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I thought you still had to be 9th-level to cast 5th-level spells? And that's a pretty serious hammer to disease-curing; Cure Disease used to be 3rd level (so, only needed a 5th-level caster). That said, has 5e gone at all into the idea of stay-at-home or non-adventuring spells and abilities...

The main limit is that there's only so many 3rd-plus level Clerics of which not all are stay-at-home healing types, and they each only have so many spell slots. They can probably keep up with the usual day-to-day demand - the in-game equivalent of a walk-in clinic, maybe? - but if there's an...

Thing is, the player is equally bound by those same rules. If a player rolls a 1 to hit, she can't ignore that roll and say her character's attack hit anyway. In D&D, I can think of a bunch of rules that are binding on players but not on DMs. I cannot think of a rule that's binding only on...

If I take a brick and a feather upstairs and drop them out the window over and over again, it's almost a dead-shot certainty the brick will hit the ground first every time, with the only exception being if the feather somehow got caught under the brick on release and dragged down with it. The...

Still IMO a valid goal to work toward in one's world/universe building, no? Well, I disagree, but so be it. :) The cynic in me thinks the locks are all designed to be pickable in the same way in order to make life convenient for those who need to, in a non-criminal way, do the picking. And...

Would be, yes. PM me if it's too long to post here.

The inclusion of parasites and diseases was, I think, largely to make rooting around in fetid areas more hazardous and-or force more drain on spell resources. One could argue this is yet another, though minor, "loss condition" present in earlier editions that has since been stripped out. I'm...

Some of this looks strikingly familiar! For our 1e-adjacent system: We have body points, rolled in a narrow range determined by species and with your Con score setting a floor. Dwarves and Half-Orcs roll d6, Humans and Half-Elves d5, Elves, Hobbits and Gnomes d4. Con higher than 7 sets a...

Well, given that my games have always had training requirements to level up, I'm already well on the way to doing just this. :)

I think you both forgot we're still on Earth, and it doesn't come with fantasy extras. :)

I suppose one could say it's the opposite of damage-on-a-miss: no-damage-on-a-hit. On a rolled narrow-miss the narration might go: "BONG! Your war hammer makes the foe's armour ring like a bell, but the armour does its job and your foe takes no damage".

And yet there's a common real-world example that quite strikingly well emulates the in-game class system: that being degree paths through university or college. Your major = your class. Your minor (if you have one) = your second class, i.e. you've multi-classed Your year (freshman, sophomore...

Fair enough. I was referring more to run-of-play procedure during the session, where in both sandbox and narrative the ideal would seem to be that the GM is in react mode most or even all of the time.

It's accurate to mine, to some extent; as part of what you're simulating is a) the character's presence in the setting and b) how the setting affects the character and vice-versa. Not sure I'd go so far as to say it's "necessary", but it sure helps.

Plan B: long-range communication (via telepathy, magic device, or whatever) between characters such that the scout can report back on the fly and get up-to-the-minute instructions and-or questions from the rest of the party. If a party has this ability, I'll run the scouting character at the...

For WotC-era D&D: Gamist - snap to grid; movement in squares or 5-foot steps; area-of-effect rules Gamist - overly-fast hit point recovery through rest; fully-functional at 1 h.p. and dead or dying at 0 * Narrativist? - hit points as (some degree of) plot protection Gamist - cyclic turn-based...

The fourth one might want to use the word "conflict" rather than "combat", to allow for settings or games where social and-or environmental elements provide the challenges rather than foes to be physically fought and defeated. Well, that's kind of exactly what I want: in effect, Earth with...

Which mostly just serves to prove you're more flexible than some. I've known some very gamist players, who will take any situation and play it gamist all the way. All that matters is a) the rules and b) the dice-rolling. Abstraction all the way. I've known some, but fewer, quite...

Sometimes "not thinking deeply" is the way to go, though, because "just do it" gives better results. Many times this holds true in sports: a player will go into a slump and the main reason turns out to be that the player was overthinking what had to be done rather than just letting muscle...

Although in this respect one can argue narrative and sandbox games are the same, as ideally once play gets going in a sandbox game the GM is also fully reactionary. The main difference might be that the sandbox game has more behind the scenes prep going for it, but that's not necessarily always...