Recent content by Scurvy_Platypus

Yeah. 😞 Like I said, I'm willing to do the work but it'd be a lot easier if 5e had some point-buy options. I'm aware of Anime5e existing but won't touch it for a variety of reasons. Maybe I'll just have to figure out something myself; however, that still requires an underlying base, so that if I...

Quick resolution and simple is my basic inclination. I prefer to run games that are high-action/octane and over-the-top; I want my party kicking down the doors and going in wands blazing and kicking some villain from one room to another. To match that, I want monsters that are gonna be...

Thanks folks. I'm aware of Flee Mortals but haven't picked it up; there's so many monster books out there, it's hard to know exactly where to start collecting. Also, I'm not in a space of being able to collect more books now, even in electronic form. I kinda gotta use what I've already got or be...

Making my own. A source to use for monsters... there's a horde of them. That number increases significantly, the more willing I am to look at a source that isn't strictly D&D. However, even within the D&D eco system, you've got 3rd parties which may or may not have figured their monsters...

I've had a...time limit... placed on me, due to health reasons. So I find myself wondering "What should I be using for monsters now?" Like... should I fish out my 2014 DMG, should I go with Forge of Foes, or... something else entirely? Back in 3.5, I was heavily into monster creation and all...

Edit: deleted to start its own thread. Apologies.

Sadly, my original update(s) got eaten and I'm not sure there's actually a market for it now but... They did this 20 years ago and called it Everstone: Bloodstone Legacy. BESM20-based, although their implementation was a bit rough around the edges. Moon Magi: Focused on travel and...

I'm Scurvy Platypus and I approve this message... So, with that being the case... I'm going to go waaaaaaaay back to the dawn of time (20 years ago) and suggest a BESMd20 product you can still get, dirt cheap... Everstone: Bloodstone Legacy...

The main problem with an edible version, is that as the game progresses, you have fewer and fewer rules. Although that might not actually be a problem for some folks.

Howdy folks and Happy Holidays. It's been quite some time since I've poked in here but I found myself in need of an editable SRD of the 5.2.1 flavour. Nothing seemed to be here, so I went searching... eventually, I managed to stumble across this...

Howdy. Fellow by the name of Steven Cooper rather exhaustively covered the differences back in...2006. Helpfully, he put all his notes into little pdfs. I've still got mine, but it looks like it's still accessible via the Wayback Machine...

From an in-progress draft of rules... Instead of trying to explain what a rpg “is” and then comparing it to cops and robbers or collaborative storytelling, or some other thing, let’s define what a rpg is in the context of these rules. A roleplaying game is a game in which the participant(s) make...

Hmmmm. But at that point, aren't you actually liable to run into the problem that GM's complain about, the 15 minute day? Only now, it's more like 3 minute day. Nobody will want to advance or do anything because they're down a few hit points and so they've lost their special bennie. If anything...

There isn't really a solution that I've seen offered over the years that "does it all" The bit about PF2? That's similar to SDC and Hitpoints from Palladium. The Vitality and Hitpoint variant from 3.5 also hits within this space...

I understand. My point though is that Basic and all the subsequent sets were their own deal. There were modules published for them, etc. What's now known as BECMI was a full on ruleset that people could stay with or could drop and move to AD&D if they wanted. What has been offered since then...