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I may be repeating others' responses but my own personal list: 1. You're 1st level and you're on a quest to defeat the evil overlord." You're too weak to do anything significant yet, so just faff around until you lose interest/forget the reason you're adventuring/the campaign fizzles out. 2...

There was also a much different approach to the game in the earlier days. At leas in my experience, players had binders of characters that they have played over the years. When they sit down for a module, they go through their characters and figure out what to play. I may pull out my 5th level...

Feats 10-2 = 8 Hitting Cover 5 More Difficult Magic Item Identification 6+1 = 7 Scroll Mishaps 15

You get a larger range of common results with 1d12+1d8 than you would with 2d10. 2d10 gives you a result of 11 as most common. D8+d12 give you 9,10,11,12,13 as equally most common.

I love Worlds Without Number. It gets the balance for spell casting right in my opinion. Spells are super powerful but very much limited (spellcasting is more limited in WWN than even in B/X or AD&D). Warrior types also get significant bumps in capability due to combat foci. However, there's...

I'm not banning combat spells. Fireball, magic missile and many others exist would still exist. It is just that cantrips are banned. There is no need to grant a spell caster more martial options as they are already quite powerful outside of combat. Although I would consider allowing a spell...

It is possible to want to have spell casting but just have be more limited and less of a focus of the game. If the tone of my campaign is to have weaker less ubiquitous and less easy magic then changes would need to be made. Of course, playing a different game also works and there are tons of...

I believe the focus of the thread is to present a set of rules to limit spell casting for a low magic style game and get criticism and advice on them. Its getting a little diluted by those who are rejecting the premise of the thread instead of responding to it.

My approach to limiting spell casters so far has been to implement one week long rests. I keep short rests at an hour which benefits the more martially inclined short rest classes. I also require a long rest only in a place of civilization with an allied faction. If you want to long rest and get...

I don't get the backlash. The specific goal is to limit spell casters in general and specifically for a low magic game. In that case: "Boo that sucks, I'm playing barbarian" is a desired outcome. But they will still have all their spell casting, just it is more onerous to use it in combat. D&D...

I'm not sure. If you want less spellcasting in your game then it would make sense to discourage people from wanting to play spellcasters. This seems to be a good way to have less spellcasting in your campaign without outright banning all spellcasting classes. You would have to also eliminate or...

In my opinion, OSR game play is just as valid as any other approach to RPG. The rules are different but not worse or better. There is absolutely no reason not to introduce new players to D&D through OSR or older editions. If older edition D&D is what excites you, then that is the edition you...

Stars Without Number does what I need for a sci-fi game. But I would support a Star Frontiers ported to 5E.

The Spanish Inquisition would need to be unladen or they would have had penalties to their stealth roll.

Wasn't listed in the poll so I voted other. B/X (Tom Moldvay, Dave Cook, Steve Marsh '81) is my all time favorite edition. It was the edition I started with and it is the edition I later revisited and fell back in love with. I include a lot of the newer retro-clones in this (Old-School...

Get back to running some Meetup games online and eventually in person hopefully. Looking at an Old School Essentials Hex Crawl game. Also get my Stars Without Number game running as well.

I'll be completely honest. Sometimes your point gets lost in the length of your posts and in this case I probably lost the point you were trying to make. I probably overreacted to what you were saying as a result. If that is your weakness, mine is probably overreacting to things. Not sure which...

B/X D&D has become the baseline of the OSR. For good reason. It is a fantastic game. It is a rosetta stone for Old School D&D experience. It is (in and of itself) probably the best version of D&D ever produced. But some modern clones have taken it and improved on it. I particularly like Old...

I still don't get it. Why the consternation? I don't want Tabaxi or Elephant people in my game. I don't really like dragonborn but they are in the PHB so I go with it. Why do you care? Why are you writing these massive posts that are now starting to bring in real issues of parenting and...

I've run Dungeon World. It is a good game to recenter yourself as a DM. I'm not sure if I would consider these games good for novice DM's though.