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Why does it have to be a long campaign? I would simply run some 1/2/3-shots and see if the system/s you want to check out clicks with you and your group. Pick up a starter kit/fastplay with some pre-gens and have at it. Many are free and/or minimally priced or have a SRD.

Not sure where you got this, but I'm already seeing plenty wrong with it.

I said the same thing a few years ago. I even posted a thread here that saw a lot of traffic and necro posts about why I should bother. Finally buying the game and running it have just about been the most fun RPG experiences I have had in the past 10 years.

Bump POTVQ is now available print and pdf.

CoC (Chaosium) WEG (1E for me) SW FFG SW Victory's James Bond Marvel (1984) Stormbringer/ELRIC! I think most of the MERP lore/adventure material was on point and really, really well done. Rules... are debatable.

So I went over on Paizo.com to see what they had for a decent small-ish PF2 adventure to give the game a playtest over the holidays. In the "old days" of PF1E over on Paizo's store page - there were hundreds of third party adventures for sale. I bought a bunch. Now for PF2E I see nothing but...

Ok, well to do it properly it first needs some new novels and a set of railroady adventures based on them. Just kidding. I'm not sure what could get me to buy into DL...?? IME the best product ever produced was the 5th Age/Saga edition's Bestiary (best MM, ever). I read up on the lore of the...

Ok. "sole" focus was probably too strong of a wording, but it emphasized combat significantly more than previous editions and the modules reinforced this emphasis, mostly being a string of combat encounters. The rulebooks went through the basics of combat and powers before ever getting to...

Presentation- period- was 4e's downfall, It was never presented well at all. In the way they split the info up, the aesthetic, the marketing, and most importantly, it's presentation as combat as sole focus in rulebooks and adventures. This was an issue for core and Essentials, I'm with you...

Not sure I would consider Tyranny as a classic D&D experience at all- And the DL adventures were extremely polarizing BITD-Railroady adventures based on popular books are not a good design principle for TTRPG play- But you could try: Into the Borderlands Isle of Dread And the new Expedition to...

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This is a great point. And one I agree with. Since I don't run "Jedi Games" I don't need (or want) anything from F&D. I can get by with AoR and EotE for everything I would ever want to do in a Star Wars game. And I can use that money from F&D to pick up some adventure resources/supplements...

Nice overview as always. My guess is the two Dave's are likely Tramp and Sutherland- both Staff artists at the time, Tramp was staying above the Dungeon Hobby Shop in the old TSR building/House around this time according to Tim. But you could ask Jim if he recalls (maybe he will read this)

"be guided by any small south coast English fishing town of the 14th Century and with population about 2000" I have run it many times, but always improv-ed the council and town. I generally used a figure of about 300 in town, and roughly twice that on the outlying farms bringing goods to the...

FFG-hands down Also enjoy WhiteStar Star Worlds-Mos Eisley Playset (Dungeon World hack) WEG 1st edition I never allow Jedi as I'm one of those crotchety old bass-turds that would prefer to deny anything was filmed/ written post -OT (Return is under heavy scrutiny as well) In fact my next run...

I think every edition/variation has some great art, some bad art. Much of it is well executed, but stylistically the art in newer editions bothers me to no end- I'd rather purchase B&W books sans art for that very reason. It's hard for me to get into a game where I cannot stand looking at the...

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Find a 3.5 SRD site and check out the players always roll section from UA or 13th Age also does basically the same thing as 4E-everything has 3 defenses- AC, Mental Defense, and Physical Defense. pool three of the appropriate related attribute mods, and then use the one that falls in the middle...

On any given day, my best changes... I think systems like CoC, RQ, and Traveller deserve massive credit. They have stood the test of time since the Hobby's inception and remain mostly unchanged from their original releases in today's versions. FFG's Star Wars is a masterpiece with it's dice...

Special Snowflake answer- Blackmoor Gonzo? Sure Barrier Peaks? Sure. EPT? Sure Starport? (13A)? Sure, Arduin? Much of it is pushing too far for my tastes. Which has always made it a Love/Hate affair for me. I think encountering the Gonzo in the typical D&D world as unique/isolated/rare...