Recent content by Desdichado

A little more grounded, but similar. Naming conventions; I mean, it's not like Greyhawk had great ones either. Verbobonc? Blibdoolpoolp? The Duchy of Geoff?

If they're both fantasy games with similar basic setting assumptions, you probably don't need to adapt very much anyway. Just take the equivalent from one system in place of what you have in another. I never bother adapting stuff mechanically; I just substitute it for the most part.

Always a worthy endeavor. In fact, that's a specific example I could have given too.

Yes, of course. I've done it many times. If they're very mechanical in nature, I'm much less likely to be interested, but modules, campaigns, setting stuff, "fluff" generally; sure. I have no problem adapting anything mechanically into my framework with little effort, so unless the mechanics...

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, what you are proposing is much more than a unique approach to psionics; that's a ground-up redesign of all supernatural f/x in D&D altogether. That'll never happen except maybe in some alternative approach to the game that isn't specifically D&D.

See, again, I liked how they did it in 3e, where psionics was very explicitly different than magic. It used focus and powerpoints, and felt more like psychic powers as they're usually defined, and even when they had psionic powers that mimicked magic spells, they at least had a different...

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...