HP increases per level! What happens when you level up? You do more damage? You take more damage? But enemy hp rises too. So it's all a wash anyway. Instead of "NUMBER GO UP HURHUR" you could get more varied and interesting abilities. New ways to deal or defend from damage.

I love introducing a little fear into teleporting. Nightcrawler rules from X-Men.

"Can you see your destination?"

"...no..."

"Well, let's hope you didn't splint yourself. Grab that scatter die from the 40k stuff."

I've never actually gone through with it, but it keeps TP from being abused.

I've done this...

"Can you just get a plate and stop eating like a savage?"

"That's one less plate to run through the dishwasher and that one of us has to put away later."

I love the idea of blood mages being the only ones who understand the risks of blood transmitted pathogens, so they practice proper sterilization and have ppe.

"Why are you dressed like that, brother Amos?"

"Um. Ye Olde Hepatitis A? Why are you NOT dressed like this?"

Yes! That drives me crazy! Magic is just a gun that shoots effects or doesn't in D&D.

When I was designing my game, I had a ball coming up with backfire effects for when you cut corners to cast spells faster. Bad Stuff could happen, but only if you knowingly take the risks.

Can't say I've heard of that one. But if a game gives those vibes I'ma probably skip it...

I feel targeted. I have the Alien rpg, Zweihander, Legend of the Five Rings, Delta Green, Dark Heresy, Wrath & Glory, Vampire, Dresden, Mutant Year Zero, couple others. Only played D&D and the game I wrote. Ugh.

I really hope you have some shellshocked locals who can deliver exposition about the forest coming alive and attacking people. And an overly butch person to deliver one liners like "I ain't got time to bleed", "If it bleeds, we can kill it", and "you're terminated fucker!"

So your players are just going to walk into the middle of two factions of killing machines? 🤣

They must be the kings of mosh pits.

It's on an equatorial island, lousy with magic. Innate spellcasters and university mages are common. Shadowy groups work with the universities to monitor the island for portals and deviations from the norm of other monitored parallel realities resulting from incursions by extradimensional monsters.

Hi Vulpes. I seem to see your posts a lot...

I spent 8 years writing a #ttrpg. It's done. It's awesome. And I 3D modeled all the art inside. Well, not all. Some of it is just 2D. Anyway, the world is mostly low / magitek, but I couldn't resist finding a way to include some high tech fringe stuff.