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Sounds halfway to the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. I think neutral deck searching/depletion is a bad mechanic generally, but if you could put a better game around it, that was headed that direction.

I think you'd get a lot of the way there by more aggressively loading up weapons with perks and dropping specialization bonuses. If Polearm Mastery's effect is a function of wielding a polearm, you're taking out a lot of barriers to start with. You could also get there with a bigger item level...

Moving to an actual piece of bad visual design: it's a little awkward that the rules for concentration ask you to cover them with the spell you're concentrating on, right? You'd want the "what breaks concentration" stuff to be visible over the spell, if you're assuming players don't understand...

It might be interesting to add a shared shop of cards, instead of a random draw, to give players a little more control.

Definitely an interesting idea. I think you'd benefit from setting some limits on table talk, to prevent players from maximizing their returns across the whole party. I can envision a scenario a player with a low hand gets stuck with it indefinitely, as the other players cut them out to minimize...

Right?! I want to know so badly what normal procrastination feels like. Does it feel good, is it like, fun to put off tasks?

Oh, I picked feats, but I have a specific proposal. I'd like to see material that convinced different character resources into a singular purpose. In particular, I'd love to see attunement slots repurposed into something other than activating some magic items. Feats that repurpose attunement...

I've had good results with the non-stimulant options, but that's very variable from person to person. My doctor randomly disappeared (seems to have taken a job with Kaiser without telling her patients), her office was replaced with a walk in clinic and they cut off my prescription and would not...

What do you call those discrete packages of mechanics that players use if not rules? I don't think there's a reasonable carve out here.

While it can and should vary based on the game and genre, I generally like PCs that are more powerful/impactful than the "baseline" person, but not in a unique way. Ideally, "adventurer" is an established class of powerful people that have a known impact on the world.

That feels like a stronger argument for a more detailed character creation system with more variability, not less.

This is all a question of degree right? It's not wild to have a specialized Oracle of the Moon Pool, it's pretty crazy to have a unique ability on a local sergeant of the watch.

Movie rules unconsciousness might be the single most common genre trope ascended to setting norm. Bonking someone on the head to put them out temporarily, without any complication more severe than a headache later is both utterly unrealistic and utterly normative.

It's just regression to an older, better design. The issue was moving the benefits from general rules about being unobserved or the invisible keyword to the spell itself.

If you start pulling on the consistency thread, you'll find proponents willing to do away with just about any PC exceptionalism.

This seems like a pretty standard 4eism to me, and a general extension of the idea that monster and NPC stats exist entirely to govern their interaction with PCs during combat. The game simply doesn't believe it's any concern of the rules precisely how you define the "no longer relevant to...

All the conflict here is because everyone seems to think the answer to that question is obvious. I personally think that's a huge design expense you need to be buying a lot with, the whole minion discussion is predicated on it being pretty cheap.

Yeah, I'm not saying the player's should determine which strategy is best, I'm saying there needs to be multiple strategies a player can discriminate between. And that can be undermined in a few different ways: if the approach does not influence resolution, if there's no advantage to any...

I'm not sure this can matter at the level of an individual action declaration, it's probably easier to zoom out to "get into the locked vault" as an objective. There should be a meaningful difference between "I bribe the guard," "I impersonate the bank manager," "I smash any door in my way" and...

Oh, that was just 3.5 RAW. Here's the spell: And here's the general rules on illumination: Shadowy illumination is less dark than darkness.