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I think a lot of things in HP are only half-baked but that’s just me.

So the other element is player expectations. Me— I personally might because I tend to expect those things, having played many TTRPGs. My daughter, who has no such experiential baggage, might not.

Back to HP, I’m not an expert on the lore but, generally, all the wands are interchangeable, right? Other than the three master wands or whatever they’re called. So in that case, a wand, like a mundane tool, might not need stats/mechanics.

Ultimately, it’ll be on you to set up the context and sell the players on the concept to overcome any expectations.

Nope. I think it’s due to heavy traffic on the instance’s server. I’ve had it happen to me a few times.

You can play D&D and similar games solo but they usually require some help and extra tools to do so. Might I point you towards the !solorpg@lemm.ee community? They might be able to answer questions and help you get started if you want to give it a try.

It’s really all about context. If we’re all playing Harry Potter-esque mages, we’re not worried about swords and shields, generally. If I’m playing as Aragorn or Boromir, my expectations will be very different.

I would definitely be interested!

Love Wingspan!

I would opt for a homebrew setting on an earth-like world. The reason is that, having the world be earth-like means there won’t be any misunderstandings about the basic rules of the physical world. Using your own setting means that you won’t have to fight up hill against any assumptions people might have with regards to cultures in that world.

Just FYI but I also created an OSR group on lemm.ee. No harm in having more than one though!

Just to follow up: I messed around with your original prompt in Stable Diffusion and, with some tweaking, and a few minutes of grinding through iterations, I got a couple of decent (I think) images out of it.

I use AI images all the time for mocking up elements for my home game campaign and for generating quick thumbnails for YT videos. I think that while there are A LOT of limitations, gotchas, and quirks about using them, I have gotten very reasonable results in much shorter order than I could achieve using any other tools available to me. If you stick with it, learn tips and tricks, and invest time, you can get some really good results but they may not be precisely what you asked for. I find that being flexible in my demands helps very much.