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I am thinking of a system that works along those lines. A die roll determines how much damage each PC takes, but the characters can cancel out damage by burning resources to represent their efforts. In play, the DM narrates how tough the fight is and reveals how much damage each character could...

Post new PHB - it'll likely need to adjust a bit to account for the new classes and how they're designed.

Yes! That approach makes it easier to zero in on what each character has at stake.

Yes! I'm waiting until the 2024 updated PHB, though, since the core of the system connects to each character class.

A real quick summary: Wild shape is, IME, what makes many people want to play a druid. In practice, it creates a huge pool of extra hit points that makes druids weirdly durable. Wild shape damage also lags at high levels. Because the druid is a full caster, we don't have a big power budget for...

Will do!

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I'm planning on doing that! Working on figuring out a good streaming set up. A few projects are ahead of it in the queue right now, but once those are cleared I'd love to start doing design streams again.

Winning each round allows the characters to remain hidden. I need to work on the format, but at the start of the round you make a group Stealth check to cover how quiet you are being. The idea is to move away from a single check determining how the entire encounter turns out.

I think this is an area where player expectation and mathematical reality collide. I've run games - specifically Shadowdark - using DC 8 as the baseline. My experience was that anything less than a 10 is seen as some sort of failure. There's a weird pattern where people, even those who aren't...

This is definitely a factor. I think tradition - 3e used five point increments - plus the ease with which people handle multiples of 5 makes this the most popular way to do it. And by popular I mean - playtesters just liked multiples of 5 better than everything else.

When in doubt, give the players a little more information than you think they need.

I'm focused on the 5e SRD for now, as that's the system I am most familiar with. In terms of D&D Beyond, if that ever happened it would be pretty rad. But that's getting way ahead of myself!

No discord yet. Honestly, this entire thing was kind of an accident. I was setting up the Patreon for when I eventually did something in this space. I had no idea it would get any attention, but here we are! So, with Discord I want to take some time to make sure I'm doing it right. It'll be...

Very similar! I liked Arcane Unearthed so much that I took a job working on it full-time way back in the day!

Hmm, sounds like a great topic for my skill series!

To be clear, that is the case. I spent almost four years on Magic and have no view into D&D releases beyond what's been shown to the public.

I'd like to keep the pieces I build compatible with the 5e SRD. If you look at the Challenge Point system I'm working on as a CR replacement, it's designed to function with any creature and give you a baseline point value based on CR. The idea is to build modular systems that complement and...

The series on skills will be free, the Psion is at the paid tier.

Yes! This is the kind of thing that might unroll from this approach. A costing mechanism, as I learned while working on Magic, is an immensely powerful tool.