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Slightly OT, but will there be an Essential Ranger's Handbook after this? ;):)

I really don’t know how to work around the Perception issue. If you accept that skills existed in OSR just in an X-in-6 or percentile...

It's very long, because it's also a reference for my players, and I wanted to not have to go through a bunch of documents to find a...

That's the only thing I idealize about 3e - not the class builds and theorycrafting, but the breadth of the simulationist toolbox that...

a5e is your favorite iteration on the official rules?

How do you feel about a5e in comparison to AD&D?

See my message above. Not playing WotC's version of 5e fixes this problem.

The PCs in 5e also get exploration-negating spells/skills at a fairly low level that make the challenges of wilderness exploration moot...

To me it's the lore I'm after. If I back this, it will be pdf only, like Avatar. That design team reads as more narrative than I would...

Couldn't/wouldn't the architects of the OGL be called into court to talk about the intent of the license?

I've got the world's sassiest 11-year-old, and I don't imagine I could handle another

I don't know if 5E 2014 was the best ever, but imo, it was certainly better than 5E 2024.

I still don't understand, given the history of the game, how so many people have convinced themselves that 5E is the holy grail...

I backed some more projects since, the PHB2, Northlands, and now the Gothic KS, all for ToV. The reason is simple, I prefer it over the...

OD&D. Never played. Homles Basic. Never played. AD&D. Essentially defines D&D for me. Gritty and zero-to-hero, if you're lucky enough...