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I'm expecting it to be slightly more successful than the attempt to boycott Modern Warfare 2. But that's only because you don't need to buy the books to use the rules.

Mine were GURPS and WFRP. Which has given me a life-long amusement at anyone who claims that any edition of D&D has ever been remotely gritty.

Yeah, Dungeon World (and PbtA games in general) fit just outside my rules light definitions on just about all counts. But I'm well aware the lines are arbitrary and all the factors I've mentioned have been taken into account by Vincent Baker; he just added a touch more complexity (which isn't...

I do allow rules handouts - and character sheets. What I'm saying here is that the time spent physically finding the rules in the book weighs the game down in ways that don't apply if you can look at your character sheet or the common rules to find them in a second or two. Presentation matters.

They absolutely do. They bring the game to a screeching halt as you need to first find the relevant table and then find the place in the table. Tables are IMO the heaviest common mechanic out there; modifiers are just mental arithmetic. (Basically the only game grouping I'm aware of to use...

I tend to have the following rules of thumb for rules light: Never need to crack open the books during play even in the first sesion A full character can either be scrawled by a player with poor handwriting as on one side of an an index card or printed with all practical options available at...

AD&D 1e has literally 60 pages of spells. And spells are character options. By contrast a PbTA character sheet is two sides and contains all options for that class on every level up other than "pick an option from another class". Even by your own standards AD&D is not in the same room as rules...

See, this makes me sigh. Last night I was playing the actually rules light game Lasers and Feelings where the entire game's rules fit onto a single side of A4. Tomorrow night I will be running a game of Dread where the resolution mechanic is a Jenga tower. Those are rules light games. Tonight...

Whoever said that dungeon exploration needs to be rules light. AD&D 1e wasn't

This is the first time I've heard anyone say dungeon exploration in 1e can't be fun.

What does the cleric have? It's defined by Full casting off a custom list Turning undead And the latter isn't much more than a ribbon. The wizard is defined by A spellbook Breadth of arcane spells Ritual mastery And it's subclasses work against its breadth. It would be better as a sorcerer...

Nah. The wizard should become the bookish sorcerer subclass.

Easy. Dump the cleric. It has no significant thematic or mechanical identity. It's not the divinely empowered armoured warrior; that's the paladin. It's not the prophet chosen directly by their god; that's the warlock. It's not even the powerful channeler of divine power; that's the Divine Soul...

Part of the point of skill challenge is that you almost always have a limited resource; three failures (assuming you're not using the earliest iterations).

The Divine Soul is absolutely not strong as sorcerer subclasses go. Adding more items to the shop doesn't do much to help someone who has so little money they are starving and the pre-Tasha's sorcerer doesn't have enough known spells to cover its bases. A Divine Soul with 5.24 Sorcerer's spells...

Welcome to Cortex Plus?

Non-zero. Once it was what was signed up for with a good GM having made an amnesia pitch to start with. Another time it was the same Storyteller who saddled the party with one DMPC per player character. A third time it was a new DM who thought it was a really cool idea but got the point and...

Either we've been playing with different people or we've been playing with them differently. D&D does precisely nothing to encourage individual goals - and pre-authored stories (whether by the DM or by the adventure path) IME inhibit players having individual goals because that clashes with the...

When I started my current campaign, using what started life as my ten level 4e retroclone, I gave the players a choice of "party character sheet" to determine the campaign style. I presented them with three; the Stonetop based Settling On The Borderlands, the Pirate's Life, and the mercenary...

That's not all crafter gives though? I mean there's also Fast Crafting and three tool proficiencies.