baseline, it's not just PCs.

That answer depends on how humans came into existence? In most fantasy worlds it isn't evolution, so for instance if a large group who all spoke the same language were transported from a different world into this one, then yeah they speak the same language and even as they spread out and grow...

In most D&D game worlds Humans are by far the most populous species and cover pretty much the whole world with only small pockets for other races. So Common as the Human racial language is a pretty standard default assumption. If you want to travel anywhere on the surface world you pretty much...

As mentioned you have to figure out what you want the player experience to be when they get an injury. But here's a quick summary of my houserules for when we want to play with injuries. Injuries have 3 severity levels determined by a d20 roll Superficial (17-20) which is usually a small...

It's worth mentioning that PCs all knowing common + at least one other language is an Adventurer thing and not necessarily a world building thing where everyone everywhere knows common. I don't have the new MM, but in the 14 version lots of creatures don't know Common. Gnolls only know Gnoll...

Which is perfectly fair, but one of the few gameplay mechanics that uses language is spells that require the target to understand you such as Command or Suggestion. But that becomes totally irrelevant when everybody speaks common, and is a sort of indirect power boost for those spells which kind...

Haven't tried it or even really worked out the exact details but I've thought of making HM a delivery system for other Ranger spells. Something along the lines of when you hit a creature you've HMed as a BA you can cast a Ranger spell that normally requires an action centered on that target and...

The way the rules are right now I'm not sure the spells all that problematic simply because getting a SR/LR are pretty easy anyways. So if you want to play a game where resting is harder (Which is a style I do like) then you almost need to start with some sort of quality of resting mechanics...

Honestly it's going to be tough to make anything fight a group of PCs multiple times and survive without contrivance which is more annoying then fun. While still at low levels a pack of regular wolves would make sense as the most immediate allies and can be a fun ambush. Have the wolves focus...