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The three most important things about 3.x that brought me back after drifting away from 1e & 2e were, in order of decreasing importance...

Well, part of that was because 3e was the edition that often fished people back in who had long since drifted away, and what brought...

I responded to the poll back when but didn't post a comment. So now I'll post that I found 2e to be a modest advance over AD&D 1e, and...

1. A reveal that the supposed fantasy campaign is actually post-apocalypse, which is something I can sometimes admire from a distance...

Id say that the biggest problem is that the dmg section quoted by @Maxperson really only applies to tier1 PCs and breaks down as players...

This review makes me think that all versions of turning are way too fiddly. If I were designing it from scratch, I'd probably make it a...

I'll add: I'm unfond of critical hit systems in general, and while I'm not quite annoyed enough by the 3.5e version to reflexively apply...

I don't want them to get crits on undead, but I do want them to get their class damage bonuses (favored enemy and sneak attack)...

Rare <-> Medium Rare. If you go beyond that, its likely a sin.

I voted "no apocalypse" but it somewhat depends on how one defines "apocalypse." Is medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire...

If the NPC Elf can stumble over this book in his youth, why can't the PCs? Why are only PCs obliged to adventure in order to find it?

So my issue with this is that the character and player decision space becomes divergent. Like the characters cannot make plans based on...

You tell us, those questions are not relevant to the problem or original scenario. Which is it and why does it matter when the original...

The PCs are special narrative helps feed confirmation bias and reject any evidence to the contrary stepping up to the wall of "it's...

How a game, table and campaign answers the question "How special are the PCs?" defines a lot. 5e has very different answers than 0D&D/Basic