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We're playing in a couple different B/X games at the moment, and my players are finding Turn Undead to be gold. That being said, some ideas would be to possibly grab some of the low level spells, like Protection from Evil, Detect (magic, object), maybe Light (stationary) that can be held for...

Points buy for 5e 4d6 Drop the Lowest for 2e.

Pretty much my experience as well. If this doesn't include character Gen rules (ie if they haven't been changed at all from core 5e), then there is no reason for me to pick this up, and I love 'starter sets'.

I'm not a serious Greyhawk fan, but for me (who just started DMing a 2e campaign in Greyhawk), if they played up those elements in a new release, I wouldn't buy it or touch it with a ten foot pole, because I'm not interested in 5e anymore, its moved away from how I like to play in, and run my...

Highlighted the problem with how they explained (or didn't explain) their thinking. If the whole point of "encounters" is to drain resources, then having social encounters doesn't do that, unless for some reason the party is casting maybe one spell (Charm? Zone of Truth? Similar?), but how...

Significantly less WOTC stuff across the board, bordering on none, but I will pick up 3PP books and things that I find interesting, or fit a theme I'm looking for, etc. I'm also very unlikely to buy anything from their 5.5 release, unless they significantly shake things up, which I don't...

I think some examples are fine, but in this case I agree with @Oofta, there is no way to cover every eventuality that might come up in play. And if you’re really ‘respecting the fiction’, then you shouldn’t be rolling that much anyway. Player (thief): I want to climb the wall of the building...

Please share! (y) I tried to work with various hacks, changes, alt rules, optional rules from the DMG, and nothing really seemed to work well, and it was a huge pull, basically reworking the entire system. Now, don't get me wrong, I love 5e's "simplicity", and some of what they did, but it...

I'm sure many of you know this, but for some older editions, specifically 2e and earlier (I don't have a ton of experience in 3 or 4), magic items were what gave a class more definition and ability as the character leveled. The 2e Fighter, aside from weapon specialization, gets basically...

Medieval Geopolitics v Renaissance v Dragons? I like Vanilla Bean (Haagen Diaz), Vanilla (Breyer’s), and soft serve vanilla. They all taste different to me…

I'm running a campaign in Greyhawk after over a year running in FR. Its a breath of fresh air for us, where no one really knows as much about Greyhawk compared to FR (due to all the focus on FR, novels, etc.). Its also mostly a blank slate. I can run it straight from the original core box...

Isn't that what clerics were for? Get into that fight at first level, take a hit or two, get a cure light from the cleric. Job's a good'un. Our group is playing in a DnD Basic game right now, and we have yet to use a 5 minute work day, even though the Elf only has one spell, and we have no...

Mine wouldn't even give it a go. And in my game, there was a lot of cross country and ship based travel, so it wasn't like there wasn't a lot of downtime that could have counted (if I was going to go for pacing, rather than RAW). The problem in my game was the NOVA, and I couldn't get to 6-8...

My players had all kinds of problems with using the Gritty Rests for obvious reasons (to them). The next game I run, I'm going to modify it more like AiME 5e, where a long rest can only be taken in a "safe" place where you are not keeping watch and/or sleeping on the floor. So, an Inn, a...

I don't want to derail the thread, but for you and @doctorbadwolf and any others: Its not so much that the game "broke", per se (probably a bit overdramatic on my part). It was more a combination of multiple small things: 1) Pacing: I wasn't running a 6-8 encounter day, the party was able to...

In my group we have one player who always has to "beat" the system, or "win" DND. Always optimized, moans when he doesn't get the magic item, builds combos to avoid ever taking damage, tries to out damage everyone, complains when his HP rolls are low, etc. Its an attitude that exists, but in...

And good footwear... I do about 4.5 miles per day, which I do in about 90 minutes walking. But that is the rate of this north american unladen geek listening to a podcast. I could probably go faster, but it would probably vary if I had to walk a full 20 miles from one place to another (some...

When I recently started a Greyhawk campaign (actually 2: one in 2e, and one with Beyond the Wall, in two separate areas of Oerth), I wanted to basically do the same: rein in the hundreds of Greyhawk deities and have a tightened Pantheon. Once I started into it, I found it was a lot of work to...

One of the things that is never really clear, either in history or in RPG books, specifically around worldbuilding is: how far apart should someone travel and expect to run into a village or town? I've variously seen "within a days walk", but what would that mean for realistic worldbuilding...

For this, at least, I would suggest one of two options (or maybe 3?): 1) Have a very brief outline of your suggested/ideal Pantheon, that you don't have to flesh out at all if no one engages with religion. 2) If someone engages with religion, then collaborate with them around what their religion...