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I use the array, then allow players to roll against each score, in order. Better score wins. I've never made someone reroll scores because they "rolled too well" in front of me. That's... I do not have a high opinion of that concept.

I feel the passage in the OP describes how I was taught to play "D&D"-- edition doesn't matter-- in 1993. But "challenge" doesn't have to mean "puzzle" or "trick monster"; likewise, player abilities don't have to be Win Buttons. Shake up your encounters, don't assume most encounters are just...

I'm sure learning to play D&D would help them with that. . . Tongue very much in cheek here; I am very much "with D&D", even that weird stuff that Piratecat plays.

I'm already on the announcement list for when the VRC campaign goes live. Thanks for the tip about Paranormal Power.

My preference is that optional/variant rules should be spread through the core books-- supplements are 100% optional-- in sidebars near the standard rules they modify, and then all of the optional rules should either be collated in an Appendix, or at least given a separate index table before or...

I have always been possessed of a firm conviction that psionics were an integral part of D&D, that they belonged in every D&D setting that didn't specifically rule the out-- looking at you, Krynn-- but the rules just weren't in the right place to make that feasible. I tried running "everyone's...

Drizzt and Elminster on the cover means it's a Realms book, Raistlin and Caramon on the cover means it's a 'Lance book. There aren't a lot of "generic D&D" iconic figures to choose from.

You're thinking about the one with Christian Slater?

Not my original idea, but imagine a PG-13 movie where Deadpool spent the whole runtime worrying about when to use "the one F-Bomb" that a PG-13 movie is typically allowed... and he keeps cutting Wolverine off from saying it, uses loud props to censor Wolverine using it... and then deep in Act...

Off the top of my head: d4 Hit Points Lean into Schools: declare some spells universal, a la 2e Wizards pick one specialty school, two major schools, and three minor schools Wizards can only cast their highest spell level in their specialty school, up to their next highest level in...

Fighter and Sorcerer 100%, Paladin and Wizard at 70-75%. Reckon I can see myself in the EK/Wizard range, if there were some kind of "hedge witch" arcane school, healing and curses and whatnot. In PF terms, maybe a Mindblade|Archeologist.

Well, I didn't find a game for Lifeline, but I am now playing an alternate universe version of Nathan Summers-- the Hobgoblin; he's replacing the more standard version of the character that exists in the game already, but is on hiatus. He's from an alternate version of the MC2 combined with...

My game is basically (Talented/Unchained) 3.PF1, but I incorporate a lot of 4e/5e mechanics, like partial AEDU, a hybrid between Hit Dice and Healing Surges, Advantage/Disadvantage, 5e's half/prof/expertise math. I also bring back a lot of AD&D mechanics. Class/race restrictions (not level...

Max at 1st. Starting at 2nd, reroll all your HD and either take the new total or the old total + 1.

Can't think of many classes I'd straight-up add to the roster-- basically just an INT-based, non-divine magical healer-- but I'd expand the roster by splitting existing classes and by recombining some. Kinda like I'm already doing for my Spelljammer game. Fighter would break down into whole...

For the sake of this thought experiment, I'm going to assume that the job is "an offer I can't refuse", since I wouldn't take it otherwise; I would rather see the job done well on purpose than hope I might stumble blindly into getting it right myself. First announce a self-deprecating mea culpa...

Obligatory Snark Answer: The Larian Studios logo. Barely Better Serious Answer: Same rules, same game engine, different art styles and different campaign settings-- give the full BG3 treatment to all of the D&D games between the Gold Box and BG3 itself. Pirates of Realmspace 2, Shattered Lands...

If we're going to play by the OP's rules and import a single (thematically unified) team with their supporting cast and rogues? The Green Lantern Corps as cosmic rivals to the Nova Corps and the Kree and Shi'ar Empires, and literal canon immigrants trying to rebuild their ancient legacy in a...

I just joined a freeform X-Men game, OCs only-- my first pitch was Lifeline, the son of Kaine and Madelyne Pryor-- younger half-brother to Cable-- but the co-GMs hadn't done anything with Madelyne Pryor or the Inferno storyline, and they didn't want to introduce all of that baggage for a single...

No, nobody joins the MCU. Disney buys DC Comics and forms a new movie studio to make DCEU movies. They quietly rebuild the DCEU and the Justice League franchise, with an eye on multiversal stories and "stunt casting" MCU alums as cameos and even extras in DCEU movies... while the MCU plods along...