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I agree with this, thought my opinion is only based on reading since I haven't gotten Valda's to the table yet. My only complaint with the book is that I wish the "joke" subclasses were separated out or at least tagged so it is easier to allow players to use it while keeping a campaign on-tone.

I'm not going to call out the whole game as bad, there's a lot of good stuff in it. But my single most disliked mechanic in a TTRPG is the Zealot Class's healing ability in Errant. When the Zealot heals someone, they roll 2d6. If they roll a 3 or lower, they instantly kill their target...

5e is linked to Wotc and Hasbro until such a time that they're no longer selling physical and digital products for it. Even if you play a 5e-compatible clone or 5e-compatible expansions, by playing it and talking about it, you are keeping Wotc's current product line relevant. As much as people...

I like OSE for its Advanced and CC zine expansions, as well as for at its core being Exactly B/X without a bunch of Author House Rules or changes. I can choose exactly how much extra stuff to add to the Core experience, rather than the changes and tweaks being baked in. Its extremely usable at...

Do you intend to include Procedures for play to use in these settings? A modern game won't be doing a lot of dungeon exploration or wilderness hexcrawling. What are you replacing those with? Similarly - what will be replacing treasure/magic items and gold to XP? I can't imagine a modern spy...

OneDnD is, from the latest playtest direction, basically paid patch notes for 5e. It will supplant it as the lingua franca of TTRPGs, inevitably. Tales of the Valiant and any other 3pp 5e-based games are only ever going to be that - 3rd party products. TotV will never replace D&D.

Shout outs to some great games which were fully released under open license over the past year - Basic Roleplaying: UGE (ORC) Ironsworn Starforged (CC) Pathfinder Remastered (ORC) Mythras Imperative (ORC) Cypher System Shadowdark And I am sure others that I've forgotten or missed!

I grabbed my quote off the Advanced Fantasy Genre small book. Everything you have quoted is "Basic Game" stuff - which is Open and even has an SRD. That's all the stuff from the original B/X which Gavin ported. All his original stuff that he created for the "Advanced Game" are defined as...

This is not an uncommon thing - Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy includes this line: " All text and tables not declared as Open Game Content are product identity. DESIGNATION OF OPEN GAME CONTENT The table of Secondary Skills (p52) is Open Game Content. " Tons of OGL products similarly...

The default DC for Aid has been dropped to 15, making it a useful choice at all levels instead of being a trap option until around level 4-5.

Shields have fundamental runes now. Any shield can become a Sturdy Shield. All Athletic Maneuvers have the Agile Trait when used with a free hand.

For 5e specifically: https://www.runagame.net/2016/05/understanding-5e-d-skills.html https://www.runagame.net/2017/10/players-self-assigning-rolls.html

Does anyone have a working link to download the original 3.0, not 3.5, version of the SRD? (in .RTF)

This, to me, is what defines classic d&d/OSR: "Your Table Will Vary". Because of missing rules, contradictory rules, hidden rules, or confusing wording, every Referee and every table will play differently. There is no one true way to play. There is no "wrong" way to play. Any attempt in...

Moldvay X59: "A Common mistake most DMs make is to rely too much on random die rolls. An entire evening can be spoiled if an unplanned wilderness encounter on the way to the dungeon goes badly for the party. The DM must use good judgement in addition to random tables. Encounters should be...

Classic D&D games are only as dangerous as the DM allows them to be. The rulebooks and modules explicitly encouraged experienced Referee's to fudge or pre-decide damage or d20 rolls. Magic users can easily survive level 1- the referee just has to select numbers which won't kill them undeservedly.

Can Forcecage, and other conjured magical effects, be attacked and destroyed? Forcecage, unlike its little brother Wall of Force, it is not explicitly immune to damage. If a Forcecage is an Object, it should have Hit Points and an AC, as all objects do. But is it an object? Bigby's Hand...