One of the best ideas I have ever heard (I think it was on NPC Cast), is using the Savage World Interlude system for your D&D game.
Here are the two modules I wrote; they are pay what you want.
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One of the best ideas I have ever heard (I think it was on NPC Cast), is using the Savage World Interlude system for your D&D game.
I took six orcs and bolted them together.
Making combats fast, bloody, and fun.
I compare non-AC attacks between 4e and 5e
When you commit to an epic failure, you are tossing out the "just miss" or the random table and you are building it with the player.
One of the ways I get buy-in and flesh out the world is to encourage players to journal as their characters after every adventure.
If you want to draw your characters from a pool of average people, use 3d6 for your ability scores.
Mike Mearls released his house rules he used with the basic set in 1981. They have a shocking resemblance to the rules in 5th Edition.