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I have backed and bought books from Level Up for almost the last 5 years now. I have bought very few 2014 and 2024 D&D books during that...

HP is intentionally very abstract. It doesn't matter until you get hit, and barely matters until you hit zero. Attributes are supposed...

Honestly it was some of the best renditions of armor since a Knight's Tale (and I don't mean that sarcastically....it really has been...

Ouch. That looked like it hurt... and that... and so did that... I feel like I just watched a Rocky movie.

Nope. Separate enough that I don't have to concern myself with WotC's product line anymore though.

I haven't heard anyone make the claim that Level Up was completely separate from 5e. They haven't fallen too far from the tree to be...

Yes, absolutely, although I am also very fond of ACKS (an iteration on the B/X rules, but with a lot of additions and much better math)...

Never said it was the most important, just a factor that should be considered. That's from you. And HP comes into play when you take...

Yeah, people do that all the time. It's hard as a player not to push for every advantage, whether or not it's true to your PC.

Well, in some cases, its not a hypothetical. People trying to sidestep their in-character social or intellectual lacks has not exactly...

Very different games. I played 1e for about 25 years off and on, and it's my favorite iteration on the official rules (assuming you're...

How depressingly abstract. I prefer more world modeling in my RPGs then you do, apparently.

To give GMs and players an idea of the range of actions to which....wait for it...you would apply a die roll modifier.

Agree. Level Up is one of the only 5e products that felt like it was made by gamers for gamers. Happy to report everyone in my little...

As I averred, its a particularly dumb or uncharismatic character who is regularly being played as smarter or smoother than they are...