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Unless you want to design the setting such that those elements are diegetic, of course.

At its core, you have to have a group that finds making someone play a 9 Con fighter funny, and that any player who got that character would laugh and enjoy it. I have tables that definitely lean that way, and others that don’t. You have to know your audience.

The goal would be whatever sounds more fun to you as a player.

Thought puzzle. Assume you're making characters at 1st level, 3d6 6 times, rearrange to taste. Before you roll stats, would you rather: A) Instead get to roll 5d6 drop 2 for each stat. B) Roll normally, but also receive a rare or very rare magic item, rolled from a 1d100 table with no...

Too great a frequency of stridency hertz everyone.

I think this is a classic 3e-ism that a lot of players haven't fully done a reset of in their narratives. Definitely not uncommon if you played a lot of 3e; to this day I have several DMs that still call for Listen checks and Knowledge(arcana) checks.

For sure. I’ve been leaning into LitRPG and progression fantasy tropes in my D&D games over the last 5 years or so. My overarching D&D multiverse has thousands of classes, most of which can be acquired through a combination of classes levels, feats, and special narrative achievements, which...

Because the players know better than to make the game silly. If they can't do that, then play a game where the DM can force compliance because they're the final authority. And for PbtA games, it's the DM and the players.

I don't use the MM much, and for humanoids I usually do a quick stat up of monsters on the fly. For a 4 person 7th level party, I'd probably do 3 of these guys (blending some barb, rogue, and fighter abilities) and a ranged specialist, borrowing some rogue and monk abilities. Gladiator 7 HD...

When I run Eberron (and most other cosmopolitan D&D settings), I assume that most individuals descend from multiple races. The racial/ancestry mechanics simply represent a combination of common phenotypes and cultural inheritances that crop up. Your bog-standard Khorvairan "human" is going to...

I feel like it depends on the character. Like, for a project based on comics, or books, than the character came first, and you're just looking for an actor to help display the attributes already known about that character, and possibly add your own distinct twist and flavor to the portrayal...

This is basically one of the many ways the 5e designers indicate they don’t want the game to be based around resource husbandry, but understand they have to keep it because tradition.

The book is only 112 pages. They don’t have the room to shift anything. :) And for me personally, the real Eberron (as much as such a concept matters) is what’s on Keith’s blog, not what WotC publishes.

You can't spell "Ph.D." without "HP".

Always remember the 5 D's of D&D: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge!