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LOTFP has the quirk that only fighters improve in combat ability and uses D6 for thieves with their single skill, thievery. One of the best things about LOTFP is actually their supplemental material. Zak S. is a dirty word but he did a few products for them that have been pulled that are...

FFG wasn't much better.

I am human enough to admit when I am wrong. Thank you.

The free Gencon module is a 5e module back in 2022. It was an adventure for the then just having finished Kickstarter "The Dark Tower" and was originally written for DCC and then converted to 5e... it differs. There was a lot that does not make sense in the 5e version from the conversion process...

Yeah but it came out not long before 5e and is MUCH cooler than 3e. LOL

Your right, it isn't hard capped, my bad but extremely difficult and your example is a common error, adjustment for Dex is subtracted from the die roll. But that is an esoteric aspect that brings in the Weapon vs Armor tables. Even the example below would require the Weapon vs Armor table. DMG...

Not in 5e no. I even commented on the bounded accuracy. The creep was in 3.x to 4e and Pathfinder.

It took what was before a DM’s judgement as far as skills and codified a skill system into D&D whereas before it was generally taken for granted or a justify it etc. For 10 years, because AD&D was itself the direct extension of OD&D and its supplements, the game was played very differently and...

Yeah it actually is but go on

Core 2e? Fine. I don't really like them. They're incongruent with the established skill mechanic with the Thief and Assassin. In 2e they got so out of hand it was nuts. In 1e they changed the way the game played significantly. In OA they were wonderful but when imported to AD&D proper the sudden...

Some of these are 3.5 and 3e wasn't all that compatible with 3.5 when you looked at the math changes.

I prefer it. Why? It is a stronger bounded accuracy model than 5e. Each pip of the die is 5% and AC is capped on the low end at 10 and -10 as the best. Had 3.x or 5e simply gone with 10 being worst and 30 being the cap they would have retained that bounded accuracy and AC's wouldn't escalate...

3.5 WAS a shameless cash grab though. It was specifically released early, by a couple years, because Hasbro saw sales had slipped on 3e and rushed 3.5 to market.

DCC would require a LOT of conversion. It isn't OSR, just looks like it.

Were it for DCC I would consider it.

Yeah the crown jewel is that magic system!

Old comment but I find the higher the level the more fun we have because of not only the mercurial nature of magic but because the game changes at level 1 into a very different game. It fully embraces that Moorcock meets Anderson, meets Lieber, meets Vance vibe of early D&D. Anything goes...

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Planescape and the Marvel RPG books. I really like the Marvel books, I think it looks like a fun pick up game andis very easy to understand. The errata helps clear up some possible issues. Planescape I am still on the fence with.

Level limits etc were part of the game from the beginning. 2e lifted the cap and gave optional rules for lifting it higher. In actual play level limits felt like a non-issue as by the time those levels were reached it had been a LONG time or PCs were retiring in favor of new PCs. There wasn’t an...