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There's nothing preventing a web page from being hosted locally, though I'll admit it's not a common thing these days. But the thing is that a PDF is designed to do one thing, and that is to preserve the formatting on a piece of paper for electronic presentation and usually printing. That makes...

If you're going to make a book for electronic reading, PDF is a bad choice. A webpage/website is much better. A well-made website adapts to the equipment used to read it, and ideally it can offer the reader options regarding font size, light/dark mode, and so on. It also lets you have multiple...

And my point is that if this was a mechanic spread throughout the spells (and potentially non-spells) of 5e, along with specific instructions to provide this information when required, GMs would act otherwise.

I mean, sure. If your GM isn't going to play along with the RAW and RAI (and this is explicitly stated in the 13A rules, see below), the rules aren't going to work as intended. That's hardly something that can be blamed on the rules, though – it's firmly a PEBSAC issue.

Technically, I don't believe 13A has fully open hit points. What is supposed to happen is something like: "Can I cast hold monster on the owlbear?" "Sorry, it has too many hit points remaining." "OK, then I'll cast acid arrow instead." Also, looking at the hp values compared to the thresholds...

The Revised set did increase the area covered by a factor of roughly 8: the paper map was approximately doubled in each direction with the Tablelands in the center, and then another similar-sized map was added to the north ("the Jagged Cliffs region"). The new areas had significantly less...

I think that if you're going to three saves, you should adopt the save stats from 4e: Fortitude uses the best of Strength and Constitution, Reflex the best of Dexterity and Intelligence, and Will the best of Wisdom and Charisma.

Probably, yes. The Troubleshooters seems to be doing fine with its split between Skills and Abilities. I think the thing you need to do is to make advantages (or whatever you call them) a system-wide thing. You can't (well, shouldn't) just have a rule for "eidetic memory". You make a subsystem...

I prefer a mix, where you both have skills for broad areas of gradual competency and something like feats/edges/perks/advantages for binary things. Some skill-based systems try a little too hard to make everything a skill. The example that comes to mind is Martial Arts in Call of Cthulhu, where...

In games that have both skills and some version of advantages/perks/edges, both combat, magic, and "other" often use a mix of the two, though the mix is often different depending on your focus. But that's a matter of degree, not a strict delineation. For example, a fighter-type in Savage Worlds...

Just make sure to bribe them with plenty of bananas.

At one point I had a theory that Dark Sun was the future of the Realms, but that was mostly an idle thought based on a point or two of geography (I think there was a tower on an island in the Silt Sea that was reminiscent of a tower on an island in either the Moonsea or the Sea of Fallen Stars)...

I think "skill-based" in this paragraph is a bit of a misnomer. In many (probably most but I don't have any statistics) games, combat and magic are skills. I think you specifically mean infiltration skills (stealth, lockpicking, climbing, swimming, etc.)

There's also a version for Draw Steel, where the Arixx is a true solo monster that's featured in the Delian Tomb starter adventure.