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Yeah I have a PC called Markus from when I was 13. I played with a friend and we did adventures (played Return to the barrier Peaks) and took on a demon lord each weekend. In the end I had whole pages of magic items, artifacts and sci fi gadgets. Was it was a little bit Monty Haul? No it was a...

'Letting players run the story' is important to me. RPGs are at their best when players are given responsibility to push the story forward. It is a rare DM that sets up a world, characters and challenges and give latitude to the characters to mess it all up!

Dinosaur!

I like this idea, it would also make characters more customized without feeling that they are missing out in terms of some sense of the overall powercurve, etc. But I think there would be need to be a wider range of feats to cover the full spectrum of possible archetypes.

Its a nice tactical option with the risks you note. I have only used it when I or another party member can interpose themselves to try to hit the opponents as well - that is the heroic part of the spell that I like. I think they got the balance between HW and cure wounds right.

I think that is A4, the last of A series. I remember playing it back in the day, it was very hard.

I would like to see more magic items but also rules for masterwork items. I need something for my character to spend his gold on!

I play with feats in a by the book (published) campaign. I play with newish players who do not optimize and we are not pushed to a set amount of encounters per long rest. But I can t help feel that there may be an issue within the encounter within these parameters. The thing I think makes 5e...

Our cleric is basically a short Thor because he is a Dwarven tempest cleric. He leaves a lot healing to the wimpy bard because he is too busy zapping enemies. I think the carry over of healing surges/hit dice from 4e has meant the cleric can be a great many things other than a healer. Which is...

Yes, but I also remember someone on these forums who served in the US armed services who recounting a story of sleeping 300 yards away from an active howitzer battery. Fortunately I dont have any personal experience of this, but it expanded my notion of what people actually do in the real world...

Isnt there a danger of imposing modern standards of what makes good long rest here? Most of history people have slept pretty rough/eaten little from time to time but still had to get up and face quite physical and violent activities.

From what I can remember the alternative skill system looked really different from previous editions and interesting, but I really did like way the early DND Next system gave all fighters maneuvers and martial dice as a core feature of the class. I think this appeared to give the class a...

Agree with this line. I think weapon choice should matter far more than the dice you roll, but the system has to be smart where it puts any complexity. So I dont understand putting too much complexity into weapon design when it should IMO be an power/option for PCs or a trait for monsters/NPCs...

But there less free time and all games have to make things easier than back in the day. I went through that very same process, but I have never had as much free time as I did in my early teens. Now I only have time to work, work, prudently contemplate rpg things on the internet!

Another vote for generalised spell level/caster level/spell slot confusion. The other issue that slows down my table is confusion about the way some spells force saves, some you roll to hit and some use hp thresholds. I have found that players get slowed down by the inconsistency of the rules.

We use fantasy grounds even when we are face to face, so we are 100% on the grid. The interface of FG bugs the hell out of me, but the maps are good.

I get this sentiment but there is the issue that it makes sense for magic to have some system or logic. I think other RPGs often have magic systems that seem less haphazard than D&D because they follow a spell list type of system. In D&D you can learn to cast metor swarm without learning...

36 years here since I started with the Moldvay basic set and have since played all the editions since. Like others in this thread, I have a learnt a lot through this game, made great friends and made some very lame characters over the years. It is a long time but I dont feel like a Grognard, as...

Isnt the idea of discreet spell lists right out of the Rolemaster RPG? I have no idea whether that game still played these days but it was popular in 80s. I like it as an idea but I would have see how it is implemented.