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It's funny, I've played OSR games for about 5 years now and we've never found that 15 minute adventuring day or wizard weaknesses to be an actual issue at the table. I even played a wizard on several occasions and had a great time. As a DM I love the de-emphasis on player-boosting mechanics as...

You can either get is as separate books (rules, classes, spells, treasure, monsters) or as one book. I've played some systems that have separate books and it makes it way easier to manage at the table.

Typically systems will pause to give the player an opportunity to react, or defer. And you're making a real assumption about the game needing to adjudicate a mob attack.

I would like an option to vote that I don't care which system they use. So instead I'm voting for their current system.

Cool idea, but isn't that the very definition of an adventure 'railroad'? :)

I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that D&D 5e is bad for a CRPG. The user experience between an AD&D 1e, 2e or 5e computer game will be negligible. The computer game just won't have as much stuff to automate under the hood.

Wow. I stand corrected. That's a really nice combat tracker. If only all these different tools integrated. Any of them bold enough to open up their APIs? One can dream...:)

Well you can maintain DLC and have a new UI. But I get it - they have an existing (and growing) customer base that they most definitely have to maintain; and designing new UIs is very, very expensive. My point remains that it's unfair to compare D&D Beyond to what FG does as FG has 15 years of...

Awesome! I look forward to seeing these updates getting pushed out.

But FG has also had years to develop these features. D&D Beyond is a very new product. And while I love the capabilities of FG, their user interface is a massive barrier for me personally. The FG Unity Kickstarter really missed a chance to modernize the user experience.

I've run lots of OSR campaigns since leaving 4e and for me as a DM it has two major pluses for me: 1. It's incredibly fast at the table. I always get x2-x4 more done in a single session than with 3e-5e. 2. Without abilities, feats, etc, players focus much more on how they can get better in the...

Yeah, being able to keep campaign notes and annotating content are two big ones for me. I've looked at other campaign tracking online tools and they all have limitations as well. So for now I'm using OneNote with the SRD loaded.

First time I've used ENWorld's ignore feature. Works quite well, though it would be nice if other people stop replying. :)

That marriage isn't going to last long... :ROFLMAO:

I don't see the combat tracker being useful to me just yet as I don't use the encounter builder at the table. At first glance it seemed ok with the few features it has: Integration to encounter builder Initiative order tracker hit point tracker cross reference to monster stat block Some...

Now 10 pages. As a software engineer with 25 years of experience across many different industries, I have opinions on this software quality discussion, but will refrain as that's not really what I come here to ENWorld to talk about. But I will admit to being tempted. There, that's all I'll say...

Man. 9 pages of software methodology and quality arguments.

I agree with all your points. I've looked at various digital tools and find D&D Beyond to be the best for at the table utility. Their character sheet and rules cross referencing are highly functional and gave me confidence they know what they're doing and know how to deliver. I also like that...

In our megadungeon crawls I draw on a battle mat and the mapper transcribes from there. Eliminates all the needless description of what they should be able to gage visually. I will take a glance at the map they make at the end of the session and only correct mistakes that should be obvious to them.

I've run a mega-dungeon in B/X and it was useful to the players for planning. When I get PCs to go into a mega-dungeon in 5e, I'm going to reward them XP for 'discoveries' for bringing maps back out to a patron.