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"Hey boss, this supplement for MÖRK BORG got sent to us by mistake. Should I forward it on?" "Nah, let's just print it"

Heavens, yes. I also started back in 1e, but now can't stand a lot of the mechanics of that era. I'm sometimes nostalgic for the feel of the D&D of my youth, but I'm never nostalgic for the rules. Ah, I remember back in my Boy Scout days, when my Scoutmaster used to say: "Son, the woods are...

What engine is this, using my likeness without my permission?

Point taken, but I think Monster Overhaul counts as systemless. It works with AD&D, Basic, and any of the dozens of clones thereof. It works with 3e, 5e, Shadowdark, and DCC. I suspect it would be useful for Dungeon World and Pathfinder, although I can't vouch for either. Even if you're playing...

How have we made it this far without anyone mentioning The Monster Overhaul? It might not exactly be systemless, since it's for D&D, and especially early editions of D&D. But it's the best monster book ever written, and it's massively useful for any fantasy adventure game, even those (like 5e)...

I use meeples or chess pieces for my monster minis. They cost almost nothing and they're actually better: you can more easily tell the monsters from the PCs, and different monsters from each other.

This is indeed perhaps the very best thing about Shadowdark. By way of contrast, look at 1e or Basic and notice how incredibly bad first level thieves are at thievery. They have an astonishingly low chance of succeeding at doing anything related to their profession. Like, a 15% chance of...

Shadowdark mini be like:

You guys bring up a good point: I sound evaluate how hard the combat is by more than one metric.

In fairness, Shadowdark hooked up with me, which only a brain-damaged woman would do.

Yeah, I have a lot of WizKids minis, and these look pretty okay to me. Except Shadowdark, who looks like she got repeatedly dropped on her head as a baby.

This is great! Unfortunately the links on the pages you mentioned no longer work, and I can't find the rules anywhere. Too bad, because this looks very cool.

I checked this out and it's great stuff. I am planning to have my PCs on attack rather than defense, so I'll need to think about how I might be able to adapt the ideas in that chapter. But this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks much for the tip!

Ah yes. Like all female adventurers of that era, she seemingly multiclassed into stripper.

That is awesome. How have I been playing for 40 years and I've never seen this in a game?

Seconded. There have been plenty of times I was not an ideal player or DM and hsd no awareness of that in the moment.

I don't know much about it, although I'm told it's mightier than Swordragon.

Yes. They'll fly onto an enemy tower and fight their way down. They don't know exactly what it will entail (actually, at this point, neither do I!) but they'll be clear that they will be fighting several waves in succession as they try to descend the tower and the enemies try to stop them.