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Oh no! Another wyvern attack alternatively: Revived the bard, wizard died

Solid advice, I don't want introduce them to TTRPGs with a TPK.

One thing that supports your argument: where I live there is a cohesive group of torture victims survivors and families of survivors. We left a ditactorship that went from the 60s to the 80s and left thousands of victims of torture, and many missing and dead people. Torture is a very sensitive...

That's a bit less cool, and slightly more confusing.

Basic (81) edition even had a section saying somewhat like "yes, we use the word level for half a dozen unrelated things, but worry not, you'll get used to that". That being said, I love the change to spell circles. I adopted it since the Portuguese 5e translation came out using "circulo de...

My girlfriend wants me to help her introduce her friends to TTRPGs, and I agreed running an one-shot. She tasked me with some very specific requests: She wants me to run D&D (any edition) or some adjacent fantasy game (like OSR games and Pathfinder). The players expressed they want to have...

I like these! They are very flavorful. I would just change the wording on Spell Emulation to "within the next hour" or "within the next 10 minutes" so it works better outside combat encounters.

I agree to disagree. When I'm playing Vampire: The Masquerade, I structure the story around intrigue and politics. When playing Call of Cthulhu, I structure it around mysteries and paranormal investigation. Isn't it reasonable to structure Dungeons & Dragons stories around dungeons? Every game...

IMO the (short) answer to that problem is more dungeons. Once you leave the dungeon to take a long rest, the dungeon won't be waiting for you passively. Its residents are now alert they are being invaded and muster defenses, set new traps or even hunt you outside the dungeon. Thus, once you...

This! Also, you can stock your dungeon with one treasure hoard of the appropriate tier for each adventuring day worth of XP, and by doing that the number of adventuring days from level 1 to 20 alings perfectly with the number of expected treasure hoards.

FR wiki have an explanation at Dagult's page. I didn't check their source, but it makes sense.

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Maybe OSRIC? It does a good job making the AD&D rules understandable for newcomers, and it's easier to reference. And if you think AD&D books (1e or 2e) are good as they are, you can get print-on-demand of both editions at DriveThruRPG.

I'm a SF fan and I heard a lot about Traveller, but I still don't know how the game plays. What are the game loops? What kind of characters you can create? What kind of adventures and stories should I expect? What do I spend most of my time doing in a game session? If you think Traveller is a...

I use feet, miles and pounds even if I don't know exactly what they mean. I know inches are very small, 1ft is about the size of a 30 cm ruler, a mile is more than a kilometre and 10 pounds is the average weight of a cat, and that's all I need to know. It's like B/X, that used "coins" as a...

Rolling with the OD&D idea of prime requisites and the four classes, I would keep Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom and Dexterity with the Fighter, the Magic-User, the Cleric and the Thief respectively, and create a new class for Charisma. Since Charisma governs your ability to amass followers on...

This is big news! A BX / 1e SRD would be the best-case scenario for the OSR scene that relies on hacking the 3rd edition SRD. Do you know where he said that?

They are saying "previous editions" instead of "previous SRDs". Am I reading too much, or is it possible that 4e and/or AD&D will be added to Creative Commons?

Short, older style adventure for 5e? I strongly recommend Winter's Daughter.

I like 5e how it is, maybe I borrow some rules, but I think it's unlikely I'll ever switch entirely to One D&D if it goes the way it's going. Not because it's bad, but because it's unexciting. It's just 5e but more unfamiliar and not really better.