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sounds awful, no wonder @Retreater bounced off it

I never liked D&D back in the day because of the rapid character death, the horribly boring dungeons and the slow crawl of hitting every...

You don’t like anything! But I appreciate the review.

I’ve said it before and here it goes again: AD&D 2e with some optional rules layered on to address some of your complaints is the game...

Also considering that it's basically "what if everything you liked about 5e and Critical Role but different" vs a completely separate...

It’s apples and oranges, really. Shadowdark is an OSR game with underlying mechanics very similar to 5E but with changes to push...

That can happen. But there's no reason to believe it has here, because they've sold through their entire first printing, and seemingly...

It's also a new rpg book that hasn't any connection to previous IP. You really don't want to sit on 10 000 copies when you sold 1000...

There’s something foundational here that tends to go unexamined: not why campaigns end early, but why the game assumes they should run...

If we want games to go to 20, more often, then there needs to be 3 major changes: 1) Power grading for classes needs to be brought...

The 4 major 5e campaigns I ran all got to ~10-11. At that point we'd resolved the story (Curse of Strahd twice, a home-brew Eberron...

What difficulty were you rolling against? Assuming using an ability with a +1 you should be at a 65-70% chance of success before party...

And some pretty dice! Really must get round to reading the rules!

D&D was a hard habit for me to break. It was my main game for decades. I’ve been through every edition. By the time I stepped away, both...