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It would launch through Kickstarter of course. Per the current Kickstarter boardgame trends there would be a zillion dodads (figures, dungeon tiles, dice) as add ons and stretch goals. As a consequence of this gameplay would be centered around using figures on a gird, similar to the 3E and 4E...

I give out xp for making discoveries rather than just for exploration. Things like finding a hidden passage, figuring out how the magic contraption works, deciphering the hieroglyphics, etc. I think this encourages PCs to interact with the environment, where xp for exploration just encourages...

'Cause that's what made sense to Gary Gygax on the day he wrote the rule. Having a single unifying concept or system wasn't really his thing. You might as well ask why do some of the Thief's abilities work a on a % chance, some x times out of 6, and the fighter's attacks off of a d20 roll.

I'm not sure it is all that complicated. I think you could just go with something along the lines of: With the DM's permission you can forgo all of language, tool, weapon, and armor proficiencies granted by your race or subrace and choose one of the following: Dwarf culture: Dwarvish...

#1 Agree. There are no facing rules in 5E. Otherwise it would be trivially easy in most fights to get advantage by running behind the other guy. #2 RAW that's technically correct. RAI I think blindsight is be equivalent to actual sight here. If the plant or whatever can sense you well enough...

That's true. I vaguely recall Monte mentioned at some point that Malhavoc was a chaotic evil wizard, but I don't know if he ever gave any more details than that.

If your objective is emulating the feel of the old editions, I'd think you'd want to emulate the clunky parts too. Honestly, a big part of "TSR era D&D" was looking up numbers on a chart. Obviously, one tweak is not going to ruin the experience but is still moving it a step away from how...

There is a very impressive fan conversion of Star Wars to the D&D 5E rules online here.

The foundation of the game is 1E although there are a number of changes, such as the way full attacks work. From what I saw of 2E they really went in a completely different direction. If you are familiar with PF1 you can pick up 98% of SF very quickly; the last 2% is a bunch of tiny changes...

Paizo has a bunch of these - lots are pretty specific but you should find some fairly generic ones too. (Just remember if you are using a Pathfinder map ever other diagonal counts as 10' ;).)

I think it makes sense. In 1E both cover and concealment provided penalties to hit rolls although concealment provided a smaller penalty than the equivalent amount of cover. So you could say that three-quarters concealment gives a +2 AC bonus (same as half cover) and total concealment gives a...

Sure elves are basically humans with pointy ears and dwarves are basically stocky humans with beards - but in my experience cat people are basically furry humans who hate dogs, and dragonborn are scaly humans who breathe fire, etc. Playing a character that is 98% human isn't an inherently more...

Personally, FG is my go to with the caveat that it is more complex so it requires more time investment to get it to work optimally. I can't tell you how many times I said "I wish FG did X" or "there should be an easier way to do this in FG" only to find out weeks later that it DID I just hadn't...

Rotflol. That's like the pot calling the kettle Drizzt Do'urden.

With the possible exception of thieves' tools I see tool proficiencies as something that helps define your character, rather than something that makes your character more powerful. If a player wanted to be a alchemist/brewer/blacksmith/carpenter/cartographer/ cook/glassblower/etc. I think it's...

Wizards has said that three classic settings are getting active attention in this stream so I think there is reason to be optimistic at least some of the old settings will see the light of day. Personally, I would love to see some of the old settings revived. Not for me - I can convert my old...

Well at the very least using a shield occupies a hand, so there is a pretty obvious trade-off. You can't dual wield, swing a greataxe, shoot a bow, climb a rope, etc. Some characters that could use a shield choose not to. Unless a system uses hit locations there is usually no reason to know...

Somewhere between a 2 and a 3. I'm definitely a "let the dice fall where they may" kind of guy. That said I'm fine with the DM dropping a hint if the PCs are about to get in over their heads. Dying because you pushed a bit too far and wandered into the boss fight with half HP and no spells...

Time travel is inherently paradoxical. it is also totally fictional so you can make up whatever "temporal physics" you want without anyone telling you "that's not how time travel works." If you go with the Marty McFly approach, then your time traveler fades out of existence once he changes...

I really love campaigns like the old "Shackled City" AP where the PCs slowly learn about the the evil master plan, bit by bit, over the course of the adventures and I think this idea has great potential for that. Obviously lots of ways to run with this idea but off the top of my head it could...