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Racnica and Theros.

It's a pretty wild ride, but that's Kirby.

Mostly Kirby Air Riders and Donkey Kong Banana, though sometimes I like to open up the NES App on my Switch and play Punch Out, Excite Bike, or Balloon Fight.

That is the key element introduced by giving the Complication a bonus to the main D20 test: a player may want to get a Complication to accomplish their main goal if they did not roll high enough on the D20. Hence in Cosmere, the difference between Advantage and Disadvantage is if the DM or...

Not per standard, but that is a pretty minor house rule if desired...and introducing a second axis could make it advantageous.

One thing that Cosmere does with the Plot Due is all low the player to choose if Adv/Disadv will apply to the D20, a damage die, or the plot die...and that allows for stacking a/d, too. And situations where a player will choose a Complication on the Plot Die to allow a success on a d20 test that...

Yeah, after a certain point it is just dealing the hand dealt by a previous group of people.

At any rate, any label WotC decided to go with is to a large extent marketing: 4E is not the fourth iteration of D&D, nor is the 2024 rule set a secret sixth one because there have been more than 6 before it.

Math rocks go clackity clack.

"The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil." - Sister...

There were also multiple iterations of D&D after the Mentzer version, too, and one might say 3E is a straight line from AD&D, nor 4E from 3E. Kind of messy.

It was designed to be an introduction to OD&D itself, which was still being actively printed and on sale in stores alongside it.

I was playing the Switch 2 demo last night for the next gen Dragonquest VII Reimagined, and it is freaking gorgeous in UHD. One of the problems these days in seeing the difference is that compressed streaming previews realty don't do justice to how much better things look in UHD.

Holmes was really not the starter set for AD&D, though, it was a cleanup of OD&D instead. Having read OD&D, AD&D and Moldvay in some depth, Moldvay is a rewrite of OD&D by someone with more training in writing and more experience running D&D than Gygqx had in 1974.

As @zakael19 suggests, more dice are always welcome. The nest thing about the d6 as implemented in the Cosmere rules is the feel-good element the bonus the Complication adds to the main die toll, which makes a Complication potentially desireable to a player while spicing up the narrative.