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How wide a range is wide range of usage?

A frontier town called Threshold? Now where have I seen that before....? :unsure:

I realize that, but simply made the observation that 5b feels like good ol' BECMI/RC D&D right out of the box. Er... PDF

Using just 5e's Basic Rules makes for a game that feels very much like BECMI/RC D&D.

See also: Penny Arcade - Comic - Double-Booked

If only Wizards of the Coast put out a free PDF with the rules in it...:unsure:

Doesn't using the "Ready" action pretty much accomplish what Overwatch does..?

The beauty of the Known World/Mystara was that the Gazetteers were written with plot-hooks included, if the overall writing itself did not suggest where the PCs would fit/what they would be doing in any given country.

Arneson. Because co-creator. And Blackmoor

Wait, you mean Morrus Claus isn't going to deliver me that monster all wrapped up in a bow for Christmas??:cry:

A lot of times, I'll watch a stream to see how an unfamiliar system "plays."

Restrict Alternity to PL 3, and you've got your skill-based, low-magic system (unless you want to bolt on Beyond Science: A Guide to FX)

Not a fan of adding Dex bonus to damage.

Dragon Magazine #183, July 1992, Voyage of the Princess Ark Part 30

The only Sphere to which the Nucleus of the Spheres was linked was that of Energy, to counter a potential over abundance of Immortals in that Sphere throwing the rest out of balance. I found the notion of the altering the curse at the end of Wrath to be somewhat ham-fisted. The effect of it...

The original Glantri Gazetteer explains how the Nucleus of the Spheres was (further) modified ("cursed") by the Immortals to drain from the Sphere of Energy if enough Rad Force was consumed, as a check against too many mortals taking the Radiance-powered shortcut to Immortality in the Sphere of...

The "debilitated" wording is a holdover from the v1.1 Nausea Status Track. (Queasy/Sick/Nauseated/Debilitated) "Nauseated" had the PC spending one action vomiting, and "Debilitated" increased that to both actions. 1.2 pared the Status Tracks down to a smaller set of two-tiered conditions. So...

Radiation inflicts the "SICK" condition. (p. 174) Also listed on the "Environments" chart, p. 183

See also: the meat-grinder that is B5

Voted "Against the Cult of the Reptile God," mostly because the very solid meat and potatoes, "rescue the princess cleric, save the village" B11: King's Festival wasn't in the running.