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One of the most notable things for me in returning to basic dnd via OSE was how much more impactful--and fun--loot and other randomness are in changing characters over leveling. This included things like the goblins in Winter's Daughter giving characters mushrooms that changed their skin to...

On balance I like colville’s channel, but I’ve found him noticeably slow to acknowledge or show any interest in games beyond a limited, dnd-centric sphere. He barely even acknowledges pathfinder or the osr, even when it would make sense to (he once ascribed the idea of “rulings not rules” to 4e...

Yes, I generally agree. If you look at the HP values for the "Ogre" in this post, they are 19, 30, and 59 (for b/x, shadowdark, and 5e respectively). My only claim here is that 19, 30, and 59 are, in fact, different numbers. Hot take! I did not expect that pointing out that different numbers...

That's basically Mausritter in a nutshell! It's all very cute and funny being a little mouse adventurer...until the game starts and you realize you are just a helpless mouse wielding a needle and a little button shield if you're lucky

Continuing with Mausritter This is a den of a powerful fox druid-sorceress type, named Meadhbh. From this den she casts spells and sees into the future and past. However, her spells require the fresh blood of pure-of-heart mice! She uses not pure-of-heart mice cultist followers to lure and...

Upthread you seemed to take exception at @kenada making assumptions about your playing experience, yet you are doing essentially the same thing here. You are also not reading my above posts very carefully, because I explicitly say that converting things is not very hard, not a big deal, and...

I agree, was just responding to this specific claim. By the standards of "pick some numbers and go," it's fully compatible with 5e too, as is just about every dnd-derived game or module. It doesn't gain us anything in the abstract. But let's say I have the 5e players handbook. Should I buy...

Sure - if you run B2, you just have to look up the equivalent monsters in the shadowdark rulebook. If there is a monster not in the shadowdark rulebook, you have to spend a few minutes in your prep making a conversion, adjusting AC and HP and so forth. It's the same if you were running B2 in...

You're really good at drawing top down objects, like the bed with the pillows. If I tried to do that it would just look like a bunch of rectancles

Unfortunately it's not really "compatible" with either. I was curious about this claim so I took a look at the monsters in the quickstart compared to b/x monsters. HP in shadowdark are much lower than 5e obviously, but not as low as b/x. AC values for the same monsters differ by as much as 3...

The Planescape box sets (Planes of Law, etc) were beautiful, but there was a lot of empty space in them. I think they typically had 3 staplebound books and several poster maps of the planes. The poster maps were visually interesting...but not exactly 'useful' in a traditional way, given that...

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I thought this was an interesting tweet. She doesn't elaborate, but I'd be curious about what aspects of the system intersect with b/x specifically

Race-as-class is a sticking point for a lot of people, certainly. I think the reason it was done is that the Basic sets were aimed at children, and it's more simple to just have all your information in one place. Certainly I've found this to be the case running Old School Essentials, where...

Oh, this makes more sense! Holmes was closer to OD&D. And it was a fan project: I do like the Holmes alignment chart:

Yeah it's in the quickstart EDIT: nm, thought it was but I must have also seen it on twitter