Recent content by mamba

no, it takes more than that, but it would have been a step in the right direction, yet they did not even take that one, unfortunately good, I do not really want any of that anyway ;) Will wait and see what others have to say, would be more interested in the generic version, so have some time…...

I wasn't thinking of going all the way to ditching Vancian, but to synchronize subclass progression and gain subclass features at the same level, etc.

the biggest mistake 2024 made in my book was to not have one, sacrificed on the altar of misguided compatibility why do they have classes at all, rather than going skill based?

Diversification is good, they are better off not having all eggs in one basket. I would not see this as necessarily meaning they are distancing themselves from D&D

you said ‘technology’, not ‘talent pool’. I don’t disagree that there are talented artists around today as well. You get a hard disagree that early AD&D (i.e. the pictures in your post) used any of them however, TSR could not afford them at the time

sorry, what? The technology has not really changed all that much when it comes to painting and printing pictures. What has changed is TSR's / WotC's art budget

I agree with most of what you wrote here, apart from maybe what exactly the chance of failure should be. Many of the replies to the OP sounded like it is their own damn fault for even getting into combat however, that they should have known better than to do that and that failure at a check is...

I am not sure how that even works, aren’t the players deciding what room they go in next? the ‘characters are inept and should have a 50% chance to be killed by one hit from a goblin’ sounds like the system to me, not just a bad DM

I don’t know, it feels like it means both monsters and regular NPCs, certainly the ‘You're not supposed to have a reasonable chance for a check’ is not in comparison to monsters in most stories those monsters are not the 1HD kind (‘1HD monsters are supposed to have a 50/50 shot of their damage...

but this very much sounded like it which is what I replied to

it’s not the rules light I was commenting on but that supposedly the characters should be weak, below average, sucking at things and dying like flies. 5e is more heroic than I would like, but this sounds like it way overshot in the other direction Esp. with none of that being pointed out in...

yeah, if it is designed to be played like that, then lead with this, instead of having people discover it over their first dozen TPKs

sounds awful, no wonder @Retreater bounced off it

Have you taken a look at Land of Eem? It's kind of a modern-ish, relatively simple OSR, maybe it fits what you are looking for https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/322009/land-of-eem-rpg-quickstart-guide The books are 30% off right now...

on the upside, since it is digital only, that is easy to fix