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It was interesting and had potential, but I mostly came down on the side of not really seeing LG paladin Hieroneous and LG cleric St. Cuthbert churches allying with explicitly evil Vecna priests just to war upon pact magic users. Possibly if pact magic were unleashing an apocalypse or destroying...

Necrotic Gnome does OSE, a B/X retroclone so it is fairly close to 2e, including optional advanced rules to put 1e classes and spells and monsters into a B/X framework. Things will be a little weaker than AD&D (B/X PCs have smaller HD, smaller max ability score bonuses, etc.) Their Dolmenwood...

One way is to keep random charts but have something like 5e advantage on the rolls so you are likely to get something applicable to the situation and what you are doing, that will give you more of the good stuff when you need it, but also have some randomness. For the failure when recoverable...

It is sort of random twice, once in rolling up the four zero level characters, but then again as you try and protect your characters and death comes randomly and easily. I think my first funnel death came from everybody make a luck roll, those who fail die, in which there is no way to protect...

Yes, but for viewing say Deadlands I do not know if it was an attempt to make it a glorification or whitewashing of the Confederacy or an attempt to make a gameable Weird West with no slavery but a plot element of prolongation of the Civil War and giving people from the American South as a...

FRQ1 Haunted Halls of Eveningstar (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Remains: ? Weird Undead: ? Undead Creature of Unusual Fighting Prowess: ? Crawling Claw, Skeletal Human Hand, Hand, Animated Guardian: ? Hlauntar, Lich: ? Mummy, Occupant, Undead Attacker: ? Shadow: ? Skeleton: ? Ju-Ju Zombie: ?

You then get the question of whether dark satire space marines as the heroic good guys of the 40K universe are taken straight as non satire space Nazi heroes. Judge Dredd gets this too.

I don't know about that, in many things I would really want at least a little more data. I am put off by both the Confederacy romanticizing of both fiction that whitewashes the Confederacy by making them not really about slavery (I believe the Deadlands version has them naturally move past...

Troll Lord Games looks like most of their PDFs are 50% off.

FRM1: The Jungles of Chult (2e) 2e Undead: ? Undead Minion: ? Chultan Undead: ? Ghast: ? Ghost: When a worshiper of Ubtao dies, he is called before his maker and told to draw the maze that represents his own life. If he is successful in doing this, he is invited into Ubtao's home. If he fails...

From reading it, it was very cool and flavorful, but the mechanics did not seem to create a coherent D&D character role niche and did not seem to be designed to make a useful or powerful set of powers. You had huge flexibility day to day in setting your powers for the day, but they each seemed...

FRC2 Curse of the Azure Bonds (1e/2e) 2e Crimdrach, Dracandros of the Crimson, Dracolich, Undead Dragon, Great Gray-Red Dragon His Scales Translucent and Stretched Tight Over the Dragon’s Skeleton, Master, Lying Thieving Sort, Faithful Ally, Liar, First Ally: Crimdrac was created by the Cult of...

Eh, Sort of. 5e 14 says a DM can call for rolls or not, here is the system for calling for rolls including a difficulty chart. You can know if a check is called for how good your PC is compared to your buddy's PC from the stats on your sheet. If there is a check it gives a common framework and...

You seem to be under the misapprehension that because I do not like an element of a piece of fiction and I am critical of that element that I don't like the fiction as a whole. I really like Firefly, Deadlands, Wheel of Time, etc. though I am not a fan of the elements of them that romanticizes...

Non weapon proficiencies were in the 2e PH and part of a whole chapter on proficiencies and had done out ability based mechanics for a lot of them (some were like feats in giving non ability based stuff). They were, however, explicitly an optional 2e system and not the only one. A lot of options...