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    D&D General What version of D&D are you playing?

    You probably have heard of it! "Ten-seventy" is the 1991 big black box (New Easy-to-Master D&D Game). "Eleven-six" is its smaller repackaging (Classic D&D Game, the 1994 tan box / 1996 small black box).
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    D&D General What version of D&D are you playing?

    I voted BECMI, but if we're going to treat Moldvay/Cook and Mentzer as separate editions, I'm not actually running either one. I run 1070/RC/WotI. The 1992 and 1986 Immortals rules are more different from each other than the 1982, 1983, and 1984 Expert Sets are.
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    Other D&D Variant What is your favorite version of D&D offshoot/D20 fantasy today? Tell us why it is the best!

    Beyond the Wall / Through Sunken Lands. Most would point to the playbooks or the "build the village" mechanic as the selling point, but for me, it's the magic system. BtW/TSL is like a B/X clone that caps at 10th level, with three core classes (fighter, rogue, and mage, where the mage also...
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    OSR [Old School Essentials] Advanced Fantasy Races?

    Advanced Labyrinth Lord / Advanced Edition Companion is the same. Outright says that you can have an elf and an elf fighter/magic-user adventuring next to each other and it'll work out just fine. And it does.
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    Hit points as luck

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