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So basically: "I'm fine with sh***y behaviour, as long as it doesn't affect me."

Mythras (basically a setting-neutral version of Runequest)

This meme comes to mind:

I really really hope —and I say this with the uttermost respect and love for the brand "Dungeons & Dragons"— that this thing blows up in their face monumentally! I hope that the "bubble will burst" and D&D becomes dormant for a while until it can rise up from the ashes under new management. I...

I don't disagree. But "is harmed by positive energy and healed by negative energy" is a pretty damn big part of the Undead theme. Removing it for the sake of unification would actually make me less eager to play an undead character. But anyway, I don't see "undead" as a race or a species: it's a...

What good is an "undead race" if you have to excise all the tropes that define undead, just to make them work mechanically as a PC race. [emoji2359][emoji2359][emoji2359]

Yeah... Didn't work for me. Butbthen again, I always played Malkavian. [emoji2359]

Both of these things can easily be mitigated if the party includes hirelings/retainers: if your character dies, the torchbearer gets "promoted" to PC.

How about sus troglodytes for orcs? Seeing as they're porcine, cavedwelling humanoids.

Keeping them innplay certainly doesn't either. [emoji2369]

Simple: retire the adventurers as guildmasters/businessmen and create new characters that run quests for them. It's the natural order of things, after all.

Honestly? Not much, I think. At least nothing that would find widespread appeal. But I'm fine with that. I have more systems I want to run that I find much more palatable these days. I'm just not WotC's target audience (anymore) For me to re-embrace official D&D, they'd have to "power down" the...

Those born between 75 and 85 are known as "Xennials". The "Oregon Trail" generation. Analog childhood, digital adolescence. A lot of us started with the Revised 2nd Edition, or the Rules Cyclopedia I guess.

So?

Because they are. Spell-slots ammunition, and per-day abilities are a ressource that you spend to deal damage, and hitpoints are a ressource that you spend to soak up damage. Going into a fight with one (or both) low is a bad idea. And deciding what is considered "too low" and what is a "still...

It's not about "saving a silver or two". If you carry a torch in your off-hand, you're not carrying a shield, using a 2h weapon, or casting a spell with somatic components. And if you need to do that, it means you have to drop the torch, which has a chance of going out in the process, and if...

The "RPG" in CRPGs like Diablo is misleading. I'd qualify Diablo as an isometric 3rd-person shooter with a fantasy setting, nothing more.

How so? Never been in a pitch-black dungeon?

One could argue that D&D is whatever game WotC slaps that name on, so.... But "new and improved" is often just a bland marketing term and I'm wary of it.

I think the management of spells, HPs, ammunition, food, light (torches), time(!), coin, and other consumables (item charges, potions, scrolls, and attunememt slots) has always been an integral part of D&D, and should remain so. The emphasis on it has somewhat shifted away over the last couple...