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Because in a neutral case, the obvious choice is to make a choice yourself rather than leaving things up to chance. If I gave the choice between picking a class yourself, or rolling 1d12 for it, most people are going to pick the class. But if you incentivize the roll (maybe bonus XP or a...

And considering how bare-bones the initial presentation was, "adapt" can mean something as simple as "use this place name".

Yea, I think "classic" is more a nod to genre than it is about particular rules designs. It's medieval fantasy, with elves and dwarves, and rough-and-ready adventurers plunging recklessly into the unknown. No wacky races (with Dragonbane's mallards being grandfathered in :) ), and no class...

Stat draft! If someone needs to make a new character, I have 3 arrays they can pick from.

I'm not clear what point you're trying to make. It is clear you think I'm doing something wrong, I'm just not sure what that is.

I assume it is, but what do I know?

I think Celebrim has a reasonable, coherent chain of thought. It just happens not to encompass the way that about 99.5% of us play.

One time I tripped and broke my Flanaess in two places.

The player used it to make a simulacrum of a monster they had vanquished, so it was mostly just acting like a permanent summon or henchman. It lasted until it got critted in the final battle (which was at 14th level), so I never got to see what else the player would do with it. I'm aware of...

Ahh, some miscommunication. I never said "act on it". I said "show it off", which is very different. Magitech is like tachyons in Star Trek. It's BS, but at least it's BS that shows we're trying for some coherence rather than the black box of "magic did it".

If you're not ready for it, Animate Objects does an incredible amount of damage for its level. It's counterable, but if you don't have the counter, just be ready for tougher monsters to get wrecked. Wall of Force is pretty much like you said. If you have combined forces in an enclosed area...

Agree with this. The last time I ran a high-level game, I gave them the backstory that they had previously (20 years prior) saved the kingdom from an invasion of elementals, and were hailed as heroes throughout the kingdom. Fat and lazy from their cushy government jobs, the heroes are called...

True, but generally neither are our players any of those things. It just has to be thoughtful enough to withstand casual scrutiny, not any sort of audit.

1) Decide early if you're going to give the PCs magic items, and how you're going to distribute them. If you let the players pick, you're going to see a lot of cloaks of protection and characters with Str 8 taking gauntlets of ogre strength. If that bothers you (it doesn't bother me, but I...

To be serious, I have no idea. I don't generally subscribe to the "dragons the size of a 747" idea, myself. I usually present adult dragons as being around the size of T-rexes, in the 5-8 ton range. The only thing I generally present as being truly kaiju-like are the tarrasque and dragon...

Why, to kill such a thing would require even a regular man to be.....supernatural. :)

Ture, but you can have "character growth" without granting a ton of corresponding "player options". Just give mechanical rewards in play, magic items or new spells or new mechanics that are rewards, not player-chosen options automatically earned by leveling.

I'm not a big user of dragons in my game, but I really like designs of both the green and the blue dragons.