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Caught up with hag nemesis.

I use a screen high enough that players can't really get eye contact with me unless they stand up. And I made a simple mechanism on my custom screen where there's another screen behind it I can raise to also block that when they do. Then I wait until they sit before lowering it again. One time...

I think my players will be happy to find out the place they've entered is the lair of the hags that have been screwing with them. Got one painted just in time. Edit: And I just noticed I forgot her ears.

I used DCs and monsters “saving” against it with modifiers for various circumstances at first but found just rolling 2d6 was better.

I use the BECMI version of morale checks. Each monster has a morale score from 2-12. Roll 2d6 when appropriate. If you beat the monster's morale, it seeks to avoid further combat. I usually roll when the PCs first kill something, when half of them are dead and when only one monster is left...

I don't know about that. I've done plenty of Severe encounters and no PC has died in one of those yet. I had one die in a situation where the party split up and each group ran into a moderate encounter, and one die on the run from an extreme+ encounter. Have had some really hairy moderate...

Spell levels not matching class levels.

Allied lizardfolk vs. enemy lizardfolk

Kingdom Come: Deliverance's world was also pretty much entirely seamless. IIRC you could straight up walk into most houses as well. Most NPCs were pretty lackluster in terms of dialogue, though. Great game overall. I remember sneaking into a war camp at night and stealing the helmet from a...

I like average damage for regular foes and having players roll to defend instead of monsters rolling to attack. It's faster, reduces what I have to worry about and players like rolling more dice. I also like not making players roll to see if they find something when they search an area. If they...

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

If the PC says "I want to break the castle wall in half with my bare hands" then no, unless it's a toy castle. They might break it using a catapult, though.

I'm guessing Baldur's Gate will also be a pure illusion, but in a more literal way. Many buildings will likely look real from the outside, but you can't enter them. Or NPCs you can't talk to or just stand in the same spot all day. Purely visual distractions without substance, but certainly...

But it wasn't just the city. It was the entire game world, which includes many cities. You could also enter all bulidings and they had detailed interiors with interactive parts and objects you could move around.

And since it's a 2d game with top-down view, the game only had to show you a small area at a time. In a 3d game with a free camera, you can look across the city. Of course, the game also had to run on ancient hardware.

I liked being able to explore the entire main city seamlessly in 1992 while playing Ultima VII. And also the entirety of the game world.

Shadows Over Mystara might be a good source of inspiration.

Instead of adding higher numbers, you could also allow auto-success against certain DCs. Basic = Roll as normal. Expert = Allow the character to "take 10" on any check with the skill. Master = Allow the character to "take 12" on any check with the skill. Or something like that.

"Look Mr. Frodo! It's a Dungeons & Dragons ride!"

Temples in adventures seem to always have a bunch of clerics. Forgotten Realms at least. There’s a bishop in the adventure I’m currently running. He’s the highest level cleric in town. Looking at the next adventure I’ll be running, the leader of a local temple is a high priest who is a 12th...