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What percentage of the book is dedicated to WOTC art versus TSR art?

So...how many things does this break? It doesn't exactly break shield master--it's still useful to knock someone down for everyone else's sake, even if it's much less useful for the shield master (and while it makes sense from a reading perspective, the power now makes far less sense from a...

Alexander, Lloyd 23 Bulfinch, Thomas 21 Cook, Glen 21+1=22 Jemisin, N.K. 21-2=19 Kay, Guy Gavriel 23 LeGuin, Ursula 24 Lynch, Scott 21 McKillip, Patricia 23 Peake, Mervyn 18 Pratchett, Terry 20 Sanderson, Brandon 16 Smith, Clark Ashton 6 Wolfe, Gene 25

If these survey questions are any indication, WOTC really hates my money.

If these survey questions are any indication, WOTC really hates my money.

Aranea were cool. I'm a big fan of the Tarantella.

That makes a lot more sense--the idea that it promoted communication was the part that broke my brain a little. Still think it's a bad idea--but glad we see eye to eye that this is not a communication tool.

Pretty much any time someone begins a response with "So you're saying" or "So you're okay with", what follows is almost universally an attempt to twist a persons words into a straw man that's easier to attack. But taking you at face value, which is more than you are doing for me, if I...

If that is the case, it is the most obtuse, backwards logic I have ever heard since the last time I watched a congressional debate. Providing someone with nonnegotiable power to stop something doesn't encourage communication; it actively discourages it. Why should the person with the power...

What's to get? Why would I want to hold a groups fun hostage to one person?

I almost didn't post anything, but in a lot of cases, these kinds of ideas go without any kind of serious pushback because the people who don't like the ideas are afraid of the kind of outrage that will result from disagreement. But that just breeds the kind of false consciousness that such...

<raises hand> Starting a new game tomorrow evening, using B/X (ie the best ruleset).

I'll have to check the B/XFRP out. I wouldn't even consider rolling "5 or 6 instead of 1 or 2" to be a change; it's still a 2 in 6 chance. You could roll a d12 and count 9 through 12; or roll d100 and count everything 33% or less. Old school game don't have "mechanics"; they have odds. As...

Honestly I'm not a big fan of most of the retroclones. I'd rather just kit bash something together from the original rules. The thing about retroclones is, everybody has something they don't like about the original rules, but I've never found a retroclone that "fixed" the same things I'd fix...

Seems like most of the 0ed love goes to retroclones. My particular ambrosia is Erol Otus cover B/X and AD&D, but from a historical perspective I love to talk about everything pre-2nd edition, so I'm always up for discussion of it, including 0ed.

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but are these just new covers or is there also new interior art?

I did a search...it seems there was something with a Kickstarter? The thing is...provenance of the information aside, it's largely accurate based on everything I have read and what I remember from gaming back then. That sort of information is heavily implied in the 1e DMG, though it must be...

What did he do?

Is Vox mainstream though? I thought it was just something to make fun of on Twitter.

The first part of assumption 1 conflicts with the second part of assumption 1. Feats are not cruch. They are anti crunch. They're a way to portioning out interesting combat options to a handful of characters so that characters only ever have 1 or 2 things to do...maybe they do trips, or maybe...