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Same here. Played since pre 1e days, switched to each new system at some point. Tried 4e. Disliked it a lot for various reasons and stayed with 3.5. And we'll give the 5e rules a look. Try 'em. If they don't work for us, we'll simply keep on with what we're doing.

Make it like 1e. Put it in the rules, but don't make it mandatory. Fighters for example, in 1e, could attract followers at 9th level if they built a castle/stronghold. Didnt have to. Could just go on adventuring as usual if they desired and not bother with clearing land, building castle...

Character death during character creation

Agree. I did like the weapon group feats from UA 3.x. Weapon Groups fix this (if all "long" swords are lumped into a Heavy Blades" category).

Yep. Agree. I voted bonus and penalty.

Yep. And dragonageoracle.com has a lot of hacks using the Age system. A Conan hack is there, as is one using Mystara. I believe on the GR forums there was talk of someone doing a Star Wars hack as well.

Pramas recently announced that GR is working on a game (non-DA) using the AGE system (engine powering the DARPG). So, while DA may end soon, I'd say theyre not quite done with the system itself.

Same here, so I voted 'who cares'. The text is just the text. I don't really care how they explain it.

Elves have fur? ;)

Welcome to the internet good sir :)

Campaign started in 1986 using AD&D 1e. Homebrew fantasy. Medium to high lethality influenced by Moorcock's Elric, Norton's Witch World, Tanith Lee, RE Howard's Conan, etc. Basically the grim/gritty, dark fantasy, magic is evil, let's summon demons, type stuff. Never was really over the top...

Could definitely do it without called shots. Just set hp = Con score. Done. It never increases unless your Con score does. (Similar to various games, Elric maybe, based on RQ where hp = avg of Con + Siz.)

I don't agree with all your points, but I do agree with this. It's noble and nice to come out and say "D&D for all", but it will never happen. No way any edition or a combo of all editions will please everyone. That goal, while admirable, is not possible. (No matter what the product is.) I do...

You'd have enough nickels to buy another end table? ;)

Actually- you could probably cut down the page count for skills. Depends on how detailed you wanted them to be. Dragon Age for example just basically gives a general overview of what each one (called Focuses, not skills in the DA RPG). Open the skill section with rules on skills and how they...

Yep. Sorry about derailing the thread. My fault. So- back to the subject at hand, I don't know about completely removing BAB (or whatever) for wizards, but I'm for definitely slowing it down and widening the gap between it and fighters/martial characters.

You're right about the polymorph self. Forgot about that. I don't recall the aging cost in 1e for resurrection (may be there; i just dont remember it). I was thinking it was the cleric couldnt cast spells for 1 day per level of the person restored to life.

I'd like to see it go back to the original concept as well. If it means designed through skills/feats/themes/whatever, that works. Stand-alone class works too.

And part of the imbalance with wizards in 3.x came about because they removed the checks and balances put in place in 1e/2e for spells/magic. (Things like aging when casting or receiving certain spells, the inability to cast spells for a day or whatever after casting resurrection [IIRC], the...

128 pages. See AD&D PHB 1e for inspiration.