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I'm not sure that's true. Cultures vary wildly from state to state and even city to city within states. Small towns that are more isolated are even more varied. As for a national culture, there's a lot of disagreement about what that means across the U.S. We are a large and varied nation...

"Hi, my name is Strahd. HR sent me here because I drained one of the servants and left his corpse for the other servants to dispose of."

What difference will that make? If there are 10,000 people who want the game and 3,000 preorder and 6,000 total books are printed, you will have 4,000 people complaining about availability. This doesn't change if all 10,000 pre-order and 6,000 total books are printed. You will still have...

There's not one culture. Some of the town are insular and distrusting of outsiders. Some less so. Some feud with one another have have a fish culture. Others don't. Yep. I didn't say each town had a different human culture. I simply said the towns were not really one culture or government...

Those things already exist somewhere. It's not hard to say that there's a Tabaxi village in High Forest, or a Harengon warren in plains east of the Wood of Sharp Teeth, and a large Triton city in-between Waterdeep and the Moonshae Islands. All a made for 5.5e setting is going to do is what the...

The ten towns don't share the same culture. And the loose confederation they form isn't really "the government." Each town also governs itself.

You don't need a dragonborn community to have deep ties to the area, populations, governments, factions, etc. And all without making anything up. You can have deep ties to Harpers, The Lord's Alliance, Zhentil Keep or wherever and whatever is already written.

Many of them. It's called Demihumans many, few or none. There were a lot of vague populations without specific number. Those would include Dragonborn, Tieflings, Goliaths, Tortles, Loxodon and any others you want. That and the lore is so sparse that you could literally drop a village of...

Dunedain didn't. They roamed and most made their home in the Rivendell when they were staying someplace. The Black Numenoreans also did not. They stayed in human cities in the south, but had no towns or cities of their own. Half-elves were so rare there weren't enough of them to have even a...

And there probably are that many. All spread around that 100 mile radius. A few in Phandelver. A few dozen in Neverwinter. Some in Leilon. Some in Triboar.

It's not called Eleven towns. It's Ten Towns because that's all that are there.

It's called the Forgotten Realms, where every race has sizeable populations somewhere. Even Dragonborn. For Dragonborn it's just not on the Sword Coast.

Bree also had a lot of hobbits. Nah. There are a lot in Bree and I'm pretty sure they see some there. I don't recall any populations further out than that, but there are at least the Shire and Bree that they could be from and were known. But dwarves are known. They travel and have business...

Further, with Greyhawk there are several countries with enough halfling and gnome population to list their populations in multiple thousands. That's as deep a connection as pretty much any other race that isn't human.

He can already have both.

You can have all of that without having a full settlement of your race present thousands of miles from your homeland. Just write it into your background.

(y) Yeah. We didn't like 3e's system of confirmation as it stood, either. So if you rolled a 20 and didn't confirm, you did max damage for the normal hit. That way it was still boosted by the 20. Also, if you did confirm it was base weapon damage + max, instead of rolling base weapon damage...

Which one? This was something the group came up with, but I know that I had Best of the Dragon I & II at one point, so if it was there, it's possible I was subconsciously bringing it up.

I have also shown how there are already setting links for Dragonborn in the Forgotten Realms. And I've further shown how to write links to the setting into a background for Dragonborn who are far from their homeland. But I have to ask.... Why should PHB options be guaranteed links, or even...

What we did was from level 1 to 5 you got a DC 15 dex check to turn the fumble into a miss. From 6-10 it was a DC 10 dex check. From 11-15 it was a DC 5 dex check. From 16-19 it took two consecutive 1's. And at level 20 you could not fumble at all.