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After I've seen this, I totally want to play 3 Bards and one Barbarian!

I'll say that I'm at least intrigued. Will it be a masterful, chocolate-and-peanut-butter blend of two great but seemingly incompatible...

Watched it at the cinema a few days ago, and yeah, it was really great. My favourite scenes are actually not the comical moments (though...

I couldn't tell you what they're doing to nail the Traveller vibe, but leaving proficiency bonus+feats+levels is scary enough to keep...

That's a really great idea! I never thought of keeping a "death score", I will do that with the next one.

I never restarted because of a failed combat, but I did make note of how many times I failed at combat. At the end, I would look at how...

Well, I guess that any misunderstandings about that will clear up pretty quickly. There's little risk that anyone will back this not...

By the way, didn't Timothy Brown write the Dragon Kings setting? I actually really liked that one ...

Let's revive this Fighting Fantasy thread! I recently played through Forest of Doom and Citadel of Chaos with my kids (8 and 11)...

Very confusing ... if you transplant the core activities of Traveller to 5e, even if you are succesful, what do you get but an RPG that...

I think I have a hard time to with the kind of decision-making where equipment is essential - I think it would usually be technical...

Too many good points to answer them individually! My takeaway is that my disconnect is mainly due to the fact that I tend to prefer...

I really like a lot of the ideas behind recent streamlined old-school games like Into the Odd, Mausritter, Shadowdark, Liminal Horror...

Templates are, indeed, a good solution, but you need to almost present them as a default; if you just put it in as an optional tool...

Hopefully some of the 20-odd pages of new content in the revised rule book will promote the use of templates and provide examples.