Recent content by Desdichado

I'm not sure what you mean by a spellcaster psion. Was the 3e psion and wilder a spellcasting class? Because I liked psionics quite a bit in 3e. So much so that I even ran a game where magic was replaced by psionics. But not because I thought psions were spellcasters.

I doubt my experience is representative, but I don't really care what mechanics a module or setting or campaign has. I don't run 5e, although I do play in a game of it. I readily read modules in 5e, 3e, OSR, Pathfinder 1e or 2e, DCC or even WFRP and if I like it enough to run, adapt or loot it...

Limited prep. A one-page bullet point outline will easily get me 10-15 hours of play.

I was about to say, "my own custom version that arguably may not be D&D anymore" but then I remembered that of course I'm also in a Tyranny of Dragons game. My character's a 5e character, but the GM has explicitly allowed us to use anything from 5.5 from D&D Beyond that we want. Given that I...

I have a difficult time believing that's a good faith question rather than an attempt to devolve into pedantic nitpicking, given that the answer is readily available with thirty seconds on Wikipedia. No thanks, not interested.

I don't know for sure about "modern" vs... what, non-modern? Old? Primitive? What's the operating word for "not modern?" I think rather that RPG mechanics have done through waves of what was or wasn't faddish. Modern can be a question of perspective; is it newer than older stuff? Is it older...

It's important to note that while Old Night is a fantasy setting; a true secondary world in a traditional sense, the tone and themes are not really all that D&D-like; the concept is specifically to play a Call of Cthulhu-like game in a fantasy world, with Lovecraftian magic and more discrete and...