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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7533301" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>Most hacks of B/X can be done in a reasonably small page count while something like 3.X or 4E require 1000 odd pages (cf 160 odd pages for Basic Fantasy).</p><p></p><p> My B/X hack would add feats and fort/ref/def from 3.x and rewrite the feats to smooth out the difference between the crap ones and the good ones and probably add expert (non combat) ones to the ix that certain classes get more of so bonus expert feats are not competing with the combat ones a generic bonus feat would. Ability scores are capped and some OSR things would come back like old school SR/MR but it would be a flat number on a d20 not % based- like the old D&D minis game. For example MR 90% becomes 18 and you have to roll a 19 or 20 to beat it and its not modified by caster level (maybe a feat spell penetration that gives +2 to punch through).</p><p></p><p> And the fort/ref/will saves woudl scale differently with capped ability scores and lower DCs so you would not have the 5-11+ difference between good and bad saves like 3.x and 5E.</p><p></p><p> I owuld be looking at 5E, B/X and SWSE for a D&D hack or to clone/improve/homebrew whatever edition you like even if its just capping ability scores and smaller numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7533301, member: 6716779"] Most hacks of B/X can be done in a reasonably small page count while something like 3.X or 4E require 1000 odd pages (cf 160 odd pages for Basic Fantasy). My B/X hack would add feats and fort/ref/def from 3.x and rewrite the feats to smooth out the difference between the crap ones and the good ones and probably add expert (non combat) ones to the ix that certain classes get more of so bonus expert feats are not competing with the combat ones a generic bonus feat would. Ability scores are capped and some OSR things would come back like old school SR/MR but it would be a flat number on a d20 not % based- like the old D&D minis game. For example MR 90% becomes 18 and you have to roll a 19 or 20 to beat it and its not modified by caster level (maybe a feat spell penetration that gives +2 to punch through). And the fort/ref/will saves woudl scale differently with capped ability scores and lower DCs so you would not have the 5-11+ difference between good and bad saves like 3.x and 5E. I owuld be looking at 5E, B/X and SWSE for a D&D hack or to clone/improve/homebrew whatever edition you like even if its just capping ability scores and smaller numbers. [/QUOTE]
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