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Roughly same here. Started Ad&d in around ‘82, major metropolitan area, closest game store was “Compleat Strategist” with no play area. We didn’t know of any gaming community, I started a club in high school (immortalized in the Yearbook). We still play some 40 years later with the same core...

Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures - spells are safe (cast 1 spell/level), cantrips can be cast whenever based on attribute roll - failure means you choose between a bad thing happening, or not being able to cast the rest of the day; rituals - castings that take an hour per level of the...

Right, I get that, but to what end? Is the point to still be able to NOVA at the BBEG? Or to be able to make it further into the adventure that day? What is the design goal of that mechanism? The classic we came up against was the Warlock. 2 Spells, maximum level, recharge both on SR. If...

If I’m reading these correctly, the friction is between a game featuring “resource management/depletion” compared to one featuring “NOVA”. And I think, from a design perspective, you have to choose one or the other. If you want every fight to be a boss fight, then you’re working on a NOVA...

You haven’t had the joy to play with the table I’ve been with for the last 40 years. There was nothing passive aggressive about it. We have a player who makes no bones about his “job” being to find every loophole/advantage/ruling/build/whatever to “win” DnD, and haranguing the DM and being...

That seems to be a terrible way to do surveys and compare data. What if you didn’t do the surveys of the PHB for whatever reason? Missed them? Too long? Whatever? Then this new UA survey comes out, and you’re comparing apples to your lime survey from two years ago. The same people may or...

We had an eldritch knight in our HoDQ/SKT campaign played by a player who prefers simple straightforward builds in general. He played a Drow Eldritch Knight specialized/feats in crossbow (augmented by Artificier infusions), where, after awhile, he rarely, rarely missed multiple shots with his...

Old School Essentials has the Incandescent Grottoes which includes “Adventurers who delve within may discover odd mosses and fungi, a ruined temple complex, and the lair of a crystal-eating dream dragon.” Among other things. I remember part of Winter’d Daughter with a bag of various fungi that...

I played a F2/W14 in a HoDQ/STK campaign for around 2 real time years. Iirc, 114 Hp, high AC due to armor, and the action surge was great for that extra casting. I also made the mistake of doing Necromancer, but ended up just a straight Wizard for all intents and purposes. Was, for all...

I thought that was the assumption about how all the characters were to be treated by everything? I was cautiously following the changes that WOTC was putting forth, and was happy for some of what I was seeing, and became a little optimistic, since I had already dropped 5e to step back to older...

It must be something about the way my brain is wired (or my old age). I'm always on the lookout for mass battle games to add into my DnD (regardless of edition), and I have RC, and have read those rules, but they seemed (to me) to either be not intuitive, or overly complex. Maybe its me? None...

This. And I'll add that over the 40 years we've been playing as a group (with new players and old players), we like the asymmetrical core design of the game. If you're out travelling, then there are random encounters. Those can be anything from a herd animal to a dragon. Sucks if you're 1st...

These are the big ones for our group. We wanted 1) something simpler than 5e, 2) something where you didn't "pilot" your character sheet, worrying about what buttons to push for maximum efficiency, and looking for answers there; and 3) we wanted emergent character development and gameplay. We...

Except that the game has taken the Wizard, from being less useful at low levels until they get into their power groove (which one knew and accepted for playing a Wizard), and now made them ‘useful’ and ‘contributing’ out of the gate and into their power groove and beyond. While the fighter...

If this is the metered version of magic, holy moley, I can't imagine what it was like before.... I've switched over my OSE Advanced game to the spell mechanics found in Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures. Some classes have access to Cantrips, Spells, or Rituals, or some combination of those...

I'm not @Ath-kethin but we moved away from 5e, due to, among other things, the ease of magic, which included Cantrips as a major issue. The ability to always have substantial magic on hand, unlimited use, particularly when those are damaging cantrips (scaling), light related effects, etc...

Okay. Over 40 years, that's multiple tables/campaigns, with differing people at the table at different times as folks cycle in and out, in different venues. I'd count that as more than "1 group". I could also point to 3 other groups I know (my son is in/has been in/has run) that have gone...

Been playing since B/X and Ad&d with the same group of people, so over 40 years, and I've never played in a campaign where I got higher than 11th. And we've played a LOT of DnD. During the pandemic (in the last 3 years), playing online with the same group, we played a mashup of Tiamat/STK for...

I’ve learned over many, many (too many) years to keep things simple at the beginning. My current OSE campaign is in one small country in Greyhawk, and the party started smack in the middle of it, and will likely do a majority of their adventuring in and adjacent to that starting point. That...

The Animal Lord of Birds should have known to send a Catbird to deliver that message 😉 I love it when RP’ing lands well. 😁