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Jeebus. One of the most purely good-news stories I can think of in quite some time, and the very first comment is someone trying to claim it's actually all doom-and-gloom.

This is the first of these Survivor threads I've noticed that I can actually see the point of. You can only run so many adventures and so this is a thought process someone might actually have a practical reason to go through. Eliminating (for example) all but one class from a game designed to...

I haven't read nearly all 26 pages of replies, so maybe this point has already been made, but why assume it's a question of time, rather than, say, effort, or how different magical energies interact, or which things it is and isn't physically possible to do simultaneously? If this is a major...

An important point most of the replies seem to have overlooked, or perhaps in a few cases might be consciously ignoring. So you could maybe do something like: Rahasia Night's Dark Terror Desert of Desolation trilogy original Drow trilogy Labyrinth of Madness And have it more or less work...

So far most people are comparing the two "main" ones that are designed to give a mainstream D&D experience. Anyone in a position to say how the Stranger Things one compares? That was also passingly mentioned in the OP. (There's actually a fourth one, as someone also mentioned. However, I don't...

To just answer the question in the thread title, around the beginning of the pandemic I started running Zeitgeist online under 4E. This is the reason for my recent return to being semi-active here, hardly a regular but I'm back to making more than just three comments a year or so. We're maybe a...

Intellectually I understand that this is the case, but I can never really grok why. Subtracting a negative number is literally just addition. If anything it's easier than subtracting a positive number!

It's accurate. Holmes basic is vastly different from B/X and BECMI. As someone else pointed out above, this was particularly true with respect to alignment, of which Holmes had five in a system that was never used in any other version of D&D. You'd be on much firmer ground with just B/X, but...

I know I've been saying that since shortly after it came out, and I don't intend it as a joke. Though some people do find the observation amusing. (Especially when someone initially misses the point, and asks "what's the first?", eliciting the answer "that varies, but the second is nearly always...

"Still"? AD&D 1st Edition predates BECMI, as others have already gone over in more detail. This particular compilation came out about the same time 2nd Edition started, but even the original boxed sets it compiled were from several years after the three core AD&D1 books. The later ones were...

I'm Canadian, so they're using "math" correctly but "colour" incorrectly as far as I'm concerned...

I'm surprised to see people talking about arcane spell failure as something they actually experienced regularly. My experience was mostly that a spell failure chance was read as "don't wear this type of armour". It's not like arcane casters didn't have other ways to raise their AC, or otherwise...

Sorry, what is "HoML"?

Yeah, I bounced right off the way it's organized, or rather isn't.

3.5phb was published july 2, 2000, 3.5 dmg was published july 1, 2003 You're comparing the 3.0 PH to the 3.5 DMG there. In 3.0 I can't actually find release dates for the other two core books but they were definitely all out by the end of 2000. In 3.5 all three core books were released on the...

Hasbro's whole business strategy is holding onto any IP with a shred of potential. They're quite willing to let stuff go dormant for decades at a time and then bring it back out for a new generation. If they'd been around in 800 BC they'd still own the Iliad. For that reason alone, I wouldn't...

In addition to Tormyr's points, there's some changes to how magic works. In particular, there's no sustained magical flight, and partly because of this, no airships as of the start of the campaign. There certainly are similarities, but there's enough differences that you'd have to change a lot...

I'd love it if it was, but I'd bet heavily against it. After what was said on the previous page about Pathfinder, I have to imagine the market for 4E is even smaller. And of course, this gets announced the week after my group finishes adventure 1... is there a timeline on getting the other...

I killed her off 15 minutes into the first session, as the first known victim of the Ragesian bombing. Enough of my PCs had personal connections to the Resistance that her story role wasn't missed at all, and in any case that ends about halfway through the third adventure.

As I went on to say in the rest of the same post...