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Just so I understand - Goal and Approach: Does this mean you ask the player what their goal is and how they approach a situation before you ask for a check? Then you frame the check within those parameters? I do something similar in my games. I consider it a tool to use. I don't use it...

In my Basic Fantasy game, if the total modifiers from their 3d6 in order roll turns out net negative, they can re-roll their stats. But in Basic, ability scores are less important. Their impact on a character's effectiveness is very compartmentalized. You don't really need high abilities to be...

Lol. In the older editions, higher stats usually meant greater false sense of security. Its the overconfident high stat characters that bite it first. In B/X, your abilities mean much less to your character's capability. The game was less based on stat based rolls and more on how you play. And...

This is pretty cool. I like it. Seems like it splits the difference very nicely. I may use this for new characters. Thanks for linking!

I've done 4d6 drop lowest in order for my 5E game. I like the idea of discovering the character through what the dice give as opposed to designing from a concept. Sometimes you end up with Charismatic or Intelligent Fighters, or Wizards that were track stars in Magic School. To me it creates...

Agreed. I'm kind of shocked with the original quote you quoted. I have never met a player who thought that it is appropriate to force a roll to get a 20 and force the DM to submit to what they want. I find that absolutely ridiculous. I've seen a lot of D&D memes about ridiculous things happening...

I use a wet erase battle-mat. I will draw out rooms as they explore in 10' square scale (which helps the mapper out). I bought a big pack of Arcknight plastic miniatures. When a player joins my game, I'll let them pick an appropriate plastic mini and I let them just keep it. They're pretty...

A brand new player to D&D joined my regular game. He created a 1st level Gnome Barbarian. First encounter, he charged into a crypt without first search and without the back up from the rest of the party. Got surprised and poisoned to death by Giant Centipedes. Two hits, two failed saves... 2d4 +...

Yes that is a great track record. I've run D&D for tons of new players. Maybe about less than a third of them continued in the hobby. Many played once and gave it up. Nothing you can do about that. If you bring in some new players and some join on and it becomes a thing for them, you have done...

If my character should have been one shot killed because of what happened in the game, but the DM fudged and rolled back on it, I would find that not fun. If my character deserves to die then it should die. To me, this sort of thing tells me that my choices and actions don't have any meaning in...

I actually don't know AD&D all that well. I played it but never really ran it. I know B/X much better. I think in B/X it was: 1HD: Skeletons, 2HD: Zombies, Ghouls*, Shadows** 3HD: Wights*** 4HD: Wraiths*** 6HD: Spectres*** 7HD+: Vampires*** * Ghouls had claw/claw/bite + paralysis which made...

Yeah me too. A general trend in 5E monster design (probably applies to 3E and 4E as well) is the reduction of asymmetric monsters. Monsters with immunities, or special attacks or special requirements existed to provide an alternative approach. Some monsters can't be assaulted directly and need...

Exactly. This is how I would design an orc lair. Say it is a lair of 30 orcs with 2 sub-chiefs and a war chief, along with a shaman (eye of gruumsh) maybe some dire wolf pets. I would calculate the XP value of the entire group of inhabitants. I’d maybe convert some of it to art objects or...

I wanted to share a fantastic document on old school style gaming. I link to it as a crash course for my public old school games. https://lithyscaphe.blogspot.com/p/principia-apocrypha.html?m=1 This document does a great job of explaining what I LOVE about old school D&D.

Caveat I haven’t run it, but i’Ve heard a lot of good things about Hot Springs Island. http://shop.swordfishislands.com/the-dark-of-hot-springs-island/ its system neutral, but I think there is a 5E adaptation already out there (5e stats for monster and such)

Cool. Again I apologize for my part. We differ but I don’t mean to show a disrespect. I should do better to, in general, be less trigger happy to people with different views.

You responded before I decided to pull back from this. I think I flat out have a completely different outlook towards the game than you. But that’s ok. I don’t see any need to derail the thread about it.

I apologize. I’m taking this off topic. So, I’m going to back out of this.

As someone who ran 4e for over 6 years, i’m actually glad that 5E is what it is. 5E is a very accessible. (All my 4e players felt they had to scour the books and spreadsheet their characters to optimize them... in 5E that’s not necessary). if you want the tactical richness of 4e, you are...

This doesn’t bother me. The rules usually include a caveat that you can only ever gain one level of experience for a given session. So a lot of that XP will be wasted. if a party manages to overcome an ancient dragon, they would deserve to gain a level. However, the treasure tables in 5E...