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AD&D 1e has literally 60 pages of spells. And spells are character options. By contrast a PbTA character sheet is two sides and contains all options for that class on every level up other than "pick an option from another class". Even by your own standards AD&D is not in the same room as rules...

See, this makes me sigh. Last night I was playing the actually rules light game Lasers and Feelings where the entire game's rules fit onto a single side of A4. Tomorrow night I will be running a game of Dread where the resolution mechanic is a Jenga tower. Those are rules light games. Tonight...

Whoever said that dungeon exploration needs to be rules light. AD&D 1e wasn't

This is the first time I've heard anyone say dungeon exploration in 1e can't be fun.

What does the cleric have? It's defined by Full casting off a custom list Turning undead And the latter isn't much more than a ribbon. The wizard is defined by A spellbook Breadth of arcane spells Ritual mastery And it's subclasses work against its breadth. It would be better as a sorcerer...

Nah. The wizard should become the bookish sorcerer subclass.

Easy. Dump the cleric. It has no significant thematic or mechanical identity. It's not the divinely empowered armoured warrior; that's the paladin. It's not the prophet chosen directly by their god; that's the warlock. It's not even the powerful channeler of divine power; that's the Divine Soul...

Part of the point of skill challenge is that you almost always have a limited resource; three failures (assuming you're not using the earliest iterations).

The Divine Soul is absolutely not strong as sorcerer subclasses go. Adding more items to the shop doesn't do much to help someone who has so little money they are starving and the pre-Tasha's sorcerer doesn't have enough known spells to cover its bases. A Divine Soul with 5.24 Sorcerer's spells...

Welcome to Cortex Plus?

Non-zero. Once it was what was signed up for with a good GM having made an amnesia pitch to start with. Another time it was the same Storyteller who saddled the party with one DMPC per player character. A third time it was a new DM who thought it was a really cool idea but got the point and...

Either we've been playing with different people or we've been playing with them differently. D&D does precisely nothing to encourage individual goals - and pre-authored stories (whether by the DM or by the adventure path) IME inhibit players having individual goals because that clashes with the...

When I started my current campaign, using what started life as my ten level 4e retroclone, I gave the players a choice of "party character sheet" to determine the campaign style. I presented them with three; the Stonetop based Settling On The Borderlands, the Pirate's Life, and the mercenary...

That's not all crafter gives though? I mean there's also Fast Crafting and three tool proficiencies.

The blacksmith -> fighter is a trope. And given half of games end by level 5 being able to afford full plate more easily might be worth a point of AC in games at the right level.

The background feats aren't competing with 2014 Polearm Master and War Caster. They are competing with each other - and to me the early leaders are Tough, Alert, Magic Initiate, and Musician (Lucky took savage nerfs in reducing it to Advantage and Musician is the new Lucky). What made most of...

The problem with 4e and cloning isn't that you need to clone the game. It's that you need to clone the character builder. That's IMO the single hardest part of introducing players to 4e; getting them to make their characters, and it's a minor nightmare to get pre-Essentials characters out of new...

And large in particular is adventure breaking. Let's take a very simple adventure hook. The dwarves have hired you to clear the kobolds out of the mines. One of the problems the dwarves are having is that some of the tunnels are kobold sized (and the kobolds like it that way). So a medium...

They did. Which is why they made things fuzzy so things fail fuzzily rather than failing hard. And it was trying to be a people pleaser, doing something for everything and nothing amazingly. But they wanted to keep it as D&D Now this I can't agree with. Compare the 2014 PHB to the PHBs of any...

When you're psychic enough to be one of the X-men (in specific Psylocke) I'd say that's highly supernatural. Teleportation, Telepathy, Mind Blast, and invisibility for the Soulknife. Psi Warriors can set up forcefields and leap tall-ish buildings in a single bound. Some teleportation, including...