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I really don't care if my characters suck, mainly because I play mostly OSR stuff. In a 5E game I guess my characters "power level" kind of matters, because it'd be boring to be left behind the people doing actual character builds.

the 5e progression is soooooooooooo fast for my taste. you get to lvl.3 without having done anything interesting for it.

i absolutely love the amulet of the planes

I'm gonna have a go at Joyce's Ulysses. I'm probs also gonna work through some Appendix N stuff.

it'd be really weird for them to cut that out. but then again, this is WOTC

It's cool seeing art like this in a big budget product. Usually companies just "play it safe"

oh wow totally and shamefully missed that bit. ok, i'd say that out of recent books Electric Bastionland takes the cake. generally just anything that has Alec Sorensen art, like the revised Stygian Library.

Wait, the objectively correct answer is actually the World Guide for the original Sword World RPG

Fiend Folio has a load of good illustrations, but also some of the most uninspired stuff ever done.

I once ran a game with the 1gp=1xp rule, and the players still took around a year to hit lvl.4 because they avoided taking treasure and going into dungeons.

i've seen some BrOSR people online, but they didn't seem to adhere to the principles listed in the article linked, save for their gatekeepiness.

the dwarf came back wrong