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Yes. Not my personal cup of tea. Aside from the fact that it's just a poor fit for my play-style, the bounded accuracy is a bit too bounded for my tastes, and combats above 3rd–4th level are too slow and predictable to keep me engaged. I completely forgot about Agasint the Darkmaster! I've...

One amendment. 1. Jonathan Archer, captain of the NX-01 Enterprise 2. Ed Mercer, captain of the USS Orville 3. All the rest :geek:

When I became sick of D&D circa most of 2013, I tried a number of systems for dungeon fantasy: FATE didn't work at all; Savage Worlds and Victoriana fared no better. Risus held up for two or three sessions at most, while Barbarians of Lemuria could sustain a campaign that lasted maybe triple...

Rolling low to hit, save, or succeed.

I would say, even if the elves (or dwarves or orcs) all share a common plane of origin and have simply migrated to Oerth and Abeir-Toril and Mystara, they've all likely been separated for sufficiently many centuries or millennia for significant linguistic drift to have rendered one Elvish...

You've got 'em on your list. The '77 Basic Set and the '91 D&D Game. At least in the area where I grew up (the Midwest around the Great Lakes), it was typical to distinguish all of those sets from Advanced D&D by referring to them as "Original D&D" (preceded by a box color if you needed to...

Well it's hardly all-or-nothing, don't you think? Most people, I should imagine, like to apportion the strength of their opinions to the strength of the evidence in their favor. What are we even doing here, if not delving into the reasons why we believe what we do? If, on the other hand, you're...

Okay, this is good, I'm hearing you more clearly now. Side 1: I'm the Authority over my game-world when I'm the DM, but if you like to distribute authority among all players present, that's cool too. Side 2: DMs being the sole Authority over their game/setting is a problem. Fair? And if yes, why?

So you have a preference. Cool, me too. What evidence do you have that the default "the DM gets to decide" is something to be concerned about? (And, heck, just for the sake of good-faith argument, let's go ahead and assume competent, non-Viking-Hat, non-antagonistic DMs all around, regardless...

To which I can only respond: what evidence do you have that "more content" or "new content" (in terms of races/species/monsters in the game-world) makes for a better game/experience? What evidence do you have that Side B makes for a better game/experience than Side A? To me, it all seems too...

Well it's not a secret or anything. The point is, my own bias aside, one side in this argument is open-minded about a variety of campaign styles being valid, and the other side is attacking one specific style. (Even if the OP tried to frame it as an anodyne, "Consider the following…") I am...

And yet… same as last time, the two entrenched positions on this thread can be summarized as, "I curate, but if you don't, that's totally cool," and "Your curating offends me, on behalf of your oppressed players."

Very interesting subject! How am I a D&D outlier? Uff da, let me count the ways… 1. My go-to edition is OD&D (by which I mean the white box, blue box, red box, and black box* editions; they're all coequal in my eyes and not different enough from each other for me to go about drawing pedantic...

In a setting where arcane magic explicitly doesn't exist but psionic power does, you can use whatever mechanics you please—including reskinned Vancian magic, which works just fine. If both need to coexist, I personally prefer that the mechanics be distinct in some way—at least as distinct as 3rd...

Levels are pretty important. In my experience, you can remove a lot of surprising elements from the game — the d20, the ability scores, character classes, demihumans, magic, hokey medievalism — and D&D will still feel like D&D. Levels are not one of those things. Though I do think you need at...

6th and 7th printings (the ones that say "Original Collector's Edition" on the cover) were indeed sold in shrink-wrap according to The Acaeum. (My own set is a 6th printing, and beat all to hell, but I wouldn't have it any other way—because I quite like not being horrified at the thought of...

Who needs prefabricated settings? Give me toolboxes for building worlds and filling out blank hex maps. Make my life easier the way Beyond the Wall and Worlds Without Number did. Then maybe WotC can have some of my money.

Delving Deeper is a mostly faithful clone of white box OD&D. S&W takes liberties, the most important few being the reduction of five saving throw categories to a single save number (that increments by +1 per level for, IIRC, all classes) and a total re-write of the treasure tables and allocation...

Holy schnikes. That's gonna be a "yikes on trikes" from me, pal.