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Basic: Level advancement that wasn't just based on combat. I realize the systeme was more specific than that, XP for treasure and all, but I think the real value is just conceptually decoupling (or pre-coupling?) level advancement from beating up monsters. 2e: Kits. While clunky in application...

In my campaigns I keep magic items, especially magic weapons, extremely rare, to the tune of there being only one of any named weapon - it's not a flame tongue, it's the Flame Tongue. Like many here have said, there's never such a thing as "just" a +1 sword. I also like to just play ball with...

As someone gearing up to launch their first Kickstarter campaign, I'm seriously worried. I have manufacturing quotes (just books, as in a softcover saddle stitch module, thankfully) that the whole thing is built around and I worry those quotes won't still be good by the time I actually need to...

Drawing off a couple of upstream ideas: it would be cool to have the capital city be expansive in height/depth, not necessarily in width, allowing for many different types of creatures to thrive in it. That plus the "lifeshaping" idea someone tossed out presents a very cool visual in my mind at...

I've never understood an adversarial mindset in TTRPGs. I've played under DMs who ran things that way, but it was never really my thing. I've always been upfront about this, and luckily I've never in over 30 years had an issue with a player (in that regard anyway). I work with my groups to make...

DCC RPG Core Rulebook (Erol Otus cover, ofc) D&D Rules Cyclopedia Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperboria AD&D 2nd Edition Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme* DCC Tome of Adventure Vol 1-4 Box Set DCC #100: The Music of the...

I agree with you 100% here, though I think this outlook also illustrates one of the problems with the 5e subclass system. The proiblem is that the Sorcerer casts spells in a fundamentally different way than the Wizard, and the subclass-after-1st-level approach of the game can't really account...

One of the things that really puts me off about 5e is its subclass system, which I find straightjackets a lot of potential by putting up silos between different character concepts. I loved the 2nd Edition Wild Mage and I think that while it might make sense as a Sorcerer thing it also makes...

3rd Edition had the absolute best take on alignments, and I use it to this day. It straight up described the alignments as aspirational ("Remember that individuals vary from this norm, and that a given character may act more or less in accord with his or her alignment from day to day. Use these...

My weapon of chioce is Dungeon Carwl Classics, and it would handle this situation fine. The character on watch would make the occasional Luck check (rolling their Luck score or lower on a d20) to notice anyone coming by. Alternately, I might call for an Intelligence check (with probably a DC 10...

I'll be. The Blood Elves are one of the things I remember most clearly from way back then; I didn't even realize they weren't a playable option. My mistake!

I picked "some races" because I've run a handful of human-only campaigns.

Earthdawn my my introduction to TTRPGs back in like 1993, and I think it's awesome that you're doing this conversion. But I have to ask, how are you handling the Blood Elves?

There is a series of disease supplements available on DMs Guild called the Malady Codex. The disease sections are written by medical students. Here's a link to the first one; it's easy enough to find the others from there: The Malady Codex Full Disclosure: I contributed an adventure to The...

I love 2nd Edition. It's where I started and many of my best D&D memories come from playing that game. Like many others here, though, I eventually migrated to the Rules Cyclopedia for its simplicity, though now I play/run Dungeon Crawl Classics almost exclusively. Yeah. There are differences...

For me, the 2nd Edition Al-Qadim line did it, especially the City of Delights box and the Genies of the Lamp sourcebox. Karl Waller's interior art has just blown me away since I first saw it in high school.

Wizard dead; Purple Planet Awaits!

"Am I supporting a small-press creator making something cool for a great game?" If yes, the odds of me buying it go way up. I can point to a bookshelf full of 3rd Party DCC products to attest to this one. I'll also buy stuff if it looks interestiong to read or has compelling artwork; I a bunch...

Both. I have a weekly online game I run for my 11yo and his friends, who all live 3,00 miles away from me, a weekly game I run for the family members who can meet in my living room, and a weekly game I used to run at a FLGS but will soon be moving to a local goblin-themed coffee and chocolate...

Oh, certainly. And I'm not trying to defend cammers and con artists, either, of whom there are moee than a few. And there was a project I backed where the creator turned out to be an absolutely despicable excuse for a human being, some thing I wish I'd have known before giving them money. And...