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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8176688" data-attributes="member: 23751">That seems like good advice.  Personally, I reskin on some occasions and create from scratch on others, but I've been doing this for a very long time, so I've made most of my large mistaked decades ago.Good advice.This I don't agree with.  Advantage/Disadvantage gives a greater bonus/penalty on most occasions than a bonus or penalty does usually does.  Sometimes it's better to give Advantage/Disadvantage and other times it's better to give a bonus/penalty.  The rules should talk about the cough advantages and disadvantages of both methods.Wise advice.And again something I don't agree with.  You should be careful if/when you hand out core abilities, but they can and do sometimes make sense to give out.  Especially when there isn't a player at the table with the particular class/subclass core ability in question.This doesn't exist.  Even in 3e, the rigidiest of D&D editions, rules often failed to cover a situation due to a hole in the rule, were vague, or just didn't make sense to apply to a particular situation.  Then there were also times where an addition of a rule, subtraction of a rule or blanket alteration of a rule would improve the game for the group.Rule 0 exists to make the game better. It may not have started out that way, but that's the way it has been since 1e.</blockquote>