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Most recently, I had run it often at my FLGS for D&D Encounters. That was a very different experience than in a home game. 1) The sessions were designed to be short with one combat encounter and maybe one trap, puzzle, social situation. The home experience of running for 4 hours was exhausting...

After being a 4E apologist for the last 10 years, I ran a 9 month campaign which ended last fall. The result: all my 4e books have been removed from my shelves and put into boxes, ready to go into storage. (For those keeping score, I have no other gaming books in storage.) Moreover, I disliked...

Yes. I was flipping through my copies this afternoon actually. It's missing customization like specialty priests and wizards, skills. Also has the problem of "too weak" - low hit dice for characters, no spells for starting clerics. It's not really any different from other B/X clones. Mostly...

What I want... Compatibility with older TSR adventures and settings Customization for players - variety of spells, classes, equipment, ancestries Non "bloated" numbers (limited HP, damage scaling, etc) - primarily for the purposes of compatibility with older TSR material Not too weak...

I wonder how much the deep discounts on Amazon affected the widespread adoption of 5e? I wouldn't have bought 3 PHBs at full MSRP from a LGS.

I like having more humanoid statblocks. So the change works for me

I've run both. Barakus is mostly a dungeon crawl (but it's a good one). There's a lot more opportunities for social scenes in Freeport.

Would it be worth playing Jaws of the Lion as a Starter Set before jumping into Frosthaven? Or would the mechanics be so different as to confuse players when we go to the full game?

I was recently given Frosthaven by a friend who said it was "just taking up space." The guy knew my group loved tactical combat like in 4E D&D and suggested we'd enjoy it. This was a very generous gift. But I must admit, I'm completely overwhelmed. Even the "getting started" tutorial video on...

This is the best kind of thread necro. Thanks for the positive update.

Spending Luck gives players more control over their success. The added HP hasn't really affected my character, who rolled so badly he has 15 HP even with the Pulp help. But it's the Luck mechanic, recovering sanity, and more action driven themes that makes it the best for me.

We're playing 7e with the optional mechanics from Pulp Cthulhu added for more action and increased survivability. It's been my favorite way to play CoC since I started in the early 90s.

For my preference, there's too many combats that are also too long in standard PF AP modules. I'd prune them down to something like a 32 page adventure of 3rd edition and prior.

My (limited) experience with Savage points to a system that doesn't base challenge on a gauntlet of encounters that deplete your resources throughout an adventuring day, like D&D and Pathfinder. It's a very swingy system where a hero can drop to a lucky strike from a mook. It just seems...

In the day, we got around these limitations by just "jumping ahead" to play the adventures we wanted. So if we finished an adventure at 3rd level, why not just boost it to 4th to play the next adventure? It's a much more episodic experience but it allows you to hit the high notes.

Maybe? I'm thinking that no one in my town is playing TTRPGs. For example, our social media pages looking for gamers haven't had a post in over a year. If it's the golden age of RPGs, I'm not seeing it here.

I only buy half-priced used books from them. It does stink to not be able to browse books. And we don't have bookstores locally either, unfortunately.

It was odd. I asked an employee and they said they were ordering them only on request. I guess enough of the D&D inventory has been sitting around that they didn't want to get stuck with more books. The place puts all their books in shrink wrap anyway - so I couldn't do a flip through even if...

My LGS isn't even carrying the 5.5 books. I can't look through them even if I wanted to.

I have been going off the second hand accounts because I don't follow the original channel. (I'm not a Magic player.) Thanks for more information. I won't spread misinformation further. Edit: thanks @TheSword for additional details.