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Interesting development - Chaosium have made their BRP Basic Roleplaying Rules free for use under the new open ORC license. Its a new cleaned up edition of BRP: https://www.chaosium.com/blogbasic-roleplaying-universal-game-engine7-changes-in-the-new-edition/

Phew! So srd is under the Creative Commons license now. That was a close one 😅

I had a quick browse over on the Xoth forums. Just to say I found Vengers idea of introducing an escalating critical chance a neat optional idea for emulating the drama of S&S. https://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2021/08/crimson-escalation.html?m=1 For a bit more work the idea of the crit...

My broad brush stroke answer to the OP’s question is the dwindling sense of Jeopardy when you go up in levels in 5e. Focusing down a bit I’d like to see: • Some kind of consequence if you fall to zero hit-points. Perhaps a reworked but much simplified optional wound system. It could be...

The classic Robert E Howard story, The Tower of the Elephant is discussed on the latest podcast from The Friends of Jackson Elias. There’s a few more Robert E Howard podcasts from them - Worth checking out. https://blasphemoustomes.com/2021/10/26/the-tower-of-the-elephant/ On another note nice...

Really good discussion on the Sword & Sorcery genre in the Good Friends Of Jackson Elias podcast. It’s in two parts. Recommended: https://blasphemoustomes.com/2021/08/02/sword-and-sorcery-part-1/ Also really good to see the new development in the Xoth players guide. Playing into the...

What are the long term plans for Xoth 5e? Will we eventually see printed hardbacks in the shops?

And POD too! I shall be grabbing some of those. It’s on my list 👍

Are the six modules 5e ready, or is there a bit of conversion work to do? Not familiar with Pathfinder

That’s very cool.

Iirc AD&D did this with extra attacks on 1hd and 2hd opponents if you were a fighter. But the 4e approach is probably the most straightforward way to make a real “mook”

Really like these changes. They all have an appropriate impact on the game. On balance I think it’s a good call to leave out the tweak to instant death. Whilst I agreed with its change of emphasis, and how it flattens the heroic survivability a little, it’s not necessarily (I’m on the fence...

Agreed. Not talking about run of the mill. Just making a point about possibility of failure.

Yes good way to describe it. Not disputing that. But the point is there’s a chance for you to fail in the game, unlike Conan who will always succeed in the end. You also have to ask yourself are we playing Conan where nothing can affect him because of canon? It’s the equivalent of playing...

Your premise isn’t wholly correct. You’re overstating the impact of these rules on the game. As Xoth very clearly pointed out in his last post ,the stages you would need to go through for character death (not just zero hit points) still makes death unlikely. I’ve mentioned before, any genre...

Well that’s subjective. Remember there are other opinions out there which are just as valid as yours :) No one is forcing you to use optional rules. But thanks very much Xoth for providing them, I appreciate them. This obviously is just going rumble on. Think I’ve said everything i need to...

Interesting thread. Some great advice here. It seems to me 5e walks a line with some crunchy class combat actions, and the more open improvisational game which the simpler older editions were designed around. That said I like the balance 5e has struck here. The advice on rulings not rules is...

Yeah agreed. it’s not all a bed of roses. I certainly enjoy the lower levels when there is a greater risk of failure. The risk is more exciting. Regardless, 5e death saves have kept all my characters alive. Which some old school die hards deplore, but I think it’s a pretty good mechanic. You can...

Yeah for me the pc’s are still powerful and are likely to win the day. It’s hard to die in 5e. And if that standard 5e approach is what your after it’s not being dispensed of in Xoths game . Inspiration is a very useful tool in 5e. Could easily see it being used to thwart death heroically in...

Yeah cool. Don’t use it, it’s optional.