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If you want PURE BX, you need the "Classic Fantasy Rules Tome" (or the "Classic Fantasy Game Set" If you want BX with some advanced options, you need the "Advanced Fantasy Player's Tome" AND "Advanced Fantasy Referee's Tome" (or the "Classic Fantasy Game Set" PLUS the "Advanced Expansion Set")...

It is not. Who would that be, anyway?

Having been to Normandy this summer I know the Normans at least are still mighty proud of him for teaching those Anglo-Danish ne'er-do-wells some proper culture. [emoji28]

I really couldn't agree more.

I agree. It's time for me to brush up on my knowledge of LotRO, which I played a lot after its initial release. Arthedain, Rhudaur, Cardolan, Eregion, Forochel, the Ered Luin, the Trollshaws, the Lone Lands... so many places that the online game added small enclaves of civilization (good or...

The Forgotten Realms can't hold a candle to Hârnworld, sorry. The amount of minutiae is simply staggering.

The Number One reason why Basic D&D (actually BX's excellent clone OSE) is my favourite version is the fact that it fromt-loads most classes. You get your class-abilities at 1st level and from then on, you "merely" get better as you progress. It nips in the bud what I despise most in modern...

In that case I wholeheartedly recommend MYTHRAS! It's basically RQ with everything relating to Glorantha excised. It has a few great Mythic Earth settings (Mythic Britain, Mythic Constantinople, Mythic Rome, Mythic Babylon) and works well with Mongoose's "Legend" series too (Vikings of Legend...

What about the Primeval Thule setting?

Certainly you mean "Elephant in the TOWER" ?

I'd like to nominate Hyperborea 3E: https://www.hyperborea.tv/

I wasn't aware that expression was considered a "dog whistle" !? Who is it supposed to "alert"? The intention on my behalf was merely to point out that life—real or fantasy—is inherently not fair, and that the sanest approach was to acknowledge that.

How about we eliminate all racial ASI, everyone starts with 6x 11s and gets 8 points to freely assign at 1st level. That way, everybody's slightly above average in everything, with a few better stats but nothing overpowered. And then everybody gets a participation trophy.

That's the way I do it. I'm currently not running amy games due to family constraints, but once those are sorted, I'll approach my usual suspects (a FB group of local gamers, a lot of which I know well enoigh already) with a diverse selection of stuff I'd like to run (Dolmenwood hexcrawl using...

I don't care how big or small in scope a setting is, but what I can really do without is metaplot! Just give me a thorough description of the setting, with one fixed point in time, and then FREEZE IT. Like Hârnworld. Give me all the details you can up to a precise point in time and then never...

BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 4 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 6+1=7 Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 6-2=4

"When, for fear of offending, shocking, or displeasing, a society constrains itself to silence, it is a deadly poison for democracy." -Robert Badinter (French socialist politician) What I find funny about the whole discussion is that the word, "phylactery" is just Greek for "amulet". It's not...

Maybe check out Mythras.

You should roll the player's Stealth check yourself. Stealth is one of those skills where if the player rolls it, he sees the result and can easily extrapolate an success/failure by the result, and proactively adjust his behaviour. Which is bad, imho.

Don't forget the B/X Expert-Set, which he is also tesponsible for.