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I've played around with converting AD&D over to something more modern. What I had looked a lot like what you are doing but I also redid all saving throws to ensure more balance between the classes especially at high levels. I also gave the thief the same attack table as the cleric and also...

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"Defined" or "Handled"? 1e AD&D has the least incoherent description of alignment, but its handling of alignment where everything is a hard punish soured people on it. I don't think there has been a perfect implementation of alignment, but I tend to favor 3e in almost all regards.

I mean, it wouldn't. I don't know of a game that can handle this well. Some of them foresee the problem and try to head it off at the pass, but there isn't a way to handle the actual situation well given the limitations of the GM as a simulator. I try to avoid these sorts of situations the...

@earthsea_wizard: Treating this like a single axis slider that just can be moved around and scaled is the mistake. Based on the descriptions that they give, my homebrew world is both high magic and low magic at the same time. I think the section just over simplifies the complex topics involved...

Played this campaign back in the 1990s. It becomes necessary to assume that the production of sailcloth warded from fire is profitable and major industry. I presume the existence of a low level (3rd level or below) 'Ward Against Elements' spell that targets objects, is permanent, and has costs...

The problem with my experience is in how it scans back through the context to find the relevant information. It seems to be optimized to reference the most recent plausible context out of the sea of past interactions using relatively simple pattern matching (take context from areas with...

Yes. The problem is current generation AI has no memory and the way it fakes memory is highly unreliable. So the problem with playing a game of any sort with a large language model whether it's chess or an RPG is that very quickly the AI loses track of the game state or even that it is a game...

That would also require that there is a regional common tongue or that at least one PC (presumably the one that is "the face") also has the role of translator. But this just further silos social encounters toward a single PC. My biggest problem is that NPCs that the party can't communicate...

I tried to get into a VTT but they all seemed overly complex with UI that seemed deliberately designed to make homebrew difficult. It was so much work trying to figure out how to use them that I considered for while that it might be easier to write my own. They seem designed mostly to provide...

I read this joke as mocking people who take guidelines as rules.

Definitely this could be a problem if you weren't careful as a DM. It is particularly a problem for DMs whose adventure/encounter design focuses entirely on humanoid enemies. Honestly, this could probably be a problem in 1e AD&D as well if you ran your games that way and you loaded NPCs down...

Well, that part of the system I didn't mind. First of all, it is necessary to balance magical item crafting. If all items are available to the player, there has to be a considerable cost to crafting the more desirable ones. And secondly, players in my experience love loot, and when dropping...

This is the only 5e product that I bought because it impressed me so much, and I'd really love a review of how it played.

This I'm not entirely certain about because I only once and for a short period have a player who played a crafter. Aside from some scroll creation, most of my players characters in the campaign I ran the longest didn't invest in item creation feats. But, I consider 3e item creation feats very...

Were the books bought and paid for? Sounds like they weren't. I personally have no problem with using a legal copy of a book to train an AI as the assumption that it's basically no different than a human reader. So long as you only store the book in a non-representative form, I'm OK with...

"Potential" is carrying a lot of weight in my statement, but as a concrete example of design the Tomb of Horrors has a door that can only be opened by a magic ring, and has a magic ring to find before that point, and there is a puzzle which is by far most easily solved if you have a True Seeing...

I'm told that it did, but that seems to be more of a function of high level play (13th level and up) and compensating for the increased gaps between poor saves and expected DC of saving throws. I never had that experience, both because I never ran a campaign that got to 13th level given the...

I always thought that was poor design. "Improved Trip" is a case in point where without it there was seldom a reason to try it and with it there was seldom a reason not to. The gap between utility and non-utility should ideally be smaller. However, the general idea here that feats don't...

In every version of D&D, it's the responsibility of the GM to ensure that the party has the potential to acquire the resources necessary to overcome the challenges he presents. If you don't do that, you are as bad as the Monte Haul GM who gives away many more resources than are necessary to...