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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8606411" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Great points!1. Earth-like (gravity, food and water needed, speed of creatures, etc.) with magic/fantasy added at a low or rare level -- which is then a world of my own devising. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In D&D, I track things like encumbrance, food, water, travel times, fairly strictly. Spending money in a tavern for food and lodging isn't hand-waved away.When I say low or rare level of magic I mean, as examples:A) Spellcasting is rare. In D&D terms, less than 1% would ever make tier 2 or higher.B) Most magic items are rare, but tend to be more powerful. You won't find a +1 weapon, but a dragonslaying sword sure-- if you can find it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />C) Expendable items are not as rare. Potions are not common, but a wealthy merchant or tradesman might have enough gold to buy one from an apothecary, etc. A crystal or gemstone might be used to "store" magic as a source of power, enabling a caster to cast more spells, etc.D) Fantastic creatures are also rare, but not unknown. Inhabitants know what a dragon, werewolf, displacer beast, etc. are but might go their entire lives without ever seeing such a creature--except perhaps in a carnival show or something?Deep, but not too deep? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Fudging and on-the-fly rulings to have a reasonable facsimile is fine (for the most part). Examples of things in D&D that don't model real-world things well are the aforementioned use of longbows (and crossbows! a real "heavy crossbow" would only be fired about once every 3-4 rounds in D&D, not once per round!), the idea that most flying creatures dashing would barely be able to remain aloft.Lack of rules/systems to allow PCs to sprint or jump anything close to real-life. This isn't even including the "stretch" to heroic fantasy that I would be happy to have in the game.I'll give you an example of movement, in 5E D&D terms, that I've been considering:1) Base speed of medium humanoids (in general) should be 25, not 30, given the 6-second round. This allows humans to walk at 2.84 mph, instead of 3.41 (speed 30) mph. It makes the dash a jog at about 5.7 mph (a speed accepted widely as a jog).2) Adding a "run" at x3 speed and a "sprint" around x5 or 6 provides rules for PCs to actually move. Adding considerations around duration, terrain, etc. would be easy enough without making it too complex really.3) Actually having a simple rule for using Athletics with movement such as jumping, climbing, etc.And speaking of climbing, even if in difficult terrain, D&D says you can climb 10 feet per round. Yeah, I don't think so...As far as combat is concerned, again in 5E terms, I am not as hit locations, etc. unless the game has a more realistic system. But I know a lot of the things I would like if I continued to mod 5E would be better suited to a video game, where the game can track everything instead of the player doing it.So, deep enough I suppose but not so deep that the round-to-round bookkeeping becomes too labourious.Hopefully that helps.</blockquote>

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