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The OSE/FA Banshee looks more similar to the AD&D1 Banshee (Groaning Spirit) rather than the OSE Banshee (Haunt).

This has been my experience as well. The OSE/AF material is well scaled to the core OSE rules, allowing you to use as much or as little as you want.

I played a fair amount fo D&D way back when using the Rules Cyclopedia - which is kind of a single-book compilation of BECMI. To my mind, it was every bit as "advanced" as AD&D insofar as considering extra options to be advanced - but the options were different (many of which I liked better...

Which strikes me as an odd decision if that really was Marvel’s direction. After all, being “similar” to D&D is not of much value unless you can advertise as being similar to D&D.

Advanced makes for an adequate (possibly superior) AD&D workalike, while staying more B/X compatible that AD&D itself was. I've had good experiences letting players who wanted to build their characters using OSE/AF and using them in OSE games with no obvious disparity. Also, I think if I were...

This is one of those areas where I think the Hero System scale worked a bit better. Instead of each point doubling the effect, every five points doubled it. It sacrificed the ability to lift the Moon within PC range, but allowed for a bit more granularity (particularly noticeable at the low end).

My only real thought here is “if it has no effect on game play, don’t quantify it”

I've used the Open Dyslexic font quite a bit. Both of my kids struggled with different degrees and types of reading disorders - and it did help them quite a bit. From a personal (non-dyslexic) perspective, I find the use of that font considerably slows down my reading (like many people, I read...

The RC was probably my favorite ‘official’ D&D ever published, but I think OSE is easier to read and (more importantly in play) easier to find things quickly in. That said, RC was really BECMI in one book while OSE is B/X - so there are differences. RC has ‘more’ than OSE. (The sad part is...

Roll20 is still the one I use most often - not so much because it’s great but because it provides the largest number of “good enough” tools in a single package.

Keen.

it varies pretty wildly based on the type/flavor/genre of the game. Old version of D&D and similar games have your characters start as little more than a naked snotling with a pointy stick, which tends to lean into the ‘heroes are made, not born’ philosophy. I tend to play a lot of superhero...

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My personal “one game to rule them all”, the game that I continue to fall back on whenever the latest ‘new shiny’ disappoints me, is Hero System. Robust, flexible, and I know it well enough that the system mostly just get out of way at the table.

You're assuming that it was Hasbro's idea to create RPGs based on these properties. It seems more likely (to me at least), that Renegade approached Hasbro to license these properties for RPGs, as they already had done so for card games.

I used to have one of these. (1-34 is a common range of numbers for lotteries.)

yeah, it's a pretty ridiculous position. Every version of D&D, taken as an artifact of its time, was a good game. Was it the best game? Probably not (although OD&D might be able to claim that by nature of being first), but it was a good, playable game that many people enjoyed. By and large...

Evernote. All my notes in the cloud, accessible from whatever device I have at hand.

Mongoose’s starter set for 2nd ed Traveller is pretty great. Nearly the entire rule set, plus a pretty good starter campaign (in the form of a series of linked adventures).