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I'd also vote 5E since that'll be the easiest for you to get products, support, and info about in the long run. I'd also suggest that you grab/watch/listen to a random handful of either youtube videos or podcasts of other people playing to give you an idea of some of the possible ways to play...

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen written on these forums.

I just want to bring this up because in the vast flood of recent responses, it seems as though a essential bit of explanation was either missed, or is being ignored. Cellphone guy and the ranger who sold the gear are not the same person. Randrak was complaining about two different things.

Incorrect. Not every party is more like the Justice League. As evidence, I point you to pretty much every person who is disagreeing with you in this thread.

It might be less insulting if you took it the way he probably meant for it to be taken. I don't think there's any need to assume that Jester's suggesting that new characters be treated as though they were enslaved, unpaid interns.

The only foes were CR1 people and CR>1 monsters. Fairness and balance have nothing to do with it, I'm talking about a rule that exists as an abstract. There is absolutely no reason that "new characters start at first level" has to dictate some kind of universal truth about the game world...

"you're" ;) As for Tux, although I can fully understand wanting to encourage many of those behaviors, I think that by formalizing a list of commandments, all you're going to do is make people uneasy and encourage troublemakers to make trouble around the edges of your rules. I think that you...

Speaking only for myself, in the E6 game I ran the world DID only consist of 1st level people, and PCs were something special that were able to go above and beyond what normal people were capable of doing. The way we envisioned it was akin to how the ancient Greeks or Romans were normal...

DUDE!? What's the first rule of Shamans of the Doom Volcano?!

I've had an on again off again relationship with fumbles since I started playing D&D. For the most part, when we used them, we preferred systems that weren't just friendly fire crit tables. I think my favorite to run with was akin to what Monte was describing, when a character fumbled, I'd...

[TANGENT!] For a very, very brief time I tried running a friend who had been blind since birth through an RPG playing a character who could see. Holy crap was that a challenging experience.

I can only remember one, in a game where I was a player, who not only wasted a good chunk of everyone else's weekly game time arguing over how much XP they should get (especially arguing for XP and earned wealth over fast forwarded down time) but who argued over XP from missed sessions...

I can count at least one hands-worth of people who I've played with over the years who did not care at all for the camaraderie or chance to be social. To them, playing in an RPG was nothing more than some kind of psychological fix to gather and accumulate points on a personal high score board.

I am a HUGE fan of this type of game, but what is different about this than any of the other One Night Ultimate games that are out there at the moment? We have a choice between Vampire, Werewolf, and Revolution now, right? Is it just the other characters available, or are they all just...

Ars and Burning Wheel were the first to come to mind, but if memory serves, I think that Everway fits the bill too.

If the only measuring stick you are going to use is "how many hit points, and how much damage can these two characters do" then you're going to see a difference. Bounded accuracy has absolutely nothing to do with the differences you keep pointing to.

Bounded accuracy also does not say that a 3rd level barbarian's hit points and rages are the same as a 15th level barbarian's.

I unfortunately have never played it, or tried using it as a map building tool, but I would be crazy surprised if there wasn't a thriving online community of people making and sharing maps, models, and textures. [EDIT] So there's (of course) a learning curve for the 3D rendering software but...

I think that it maybe has less to do with it being something that happens to "all RPGs equally" right now and more about that style of DMing being the encouraged and expected way to play by so many of the early systems that existed, once upon a time.

This was the same problem I ran into. Granted it was mostly a combination of me being really inexperienced, and that it was the wrong (excuse me I mean THE WRONG) kind of game for the group was a part of at the time. I saw the game I was planning as an interesting exploration of a culture that...