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A lot of stuff in D&D is there because it was there when the game started. Also little folk are fun to play either for Hobbit fans or fans of the Gnomes book and TV series. Original AD&D gnomes were basically fae and could take illusionist as a class Of course as with everything D&D there...

Your interpretation would make for some good gaming. As I understand it the customary interpretation and note there are several as the meaning of Revelations is highly contested is meant to read "Death and Hell followed with him" meaning the pale horse appears ridden by Death and...

I have one world where basically everything you can think of is fair game and exists somewhere in small numbers. I have another that uses five only and another with only humans.

Too creepy for my taste but pretty darned good.

Sounds like a party that will give a hoot, or four. Or eight. Do rapiers hoot?

5E. Human Fighter Human Wizard Human Druid Human Rogue 0E 3 Fighters 1 Magic User 1E -2E Human Cleric Human Magic User Human Thief Human Fighter 3X Barbarian /Fighter Sorcerer Rogue Cleric

If you group is Evil and is OK with it make an event of it. Maybe they all want to be undead or something. Otherwise questing for potions of longevity and elixirs of youth are mystical, on brand and cool . Also making friends with a high level druid/druid circle is a possibility. This...

I always though it was a dumb and arbitrary rule myself and was glad it went away. Truth is a lot of older D&D rules are legacy cruft , for example thieves skills and especially armor and come from a time in which basically no one understood how armor worked or had every worn it. When D&D...

Nope and H, E, Double Hockey Sticks Nope. Its a terrible trade since even double damage will often fail to drop enemies and such a loss of HP means they can drop you easily.

I'm ambivalent about dice. I think they are quite important in more purist forms of D&D or similar games but otherwise I can take them or leave them. My favorite system. Cinematic Unisystem used in Ghost of Albion/Buffy and Angel requires no rolls from the GM and I'm quite fine with that...

Take TWF and use a pair of rapiers and you won't lose any damage. If generous your DM will let you reflavor them as something more like a Jian and let them do slashing damage. Given you don't really need as many ASI's as most do to your high stats you might go All Ranger and take Fighting...

Exactly. This is the right way to do this IMO as it allows cool and unique mixes that make games fun for player and GM alike, this from a DM who usually runs human only games BTW. Besides appearance has nothing to do with mechanical game balance at all. All that matters about looks is that...

I used to do this back in the 1E and 2E days when the group was small or we wanted a larger party. I haven't done it since 3X since characters are capable enough on their own and the game is meant to balance at 4 PC's anyway. Generally I have found that this type of play is not as good for...

GURPS at least gets regular support, a new thing a month and Pyramid now going 100% GURPS is getting a kickstarter. Now my very favorite system Unisystem (Buffy/Angel and All Flesh Must Be Eaten) which is set to have anew core book Beyond Human is still stuck in design hell where it has been for...

Your wish is my command. Now Its not official and its for original TFT so maybe only limited wish I guess. But still. https://tft.brainiac.com/TFT-Traveller.pdf

I agree though even Traveller these days has skill progression. In really long term games it does make some sense. If you have been a ships steward at Steward 0 for several years odds are you can get to Steward 1. Same with say practicing Revolver in your spare time for long periods,. I think...

I think you'll enjoy it. I've run GURPS Lite a few times. Players tend like it far better than GURPS All The Options at least in my experience. On account of real life not to mention 2020 I haven't sprung it on my players and to be honest I've be planning to get that big ole box set at some...

It would be closer to AD&D outselling 5E. The Fantasy Trip the last book really dates from 1983. Melee from 1979 IIRC GURPS , well Man to Man which is a slightly trimmed combat version would come out in 1985 soon after SJ found out he couldn't get TFT back from Metagaming for any...

I feel ya. My group abandoned the tender embraces of GURPS for Monster of the Week.

That boxed set raised a lot of money and its funding bled into 2019. TFT is also is well supported for such a new game and scratches a lot of itches being OSR, GURPS-like and simple enough in its rules for modern tastes , a bit more than say Tiny D6 but much less than D&D. As a GURPS guy its...