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Oh, totally agree.

I have Shadowdark and I’ve considered running it, but sell me on it vs 2e or houseruling 5e. How hard would it be to use existing 5e material with it? 3rd party classes, adventures, monsters, crafting systems, etc.

My first DM, Scott, was my Boy Scout troop leader. He ran AD&D 2e during lock-in trips. Though I never ran 2e and 3.0 was just landing in stores, I have a lot of nostalgia for 2e but can’t separate my mind’s eye of D&D from the Lockwood art style in 3e.

I would agree with your number 8 - I find myself wondering if it’s just that, or that the spells are so rote and boring now and mostly combat-oriented, or if it’s just nostalgia for how magic felt in pre-3e.

I ran it for two years before I realized it wasn’t for me, and our group felt the same.

Unfortunately when I ran it, my players coincidentally happened to make a beeline right for where I’d placed Strahd in the castle, so they didn’t even get to explore most of it!

I would imagine you only “have” to do all the monster math correctly if you have a pedantic player second-guessing it (though they shouldn’t really know the specific monster stats anyway), but I’d think for modern players coming from 5e as their first game, they wouldn’t know any better or...

Is it possible to simplify 3e/.5 to a point where it’s easily runnable? I know removing things likely wouldn’t go over well with the folks who love 3e, but if you just want to use it as a chassis…

Why would SD not be for a long campaign?

The Obstacle Course of Strahd

I suspect that it’s about WotC throwing away all “outdated” modes of play and primarily focusing on character development, instead of offering a true toolbox for a DM to use and play with, ala 2e or 3e. Variant rules! One could argue that 3e was all about character development, but it also...

I have the 5e version - just wondering if it’d be worth backporting to something like Swords & Wizardry, or Shadowdark I suppose if it’d be easier to be 5e-adjacent.

I’m thinking of running Ptolus for my next campaign, but I can’t make up my mind if I should hack 5e to bits or just run it in an OSR system. Has anyone here done that, and was it successful?

I’m not sure about either cover. The default one looks a bit oddly structured in the dragon placement, but the alt cover is like Lisa Frank meets D&D. I’m not sure which one I’d get.

Variant rules to support all previous styles of gameplay, but in 5e.

Are you a grognard if you first played AD&D 2e as a kid but when you went to the store you got D&D 3.0 not knowing it was different?

Did you use the fighter XP track from B/X? Just 1-10 or did you calculate it differently?

Makes sense they’d stop - it takes creative juice to make, and there’s none of that at Hasbro.

I’m inclined to think that 5e-only players may not even know a different type of gameplay aside from just rolling skills. Though, I can’t tell you how often one of my players always said when he walked into a space “I perceive the room”, hoping to just skip all of the description. One...