Adopted Optional & Variant Rules

  • Action Options
  • Alternatives to Epic Boons
  • Creating and Modifying Game Elements
  • Crafting a Magic Item
  • Customizing Ability Scores
  • Encumbrance
  • Equipment Sizes
  • Fear and Horror
  • Feats
  • Hitting Cover
  • Inspiration
  • Level Advancement without XP
  • Massive Damage
  • Mixing Potions
  • Multiclassing
  • Planar Effects
  • Playing on a Grid and Using Miniatures (not including flanking, diagonals, & facing)
  • Renown
  • Scroll Mishaps
  • Skills with Different Abilities
  • UA: Mass Combat
  • Variant Backgrounds
  • Variant Human Traits

Ignored Optional & Variant Rules

  • Alignment
  • Cleaving Through Creatures
  • Firearms, Explosives and Alien Technology
  • Healer’s Kit Dependency
  • Healing Surges
  • Hero Points
  • Honour
  • Initiative Variants
  • Injuries
  • Loyalty
  • Milestone Experience
  • Morale
  • More Difficult Magic Item Identification
  • Only Players Award Inspiration
  • Piety
  • Plot Points
  • Proficiency Check Variants
  • Proficiency Die
  • Rest Variants
  • Sanity
  • Slow Natural Healing
  • Spell Points
  • Training to Gain Levels
  • Wands that don’t recharge