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Typo on my part: "It does sounds like a pretty close 3E Ranger analogue."

I like the idea, but I suspect most, if not all, of those licenses were for a set duration and have long since expired.

Just sat down with my CKG and crunched through what this really means. It does sounds like a pretty close 3E Ranger analogue. (y)

Leagues of Gothic Horror (an expansion for Leagues of Adventure) does a great job capturing the gothic horror trappings. Uses the Ubiquity system (from Hollow Earth Expedition).

It's a clever concept that reads well - but I've never actually used it in a game.

I don't really have a preference for generic or specific - in a general sense. It boils down to what I'm wanting to run. Sometimes I have very specific ideas in my head about the type of game I want to run, and there isn't, or I am unaware of, or I don't like any of, a specific set of rules...

Honestly, this one confuses me as well. I've only ever played xD&D rangers in AD&D - never in any of the "modern" editions of the game - where Rangers don't even get their spells until something like 8th level. Because high-level games were rare for me, I almost never had a Ranger that could...

The most reason two: Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space: Far too much prep on my part for a campaign built around former companions (players could choose to adapt actual companions from the TV series, or create a new original character who was a former companion of their favorite Doctor)...

Why oh why does ChatGPT want my phone number in order to create a login?

Because 'psionic' sounds exotic and 'psychic' makes people think of the Psychic Readers Network.

This is my preference. I think it not only makes more sense to the player, t makes life easier for the GM as they don't need to know if the Stat is Prime when coming up with the difficultly - the difficulty is always the same.

Are the cards a randomizing agent, or do they represent meta-currency to be managed?

It's not so much the running D&D as a competitive game that confuses me. It's not my cuppa, but I've seen it done for decades. It's the trying to turn that into a spectator sport that hurts my head. Watching other people play a RPG bores me to tears. (Even obviously scripted "actual plays"...

Ok, I'll admit it - I'm really having difficulty wrapping my head around the idea of D&D as an e-sport. I watch a lot RPG-related video content, but typically reviews and walkthroughs - but D&D as an e-sport sounds like "actual play" territory, which bores me nearly as much as watching paint dry.

Hmmm.... I'd been stalling on buying the Central Supply Catalogue. Procrastination for the win!

The Realms being Heartlands-centric so far as publish material goes never really bothered me though. The North and the Savage Frontier - using the information from Jaquay's "Savage Frontier" provided a lot of opportunity to built my own stuff, but still use the official lore as I wanted. (I did...

Hands down my favorite “real” D&D (as opposed to a retro-clone). That said, Basic Fantasy is available in print really cheap ($6.25 for book + PDF) - you could buy a copy for everyone if you’re feeling generous. It resembles B/X, but with a few AD&D features and ascending AC.

I've actually been looking forward to this move. I'm still finding more boxes of RPG stuff in my attic as I've never had enough shelf space to have it all accessible at once - but in the new house my office has floor to ceiling book shelves covering two walls and more shelf space in a weird...

As other have implied, Hero System's reputation for complexity is (mostly) undeserved. Character creation - primarily at the super-powered end of the scale - can be quite complex; but actually playing the game is pretty straightforward with a relatively simple task resolution mechanic.