Recent content by Scurvy_Platypus

tl;dr Your best approach, you you choose to go down this path, is to work from the Anime 5e set of rules. It's the "newest" overall and is explicitly geared towards 5e, whereas BESM and Tri-Stat are intended to be generic/supers rules systems. So they might be able to provide a bit of additional...

Forgive me if this is too vague, I've just finished a treatment and I'm up to my eyeballs on morphine right now... The bits quoted are the most...relevant?... in this discussion I think for me, at least in terms of sort of laying out the various competing problems. I've got this vague idea...

I personally like "zones" as a way to abstract out the encounter area. I tend to do Theatre of the Mind when I run combats, regardless of system. It can get a bit tricky though with D&D-based games, given its love of more precision. Not insurmountable but tricker. Definitely a space where...

Errr... which is true? Nimble 2e having its own rules/procedures as opposed to the first version, which has more of a hack to the 5e rules? Or the question as to whether or not "Damage on a miss" is simpler? As for the first, I'm only going based on what I've been able to see. I haven't...

Interesting. There's a slightly altered version from a couple of months later here: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/510669/One-Page-D20-Minimalist-Fantasy-Roleplaying Given your stipulation, this might also work for you...

Two bits of caution... The first is that the SRD is limited but not done so from the perspective of making things "simpler". The intent of the SRD is to provide a publishing resource for people. You might already be aware of that, but it seems like people these days think of the SRD as...

It might be helpful for you to define "stripped down". Lots of folks think that simply cutting it from level 20 down to 10 (or whatever their pet level limit is) is "stripped down"; I personally wouldn't however. Nimble gets bandied about a bunch but it's actually two different things, at least...

I voted "No" but... Broadly speaking, I like the gods existing overall as Forces, generally following like the Proto-Indo-European mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology These are the base Forces that "gods" get filtered through. Each species/culture has things...

No, I at least understand that Vikings were more complex than Conan. Trade with other cultures, including the Middle East (Turkey) I think. The note about Fatalist is interesting and valuable, thanks! Ah, interesting. I was aware that the æsir were fairly mobile in the rest of the realms but I...

Thanks for your thoughts. Happy to hear anything further. The setting for these rules is... post-apoc?... so I, happy to drift a bit from the traditional. Maybe I will take a Paladin and swap a bit of their abilities or something. Because of my discomfort with cultural appropriation, as well...

That looks cool. Unfortunately, I live in the land of the Southern Peso, so that $37 US becomes like $60 NZ. I'll have to think about maybe picking it up when the project is further along. Definitely looks interesting though. Classes... sigh... It's possible to work out the very basics (to hit...

I wanted to dive a bit deeper on this... I'm a bit torn on addressing base classes and their abilities. Just looking through the forums, there's so much noise about "what's broken" and why and how and how to solve it... I feel like I could ask 10 people for their opinion and get 15 different...

So, as far as specific pain points... I'm not looking to solve anything specifically, at least as far as the base classes are concerned. Which is why I haven't said anything specific about class tweaking or whatever. They're there, they don't seem to upset too many people too badly, they get the...

tl;dr A number of folks over the years have made comments to the effect of "if you don't like it, you can always build your own D&D". And they're right... you can. And since this is something that's been poking at me for the past 15 years or so, I've decided to do something about it. So, I'm on...

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...