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I am imagining things like small conflicts at a local level that don't amount in much XP, so that you have, say, 4 sessions before The Call To Adventure trumpets, just at the moment they are gaining level 2. I was a big fan of the Midkemia books when I was younger and those often did a really...

I mean to each their own, but the thing is it NEVER gets scary. it does not slow burn toward anything horrifying. At least IMO. Not like Color Out Of Space, which I think is legitimately disturbing, or Herbert West, which (while being blatantly, disgustingly racist) is actual horror.

I don't know a lot about Ravenloft beyond what is in the 5E setting book, since we never really played it back in the day, but I do like the idea of inscrutable forces ruling domains, with their whim and traumas shaping the very world the PCs are forced to live in.

I think if I were to start at level 1 for a new campaign, I would really stretch that level out -- use it to build the Starter Town and the relationships the characters have there, to emphasize the "normal life" of these characters BEFORE they become adventurers.

Have you ever tried to actually read At The Mountains Of Madness? It is a SLOG. Anyway, Lovecraft created a lot of interesting ideas, and others have made those ideas into good things sometimes, but his greatest contribution in vibes. We don't need yet another statblock for Cthulhu in D&D. We...

A force of nature? Foil? Obstacle? He is no more character than Moby Dick.

The Shadowdark monster mutation tables are a great place to start, regardless of the game system.

Does Cthulhu count as a character? I am not so sure.

A god house system is versatile and can be molded to fit different IPs and genres. I think 2d20 has proven itself to be that kind of house system, with games of pretty wide varieties of crunch vs simplicity, etc.

We made our own for our setting, which is I think part of the intent behind them. I think that is a rosy view of how MCing is generally used. Most of the time, folks seem to seek out broken combos and power gaming.

I feel the opposite. prestige classes made sense, and often had a place in the world. Dipping for class features via multiclassing is the problem. Just make a Gish class.

I generally like Ennis, but The Boys is definitely one where the adaptation is superior to the inspirational media.

There is an easy solution to that: eliminate it.

Looks great. I am actually kind of interested in seeing if whatever state the world is left in after the finale will make for a good RPG setting. (NO SPOILERS: I have not read the comics past the first couple trades.)

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Because Cthulhu is also boring, in addition to being the product of one of the most vile people ever to grace our hobby's inspirational texts? But mostly because it is boring. At least people have the decency to re-invent elves every time they appear. Cthulhu is just the same big dumb monster...

Right. I don't mean "Why is there a first level?" I mean "Why is first level training wheels?" 5E is the only edition to ever do that. Obviously character got more powerful and more complex as they leveled in previous editions, but no edition besides 5E has said "Character generation isn't done...