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That’s a complication, I would much prefer to keep her than get a recast Sulu.

Don’t have them. 5e Background is a gameplay mechanic for PCs. NPCs have whatever skills and abilities their role requires. We can assume they have some personal history, which is irrelevant.

High magic is the default. No need to mention it.

NPCs are walk on characters in someone else’s story. They are the inn keeper, or the blacksmith, or a farmer. They are lucky to get a name, and their “background” is that their parent did the same job. They only have the skills required to do their job, and they certainly don’t have any feats.

I’ve never given a background to a 5e commoner or classless NPC either.

No backgrounds in 1st edition.

Older settings never worked that way. PC races, classes etc where added to the game in Dragon Magazine, Unearthed Arcana etc, and they became part of the setting.

No, because most of that cast are dead.

The wheels don’t come off, but my little city car is not very stable at 80+ mph. But that would involve breaking the law, so it shouldn’t be doing that anyway.

But not very useful in actual play! A useful map needs to be clear. And the muddy-ness makes it not very appealing as eye candy either.

Exandria is characteristic of the culture and attitudes at the time of writing, not the rules. I wouldn’t have any difficulty running a 1st edition game in Exandria.

I think you make an important point here. The trend these days is to create settings that are system-neutral and rules are setting-neutral. So a “5e” setting would be completely system-neutral, making no reference to any rules.

??? It has flying ships as standard.

And your opinion is? I believe forum rules expect you to start a conversation on any web links, not just share them, if you are starting a new topic. Could have been posted in the existing thread if you have nothing in particular to say. Anyway, I like the LotR dialled up to 11 look of the art...

Aside from the elements that haven't aged well, Pern isn't actually as romance focused as the modern genre. People called McCaffery "The Barbara Cartland of Sci Fi" as an insult. Sometimes she did romance, but it's rarely the main focus, and I can't think of any time she sets up the...

This is what I would go for, Captain Seven of Nine and a crew of mostly new characters. Or use the cast of SNW post-Pike.

That’s not really modern Romantacy, which is generally more sexually explicit, and would be Laurana having to choose between a moody half elf supporting character or some smoothly charming NPC (there isn’t really anyone in the original chronicles that fits the bill).

Yeah, Gygax often ignored his own rules.

It was the rules. Gary would have disallowed it because he didn’t like non-human PCs. He wasn’t much interested in world building and settings. Greyhawk was just the generic fantasy setting where his game happened. It wasn’t until Gary stepped back from the day to day that settings that differed...

It’s been part of the game since 1st edition. Gygax actually discusses what fraction of the population have class levels. I think the figure he came up with was one in ten thousand. Third edition went so far as to add simpler and weaker classes for NPCs.