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Just got the Level-Up Advanced 5E Player's book and order Old-School Traps (5E) for my wife. She's been complaining the DMG doesn't have any traps listed in it, so I figured this would be a good book to kill us by.

Before all the drama with the Bledsaws came to light, a friend gave me the Mayfair boxed sets of City-State (and add-ons), and I'd managed to get a hold of the 1E & 3E versions of City-State. I would like to get this, as I'm sure with the other OAR it'll have a history section about the old...

I'm not much for Erol Otus as cover/color art, but I do like a lot of his interior black-and-white pieces. Nice to see he's still creating and being appreciated though!

Most of the times I name the gem, but ask for a skill check to identify value. Makes things like having proficiency in Gemcutter's tools worth taking. As a gemstone collector, sometimes I get mean and describe it (or hold up one of my sample stones) and they'll have to suss out what it is...

Would it at least be a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style book?

I used to think that I needed a system for everything, to the Nth degree - like 3E D&D. Nowadays, I'm happier with a more open system and less detail. As long as it has some structure to fairly handle "did it work?" and allow someone to specialize (or be absolutely rotten) in doing whatever...

If it wasn't a case of "cancel and go home", probably a board game (Settlers, Zombicide, D&D 4E board game, etc.) or pull out a deckbuilding, CCG or card game everyone knows - for me and mine it would be MtG (I have a handful of the prebuilt decks from days gone by), Lord of the Rings...

Hope you have more luck than I did. I was still in a D&D mentality when we tried it (back in the 90s?). It lasted one session. As my brother said, "I will. never. play. this. game. again." Which makes me sad as I've learned so much about non-hack'n'slash games since then and it's a really...

TBH, I was not aware of any of this.

I'm a bit broader in my definition, in that a game's dead when 1) No one's heard of it/there isn't a community for it 2) No company is making product for it 3) No one's picked up the ball to produce ongoing content People can still be playing it if it's "dead", but if noone's making content...

Also, @Voadam brings up a good point - there are a lot of statless "coffee table" books out there for famous worlds that can be good sources for running worlds - at our house we have the likes of a world book of Pern, Song of Fire & Ice, Dark Crystal, Legend of Zelda, a couple of Magic the...

It could be the two are of different races/species that are in opposition to each other - imagine a Goblin King and Elf Queen at each other's throats with their minions caught in the middle battling each other comes to mind. Or Demons vs. Devils, Celestials vs. Fiends, Drow vs. High Elves...

Please pardon me as I toot my own horn. I've learned the hard way to do my campaign worlds systemless. I'm in the process of updating my personal home campaign world book (Amberos/The Dark Summit, replacing art and updating entries), but it's not ready yet. It's a kitchen sink fantasy world...