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That is, your white d20s have to look like pearl onions after a few years of use. Mine do.

Just bring back the full-page cover of the original boxed set. When Knighthawks came out they began printing the original set with that horrid purple border and clipped the Elmore cover to fit. Lame layout. The original was what got me to dump DnD until 3e - no kidding. I can thank Star...

Thanks for the reminder!

Looking at the age breakdown, I now have to fully accept that I am an ancient grognard. This brings with it certain implied advantages and cachet, but it also makes clear my age. Oh boy.

I would love to see an adventure set in Eberron. I don't care about any of the other settings at all.

Isn't that Krunk the Barbarian's girlfriend? She has a very "Fear of Girls" production vibe.

Agreed. 5e works for a lot of things, but not all. Give us some of that SF feeling, please.

So true!

This is all very good advice - I hope it gets out there to people so that those considering running games can read it. I'll add one thing, as a subset of 'Know The Basics:" make a rules cheatsheet. One page, with summaries of the most essential rules as related to the story you are going to...

Supers games with random power generation...funny stuff. I had a rolled up a Villains & Vigilantes character once that had two powers: control of fire and control of water....my first thought was "Boiling Water Man."

"...a mess" - that's concise and accurate. That said, I switched to PFRP in the 80s for the same reasons you cited: it was different and offered some rules and story elements that were refreshing. I was a teenager then and didn't think much about whether rules made sense or not, or how well they...

Palladium's core system is a bit of a mess; however, in the FRP the Warlock and Diabolist classes are fascinating takes on magic. The former is a wielder of elemental magic, drawing spells from one or two of the four elements, while the latter wields magic through knowledge and use of runes - a...

They were not a part of the playtest, unfortunately. However, they're based on the same core mechanic, and so I can't imagine that they'd be difficult to understand and implement. The playtest left out that and mass combat.

This is a good overview of how the system works. I play their versions of Star Trek and Conan, and was a play tester for Dune and Achtung! Cthulhu - I love 2d20; it's a great, flexible system. https://that70sgame.wordpress.com/2021/04/07/2d20-mod-part-2-basic-rules/

GOOD. I am glad to see forward progress. Never been; not a fan of big crowds but would still like to go one day...maybe. Which means it needs to get back on the horse. Good for them, and the community at large.

Momentum generated from a task roll is either spent by the player who took the lead in that task (or was the only one rolling), banked (to a max of six in the pool) in the party pool, or lost to the ages.

2d20's core mechanic is stat + skill, roll low, with a twist. Stats are usually high single or low double-digit numbers, and skills are always single digit, yielding a Target Number of somewhere between 8ish and the low teens. Let's say your Insight (a stat) and Observation (a skill in AC) added...

DO IT...give in to the urge to spend.

Well said. I had to play it (Conan Free RPG Day scenario) before it all clicked. This guy does a nice job of breaking down the core mechanic (and other parts in other posts). I've been thinking of starting a gaming podcast and have recorded some draft episodes in which I explain the core...

I think you'll enjoy the QS, and the PG and GM's Guide are, from what I've seen, great. I am a big fan of 2d20, and I think this might be the best interpretation of the system yet, especially when it comes to magic. It balances nicely between the more fluffy Star Trek Adventures and the...