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Great stuff! A modern take you may find of interest is in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, particularly the comic Cry Fox. I'm not going to spoil it for you!

Paging Miracle Max! Or not, in this case.

Revivify is the standout for me.

Trap the Soul and Soul Bind do pretty good jobs of preventing enemies coming back. Then drop the soul gem into a Sphere of Annihilation. Or Polymorph the beastie into a petunia and drop that into the Sphere.

Yes but you mentioned that your PCs had major magic items.

You're absolutely right. If you want to do away with it in your game that's great. Look at the world of Xoth, for instance, or Empire of the Petal Throne. But having evil works for a lot of people, so why deny them their fun?

Don't have a session zero. Create some characters for them then have them join the game. Get them going straight off, but let them know that these are temporary characters that they can change if they don't like them.

Was 'Goddess of the Pale Bone' a lift from Empire of the Petal Throne?

I really don't like the way D&D does deities. Historically, priests worshipped pantheons, not individual deities. Fortunately it's easy to retrofit that to D&D. A priest might serve the Olympian pantheon and if her particular interest were the sea she might especially pray to Poseidon and be...

Just make them able to speak. Handwave it. No stat modifiers, either - I don't like them. Perhaps the Observant or Squat Nimbleness feat (sans stat bump).

Yes. If this thread sparks such another thread that would be great, but yes, it's thread drift too far. Because it's different but not too different. It's a comfortable step.

Nice and simple. I like it.

That would be the dragonborn.

I vaguely remember something very similar for the original Runequest. IIRC you kept a record of every time you used a stat and every so many successes gave you a roll to try to increase it. And to increase the stat you had to roll higher - with some modifiers.

I was hoping someone would find an underground race more suitable than trogs but yes, tortles do seem to fit.

If you had a reptilian world, what would the analogues be? Lizardman = human, obviously. Dragonborn = elf or aasimar? Saurial = elf or human? Grippli = gnome or halfling? Kobold = halfling or goblin? Troglodytes = orc. Grung = goblin. Yuan ti = drow? What else? What do you think?

I do like giving A the Mythic trait, particularly because you can opt to not use it without the players knowing if they've had bad dice rolls or are otherwise faring poorly.

In the (Fantasy) Hero System there is a Limitation called 'Noisy' which means that anyone within range knows a spell was cast. Or you could create a Limitation: Summons nasty beastie 8- or Summons Very Nasty Beastie 5- The take-away though is that it's important to let players know beforehand...

I like Advantage on Initiative. Permanent Uncanny Dodge fits too. -4 STR for starters. Tiny weapons too - small weapons would be two-handed.

I sit corrected.