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I agree with your position about them just designing the game they want to design. With re: to Sneak Attack, then just bake it into the Rogue's damage if that's the actual intent. "Rogues, when they attack in melee, roll additional damage dice on a successful hit." Done. None of this "Is...

I would recommend checking it out. The core OSE experience is a lot of fun, and clearly laid out. I'm using the Advanced OSE book in addition, and it adds in the Ad&d classes, and other odds and ends, but back-codes them to be more like Basic, and less like Ad&d 1/2. It certainly adds more...

I'm mostly struck by how hard they had to buff Vecna, and give him so many reactions and other abilities to counter PCs. It is frankly mind-boggling. (I get that as a lone BBEG, he normally loses out on action economy against 4 PCs). I also am on one hand enjoying reading through how...

I have an eye out for when Carcass Crawler #3 is available. I have #1 and have adopted some of that material into my game (thieves skills to d6, some of the classes). I'd like to see the weapons and armor, and qualities from #3. I also have the Dolmenwood materials (Patreon), which codifies...

Yup, we had taken to saying "Just roll, if you get around a 13 we'll add things up, if you roll below a 10, chances are you missed." It did speed things up some. LoL.

I've followed a lot of DungeonCraft because his approach (old school, flexible, faster moving, and that his 27 year old campaign is only at 6th level) aligns with how I've come full circle from starting in basic, playing every edition up until 5th, and have now moved back to and am enjoying...

Ooh, that’s interesting. So, for a differently jointed, fierce, nomadic people who hunt demons…some things off the top of my head (in no particular order) some sort of hunting/foraging ability (whether you wanted to limit it to a particular type of terrain or creature type, or have it be...

When I went back and looked at them again, they didn't do anything new or original, just basically broke their races down into what were clearly real-world analogues in many cases, some rather poorly (I don't think they hold up), and even some of the artwork of the mystical races looked and felt...

In this case, if you cast Wall of Fire to block a corridor, and set it up such that it does no damage to the enemy (or anyone) when it goes up, I'd allow it, and I think falls outside the "target" restriction. If the enemy then walks into it on their turn, or whatever, that doesn't matter...

Edit. Nevermind. After doing some more digging, my suggestion doesn't really help.

We played and rolled our hard clear plastic, crayoned numbered, hard edged dice so much that they became rounded. This manufactured roundedness was a sure sign of laziness :cool:, after our softer plastic boxed set dice (also crayoned) began to deteriorate. Now, when the swirly colors show...

I had to check, and it was 17 for my F2/Wizard (Necromancer) 14. And that went along with a 17 Dex and a 20 Int. We used 4d6 drop low/best of two columns, add in ASI's and Bob's your uncle.

Truenaming is an interesting concept, but it also appears to be somewhat limited in its application, and it raises tons of questions 'in world' about what it means. Who has a true name? Do they know it? Under what circumstances do they share it? Can it be forced? What kind of power does it...

Hmm...maybe...I don't know...scale back the HP bloat? Nah, that'd never work! 🤷‍♂️ Heavens knows Barbarians NEED 20d12 HP + CON; and Ancient dragons need 546 HP to be relevant! (I had to actually go back and check, silly me, I put 457. I was waaaaay off. o_O) I have no idea how ancient...

Sorry, Old School Essentials Advanced (Basic with separate class/race and ad&d classes, but "basic-ified"

I have not used Cleave or similar in my OSEA games, but am always looking for something to give fighters a little edge. I think a limited activation "extra" or carryover damage to adjacent targets might be good. I'm thinking of my last game where the PC (Pal4), his squire (Knight1), and two...

:LOL: I was showing that, contrary to common wisdom, it is possible to flee from combats, as long as the game/DM/players accommodate that, and that combat isn't a "once in, its do or die." But a lot of discussion about grittiness, deadliness of combat, healing, etc. here often talks about my...

I guess that's going to be a table by table thing. In the 5e game I ran, two characters got trapped in a tower, while two others got trapped outside the gatehouse (couldn't get into the tower due to the enemies). The two below were getting overwhelmed, the two on the tower decided to jump in...

I was also tinkering (i.e. using currently) in two games the idea of a shield being able to be "sundered", whereby it is destroyed, but ignores the damage done on that hit. So a shield bearer could use it for a big hit, or when they're down to a couple Hp, etc. The +2 would probably work since...

You'd think. But based on other threads, that exhaustion at 0 HP leads to the death spiral, to be avoided at all costs! What @James Gasik is saying, I think, is that modding 5e to be "what I want/what my table wants" isn't often as easy as a couple of toggles. IME, those toggles either...