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Fate Core says hi.

I'm currently playing in a 4E game, so yes.

Favorite Class: Fighter, particularly in 2nd Edition AD&D(didn't play earlier than that). Because 2E was house-ruled out the wazoo anyway in my group, the fighter class was really only limited by my imagination because it was the least codified class. I got a lot of mileage out of the "called...

That's pretty much what Castles & Crusades is, though with somewhat more advanced class features(e.g. the fighter gets extra attacks against 1HD creatures, bringing a vague equivalent to minion rules) and the SIEGE engine for attribute checks(primary attributes have a base difficulty of 12 and...

Ability scores aside, I actually prefer Mouse Guard's conflict resolution rules when it comes to social conflict. Basically, you and the DM secretly write down 3 consecutive strategies(Mouse Guard uses Attack, Defend, Feint and Maneuver) and then compare and role play the results. I'm not sure...

If it's any consolation, your desire to house rule 2nd edition isn't a product of your modern game design sensibilities. Heavily house ruled games were pretty much the default state of AD&D in my experience. One game you might want to try out is Castles & Crusades. It's like AD&D filtered...

The thing about Harpers(as presented in 2nd Edition) is that they aren't really a collective group at all. From Code of the Harpers: With such lack of organization or clearly defined methods of operation, it would be pretty much impossible to restrict alignment. That said, it's fairly...

Maybe I just define "swing" differently, so I'll use a different word to avoid confusion. I like multiple dice systems because the results are less random. More easily predicted. That means that the dice matter less, and the numbers on your character sheet(and any circumstantial bonus you...

Apologies for my lack of specificity. I was referring to the first part of your post where you said that adding dice reduced swing. I never meant to imply that rolling 20 dice would be something I'd want to see in a game I'm playing. Heck, FATE manages with 4 dice, and the example I gave used...

Of course this might be a desirable result. It depends on whether you want more emphasis on chance or character skill. Personally, I prefer the latter, which is why I've been sort of growing away from D&D and other d20 games. Another alternative that can keep the number of dice down is to...

I haven't been able to fully grok narrative systems like FATE so far(I own Spirit of the Century, Kerberos Club and Strands of FATE), but I definitely steal some of the ideas for house ruling. For instance, I really want to do away with HP system in favor of Stress and Consequence, and I think...

I think I actually like #2 specifically because some of the ability scores do have multiple contexts that might not all apply to the same characters in all circumstances. For instance, with the proposed division, you can have a distinction between agility(save), precision(attack) and manual...

True, but the reverse applies as well. If you can't put out content for a popular setting of equal quality to what was released for previous editions, don't expect long time fans of that setting to keep buying your stuff. I stuck with 3E in part because the FR supplements were at least...

I don't know about the rules, but I have started recollecting 2E Forgotten Realms books, as nothing after it really compares content-wise.

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire AD&D 2E Core Rules reprints Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms

Not anymore. I used to adore 2E AD&D, but in retrospect, that was largely due to having an excellent gaming group at the time(and have never found one to match it). Now I still like some aspects of it, but find it to be rather clunky overall. 3E I only got into because I moved, my old 2E...

The best thing about that statement? It can't be proven to be false. It's also well known that playing tabletop roleplaying games puts your immortal soul at risk. It's not true, but it is well known... by morons.

I'm... conflicted. On the one hand, I like that they are undoing the lion's share of the 4E changes, which collectively were the straw that broke the Scars Unseen's D&D buying back. On the other hand, what I really wanted was for it to never have happened at all. A retcon. I guess...

Yeah, sorry about that. That comment wasn't truly aimed at you, but there have been a number of people(not necessarily in this thread, or only directed at this game) that seem to take umbrage whenever RPG designers intend for players to buy more than just one book ever.

In the context of an encounter, what mechanical difference does there need to be? What are the primary differences between an encounter with a human and one with a Wookie? The Wookie is bigger, stronger, and if you can't understand Shyriiwook, you aren't likely to have a meaningful...