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Ddead reacted to Skywalker's post in the thread New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con with
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Starter Sets are usually loss leading products for exactly that reason. This has been the case with The One Ring for 10 years now. The... -
Ddead replied to the thread New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con.It's interesting how the 5E version has a different name and different artwork. Most publishers would just keep the same name (The One...
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Ddead reacted to Skywalker's post in the thread New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con with Like.
They are the same in terms of adventure structure, though the stats for NPCs and rules for combat are the 5e versions.
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Ddead replied to the thread New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con.I was just wondering if the 5E adventures have more combat focus than the TOR version. Or if that's not the case and the 5E adventures...
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Ddead replied to the thread New One Ring and Lord of the Rings Starter Sets Launching at Gen Con.Is the 5E version a straight conversion of The One Ring (just with different artwork)? Or do they dial up the combat in the 5E conversion?
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DLankhmar is excellent. Dying Earth as well. It doesn’t have to be wild gonzo for DCC to work. You could even use The Old World for...
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Ddead replied to the thread D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press.How is the new game going? Are there many people playing it? I must admit I haven't been following it but I might investigate it now...
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Ddead reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
The only point I'll add is that there is a Medical/Healing proficiency in the game; a character (or hireling, or familiar) with 2 to 3...
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Ddead reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
4e is different from BECMI. The author modernized the underlying 'setting' assumptions and redid the classes. Read the comment section...
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Ddead reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
If I recall correctly, it was a Rules Cyclopedia clone, but seems to be gone from Drive-Thru now...
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Ddead reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
I own both BECMI and Rules Cyclopedia and prefer ACKS II because of the cleaner layout, updated rules (including AD&D material), and the...
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Ddead reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
Once of the reasons why I like OSE, it is a tidied up set of books, with some updates like splitting race/class (while also keeping race...
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Ddead replied to the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?.That's a fair point. I guess to feel like you're a part of something that is a "contemporary" system that's being supported and updated...
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Ddead reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel? with Like.
It has 8 eight hours of sleep required to restore casting ability as was standard in the pre-4e days. Not as such, although a character...
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Ddead replied to the thread Would ACKS be a good fit to capture the BECMI-feel?.That would be a bit of a turn off if it were too "spreadsheety". But I guess it would be hard to write a system on domain management...