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Literally only 3.0 and 3.5. B/X went up to 14, BECMI went up 36, and AD&D went up as far as anyone wanted to take it, as long as you were human and not a monk. Late AD&D did "epic" stuff starting as early as 9th level, but only really ramped it up in Dark Sun with the Dragon Kings supplement.

For all of its myriad faults in its game design and cultural sensitivity, Oriental Adventures was an essential part of AD&D and should have been considered a core rulebook. The classes and monsters and proficiency rules-- admittedly, the races were weak and "honor" is little better than...

The first claim is pretty subjective, but I'll stand by it. Just look at the new classes in Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, then pop over to d20PFSRD.com and look at some of the third-party classes or class archetypes and imagine them simplified and available right next to them. It's a...

Point blank, the best sources for practically limitless content-- any kind of content-- for specific OSR games isn't the OSR itself, it's the third-party ecosystems for PF1 and 5e. It just takes more effort to translate and implement than the pure stuff. Of course, a lot of the best OSR stuff...

"We file the reports." Pike knows Chapel and M'Benga are lying, but he can't prove it-- and isn't sure he wants to prove it, for the reasons I've proposed. How we can tell that Star Trek is a utopia is that it matters that they lied about it, and that it matters that Pike can't prove it.

Oh yeah? Name an admiral from the entire run of TNG that wasn't at least as corrupt as this. The utopia of Star Trek is that a man like M'Benga is not the hero for his actions and that a man like Pike has to put Doing the Right Thing above his career or his personal loyalties. Star Trek isn't a...

There would not have been a formal court martial in any event. Their "peace ambassador" being stabbed to death with his own weapon in a Starfleet sickbay would look like a love tap compared to the black eye M'Benga's court martial would give them. Paperclipping the Butcher of J'Gal is only the...

The fact that M'Benga got away with "murder" is the point. There's no question that the courts would be on his side if Starfleet pressed the matter; there's no doubt they wouldn't be if they knew the whole truth. That allows us to ask the question of if they should be. And I am of two minds...

Yes, there is definitely extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe. It is possible they've visited Earth or contacted humanity previously, but I find it incredibly unlikely that any human was made aware of this contact without making every human aware of this contact.

M'Benga never says the ambassador started the fight. Only that he didn't.

I was already working on it... my Shroompunk setting, my life's work, is an infinite number of anachronistic magitech sword & sorcery Worlds-- both single biome and complex-- connected by a sprawling network of living, evolving megadungeons. Every few years, connections to 2-3 Worlds...

Kachil'kcha eyed the other cutters warily. "I am not summoning you, no," she crooned; her telepathic 'voice' was warm and soothing, in contrast to the razored edges of her chitin. "I think also you are not summoning me, yes? Summoned here together, we are, yes?" "Is being job interview, yes?"...

To start with, it's just B/X, in a single convenient boxed set (or hardback) organized to make it easy to read and absorb and easy to read at the table. It has top notch production values, but it focuses on substance (and readability) over style. It is, essentially, as good as "D&D as a toolbox"...

I am a bit of a weird outlier in the whole OSR movement, because while I cut my teeth on "early Eighties D&D" (in the early Nineties) I didn't learn anything like the grim-and-gritty dungeoncrawling style of the modern OSR. Our adventures were full of barbarians and monks with psionic wild...

Hit Points: 33 Armor Class: 16 (natural armor 13 + DEX) Size: Medium Speed: 30 feet All of my weapons are +6 to hit, 1d6+3 damage or 1d6 damage off-hand.

There is no simple and easy way to do it. Look at the 10 official hybrid classes Paizo published, or any of the third-party hybrid classes that have been published-- Purple Duck has done some stellar work-- and they're not just adding up all the class features together and then subtracting them...

Do you want to play in this guy's next disaster campaign? Because if you don't, you have no reason to give a damn why he thinks you quit this one. People who make mistakes like this aren't capable of learning from them, because people who can learn from their mistakes don't make mistakes like this.

The first main problem is that in a system of exponential growth, you're trading the highest-level features of one class for the lowest-level features of one or more other classes. This is most notable with spellcasters and, in 5e, the difference between high-level spells and low-level spells...

I'm a big proponent of the concept of multiclassing, but I think the pick-a-class method in 3e and 5e is-- speaking admittedly from hindsight-- fatally flawed and unsalvageable. We're not going to come up with a more functional method as long as we keep holding on to the things that make it...

I am inordinately fond of Psychic and Spiritual Handbook from DMs Guild. Far as I know, everything WOTC has published has been in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, including the Telekinetic feat.