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A design principle is something like, "Any intelligible action or choice can be resolved in the game with appropriate results." If you write three or four sentences in response to everything in my list Tonguez's, you have enough to run one of those forum-based and chat-based RPGs we used to...

The Sword of Heironeous. There's a little bit of boob plate going on here but otherwise perfect. My last 5e character was a fighter, for whom I used this mini.

My experience is mostly with previous editions, but WFRPG is really great for that "grim company of adventurers meeting by the hearth late in the night, conspiring at some aim or quest." It's very much Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, it's the hobbits meeting Strider at the inn, it's the Three...

Defining the setting. Giving the GM or someone the ability to referee. Deciding who gets to decide how to narrate the results of actions, and how they are allowed to do it. Some structure for defining the playable characters, and what are allowed PC types. An agreement among the players as to...

I suspect level 20 was chosen because it was divisible by both 4 and 5, common breakpoints for various progressions. Just as in BECMI, I think 36 was chosen because it's divisible by 4 and 3 (eg. fighters in that version gained roughly +2 to hit every three levels). OD&D didn't really consider...

You didn't have a lot of direct damage dealing ability until high level, but then again, it wasn't common to rely on magic-users to regularly expend fireballs, either. You had a few basic jobs. First, you could do creative things with illusions. An illusion of a spectre, for instance, would be...

I left because I was a BECMI player and DM, and I got tired of high mortality, completely rolled and arbitrary ability scores, alignment languages, and rigid class roles. I envied AD&D for having playable gnomes and some cool subsystems like weapon specialization and kits, but overall I thought...

Yes, except when I'm in a hurry, I don't.

Some of the monsters are sort of already built this way, while others do die changes, and a few don't seem to follow any pattern. One quick idea you can use that if you want to boost damage, you can take away a monster's Strength bonus to attack with that attack, making it powerful but slow and...

Reasons this makes sense, in no particular order: Original D&D setting, so the 50th anniversary nostalgia factor is there Existing fanbase who have been out in the wilderness ever since Living Greyhawk went away The much more toned-down variations of ancestries map well to the toned-down...

Iuz. Greyhawk has the dark overlord thing going on.

Armor Class is your meat threshold. If you take damage, you lose meat, but not in any specific, literal amount of meat.

The 5e monk from 3rd level on is doable. But at 1st level, you're a person with a stick. Literally all the abilities you gain just mitigate some of the disadvantages of being someone in a robe with a stick. At 2nd level, you have just enough ki to get overconfident. Once you get to 3rd level...

Okay. Maybe a weird choice for a character that often attacks bare-handed, but cool. Well, they're weak. I don't know that they would be better off as a weak striker than anything else. There was also the Slayer Fighter, which blended the striker with the defender. Hence, even in 4e, class...

Is a monk a striker? Do you think it's cool 4e had a defender fighter and a striker fighter? Should 5e have both striker and defender options for monk?

I guess. I don't think marking where a monk is on the martial-magic-psi by striker-defender-controller grid is immediately going to sprout insights into how to build a low-gear character in a high-gear game.

There's no warlord equivalent in 5e because classes in 5e aren't defined primarily by their role. A warlord is just a warrior in the support/healer role. The only way you can remotely imitate one is to look at support/healing abilities in 5e and graft them onto something similar to a fighter or...

A little tricky, while wielding a greataxe, but doable, if you have a foe within throwing distance.

I've come to find I really don't enjoy fighters with a lot of finite resources.