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In 3x, you can Identify potions by sipping and a Spellcraft check, and scrolls with Read Magic or Spellcraft. I don’t recall if it’s...

Huh, you're absolutely right. Somehow I've missed it and been playing it like 1e this whole time. Eh, I think I'll keep doing it that way.

Was it 4e, then, where you'd learn all the properties of a magic item just by having it in your possession for 24 (?) hours? In 1e...

GURPS Horror: Family reunion; tropical island; shadows.

It was: A human fighter, for instance, started at 15+1d4 years old, always putting them in the "young adult" group, giving them -1...

Many people on this boards discuss how it can be very difficult to find a non-5e game in their area. I only game with friends so the...

I understand now. I was starting to reply hot myself, but hopefully toned it down to “huh, explain”. Good to meet you, as it were...

My pleasure! And my apologies if my response was blunt, but I hope you understand my reaction? When people post about moding 5E instead...

I thought about different editions for different planets in the Prime more in thinking about Mystara (the Known World, the Basic...

A big 1E thing was random character death outside of combat. With two common ones: Death by environment. A character might fall off a...

I always hear about this, but in the 10 or so years we played 1e in the 80s-90s our group never had hirelings of any kind. I am not sure...

I think one of the big mood shifts, that happened sometime between 3rd and 4th, is the stripping away of consequences from player...

Not endorsing a play style, adding to the conversation to morph 5E to look like 1E. And yeah, for different folks different strokes...

Late to the discussion, but genuine thoughts having had a similar feeling when I was running Pathfinder/3.5 and 5E was on the horizon. I...

1e combat has tight rules. But everything else is almost entirely narrative. For 5e to resemble this, I would emphasize skills checks...