This page details how I use the 5th edition rules. Comments welcome.

Only rules from the core rulebooks and Xanathar's Guide are allowed.

Character creation can be done using any method outlined in the PHB. However, if you choose to roll dice for your characteristics, I expect it to be done in person – primarily so we can laugh when you roll low. (The same rule exists for hit points at levels 2 and above)

• Races: Only races from the Player's Handbook are allowed with the following exceptions:
  • Dragonborn and Tieflings are not allowed.¹⁾
  • Drow (Dark Elves) are not allowed. They exist but are not allowed as PC races since they almost never come to the surface.
• Variant Rules: All variant rules in the Player's Handbook are allowed – with the following comments:
  • Equipment Sizes (PHB, p.144): Using armor of a different size is allowed without modification. However, a day of this will incur one level of Exhaustion (PHB, p.291).
  • (others?)
• Significant Injury Houserule: When a character drops to zero hit points, they acquire one level of Exhaustion (PHB, p.291). Every time they fail a death saving throw, they acquire one more level of Exhaustion.
• Unconscious condition: Ignore the last bullet point: “Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature.” Such an attack may or may not be a critical hit based on the normal rules for critical hits.
• Grid-based combat: Combat is almost always done on a square-grid battlemat with miniatures or other tokens.
• Deities: The preferred deities are from the “Fantasy-Historical Pantheons” (PHB, p.297-299) or the Non-Human Deities (PHB, p.296)
  • Celtic – also worshipped in Spindrift
  • Greek – also worshipped in Lowland
  • Egyptian – also worshipped in Backbone
  • Norse – also worshipped in Rota

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