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I would agree, but published adventures can be very helpful for getting the feel of how a rule system works in play before you actually dive into your own adventure design. I am not opposed to published adventures; and I do still buy some. Just not from Wizards. I'd prefer spending a few...

I don't really understand how something like Dungeons and Dragons is a viable business model, honestly. I bought a few rulebooks from Wizards, but I can't think of any reason to ever give them any more money. I've got what I need to create, I don't need a load of irrelevant guff on top of that...

I think these kind of systems can be helpful. But the GM should be the one tracking the points. And they shouldn't be telling the players anything about it.

I find the choice of options on the poll hilarious. "Do you read books very quickly, extremely quickly, absurdly quickly, or instantaneously?" Usually takes me weeks to finish a book. Main exceptions are when I have something like an intercontinental flight with its associated hours of...

See post 276! It is a Warhammer thing as well though. Using magic is exposing yourself to the corrupting powers of Chaos, and always runs the risk of being transformed into a Chaos Spawn or pulled from the mortal sphere by some angry daemon. As it should be.

I'm rather find of systems that embrace the Linear Fighter / Quadratic Wizard concept, but with the extreme power of higher magics imposing serious costs on the wizards, as exemplified by Doug Kovac's famous illustration of a magic user's progress through levels in the DCC rulebook:

I feel that no one in this thread has asked the key question: do you like the player?

Party stumbles across an assassination of a notable merchant. Hired to investigate and get involved in some conflict between merchant houses, but that's all a red herring! He was really assassinated by the Ancient Order of Ominous Nefariousness due to his dabblings in nefarious ominousity.

This sounds like the kind of idea I would love in principle but never remember to keep track of in practice. Like most of my failed houserules.

Not sure why this should be seen as a problem. All the issues you mention exist with the AC system; they're not new problems created by counting armour's effect only in the damage phase. I don't get how you find it less realistic. Chainmail is equally effective against all attacks in both...

Alluded to earlier in the thread, but one thing that bugs me is Armour Class, as a concept. I grew up playing Warhammer, and only came to D&D as an adult. It took me a while to acclimatise to the nonsensical abstraction of AC. The Warhammer approach (copied over into WFRP) makes much more...

How about going full on Hackmaster? Attack rolls (ranged or melee), depend on your Dexterity and your Intelligence - it's all about how quick and agile you are and how intelligently you place the hit. And there are no fixed Armour Classes - an attack roll is opposed to a defense roll, which...

Yes, it merged B2 and N1 together with T1: Village of Hommlet. There was a lot going on in and around that village.

A sense of reward, the same thing they're going for with points or this 'achievement unlocked' nonsense in video games. I give out XP for accomplishing objectives and doing good deeds, with bonuses for clever solutions. The players seem quite happy when it's time to dish out the points, and...

No, it's simple in practice too. Since that's what I do. It's not simple for the GM, since I have to keep track of how much XP each character gets; but the players just get their number (along with the explanation of what it's for - that bit's important so they know how to earn it). But to each...

How is it? "The session is over. Add this number I am telling you to your current XP number." Not sure if you've handled XP in some other way, but this can only be described as a negligible amount of extra bookkeeping.

I am baffled how levels can be so popular when XP are not? What's the point of levels if you don't earn your XP?

Create Food and Water. It's like the designers thought 'hmmm, we've done all we can to trivialise resource management and ensure that the rules mitigate against the possibility of starving to death or dying of thirst being a challenge, but a crafty GM could still engineer a scenario where it...

Of course, you may have played some of the classics without knowing it, unless your DMs were all careful to announce 'I ran out of ideas this week so just grabbed a dungeon from White Dwarf and changed the names'.

Isle of Dread and Against the Cult of Chaos were both released as part of the playtest for 5e, so the conversion is mostly done already.