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I just dropped the rules prior to "end of combat" into OpenOffice text at 10 point font. It's about five pages, no tables, no illustrations. I suppose a nice flowchart might make this look more simple, but GunFu is supposed to be lightning-fast, right? My concern is that it won't feel...

That's unfortunate. Or: spoken like a true crossbow(wo)man!

A demo adventure should touch on all the essentials. But learning a new setting, lore, and game can't be done quickly if it's very original. I've had the Numenera book for years now, and I still don't know the setting, lore and game 🤓 1 being most important . . . Archetypes, 1 Metaplots, 4...

Digressing a bit, but 6e imposes disadvantage on all prone attacks. Which is dumb for crossbows. What's also dumb is that the goblin attacking you with a spear while you're prone gets Advantage, but the goblin attacking with a glaive does not. I'll do that one better: loading costs a reaction.

What? Anyway, don't forget this one from the 2024 Free Rules: "The DM can also decide that circumstances grant Advantage or impose Disadvantage." Which implies that the entire Advantage list can be nullified by a DM-imposed Disadvantage.

That's what it does in 5e. But since this thread is in D&D general, we should probably disregard feats. You're very generous with turn duration!

Unless there's one of those weird, mid-edition errors going on, it looks to me like bows get 50% more range than crossbows. At low level, being farther away from the enemy can be a HUGE advantage (for survivability). Also, bows are much lighter than crossbows. But yes, the x-bows deal a...

Yeah, it sounds like way too much discussion. Unless your players are into that sort of thing. Just make everyone roll, and the highest roll goes first. Then you go around the table, in the direction chosen by the lowest roller.

That might have been a reference to the real world phenomenon of bars getting more interesting after each beer. Aw! You don't allow PCs that use magic, hoard gold, and kill on the daily? The OP observation on rule zero points to WotC suggesting there is one true way: the rule book's way. Can...

"Better" is subjective. How are you using it? Why doesn't the crossbow expert feat meet your needs?

Seconded, except light roasts are the IPAs of coffee.

Discursive RPGs are inherently a conversation. Computer RPGs, not so much. But yeah, discourse is better in person. Don't fret. Some a lot of people form their opinions from what others post online.

It works great in Modos RPG. I suppose D&D could benefit from it, too . . . except that D&D is built on an assumption that everyone gets one or more attack actions per round. Your PCs might get bored. And what if the attack that PCs anxiously anticipated for a round misses? I think you'd be...

And I'll grant an extra bonus action to consume it.

Here, too: https://5e.d20srd.org/

I like to set those expectations up with familiar concepts. So session zero provides relationships and watchmen provide the head bashing. See my theory on WotC breaking it so players can pay WotC to fix it.

That sounds like . . . Boeing. Which is an excellent example of inharmonious. My metric for harmony is generally if I can read through the whole rule book without throwing it across the room. I'll discuss the inharmonious aspects in my next post. Ga'mes Modular appeal to the GM's sense of...

You have to start by making a big deal of it at meetings. Get dramatic about how IMPOSSIBLY ANNOYING it is. Then subtly watch to see who gets the most enjoyment out of it. That person is your target.

Tell me about it. Yah, shoo-er. Paap comes in pints. But we take beer to the lake, not paap, and doont go throwin' no rocks in. You might wake the jaackelope, an' he scares the walleye. Might as well throw yourself in . . .

This is the most likely, given that "books" won't survive the Great Nerd Purge of 2025. I'd pay money to see this. Thanks for the inspiration hero point!