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This is similar to some ideas I've had about making an OSR 5E. I would add... Eliminate cantrips. Light becomes a 1st level spell that allows blinding a foe. I've also considered the idea of taking 'advanced classes' and redesigning them into subclasses of the core. For example Ranger becomes...

This is an interesting point. You decide your abilities or you roll them and they can shape how you approach the character you created. What I want to make clear that in my approach to the game, this is a voluntary course of action taken by the player, if it improves their enjoyment. What I...

Well, I do use skills in the game the dice are a part of the game. I even mentioned in a previous post that a Charisma roll is often used as a Reaction indicator to determine initial disposition (if not otherwise known). So it is not like a player can completely cancel the negative of having a 3...

I look at that in the light of "even the most repulsive personality can sometimes make a point that is uncontestable." A character with a 3 Charisma is going to have enough mechanical penalties, I don't see a need to also penalize the player for wanting to roleplay. Agree with handling it with...

To me, both are a part of the game, but Skilled Play is considered to be more important and more emphasized than Role Play. Role Play exists to add spice and context to the Skilled Play. I can imagine my character being in a dungeon environment and role play how that character acts and makes...

I'll add to the chorus of Old School Essentials. Old School Essentials. It has an SRD that you can reference here: OSE SRD With the Advanced Fantasy option (just recently Kickstarted), Old School Essentials has pretty much made 5E obsolete for me. My next hex crawl campaign is going to be...

As I already stated. You have no knowledge or experience about me or my group or how my game dynamics work. You certainly aren’t qualified to make a judgment. If you are so offended about how I play D&D, such that you feel the need to make unfounded assertions as to my attitudes then I don’t...

No. So basically... “I don’t like the same things you like in D&D so I must be acting in bad faith”. What gives you the authority to judge me for my own game and my own group? You’re making a bad faith arguement in that you are telling people, without knowing anything about them, their group...

In my B/X / OSE / Basic Fantasy game, a natural 20 means auto-hit and roll damage die twice and take the greater result. A 1 is an auto-miss but no critical fail results.

I get this with 5E all the time. One thing I've noticed with 5E and more modern games is that they have more powers and abilities, so they have more tricks. I notice players tend to describe and declare what they do, each step of the way. It is as if they need to 'show their work' to show how...

Reduce Hit Points. I may decide to just ignore the Con mod bonus and just used rolled hit dice. Have them be proficient in at least 2 saves that make sense (with so magic available to PCs, monsters need better saves). Consider some abilities of monsters that are detailed as actions, but don't...

It depends on the game. But I have to re-evaluate because there really is no such thing as a trash fight. Those who run story based games would not have a trash fight, unless it fit in their story. Those who run more sandbox games would not consider any fight a trash fight because it was an...

Modern D&D combat is slow. Way slower than old school D&D. Too many options, too many hit points, too many different ways to execute actions. Especially 5e where you have cantrips where some are attack rolls, but others are saving throws. Trash fights is only a concept that exists in modern...

Well, if I'm running a casual Saturday Night Special that is intended to just be a night of playing D&D as a one shot then anything goes. But my campaign that started after the playtest was at first Basic Rules only (all we had at the time) and then Players Handbook only. The only other D&D...

Agree totally. I think some of that user's response was based on a post I made here: D&D 5E - What is the appeal of the weird fantasy races? That was what I said. My point is maybe you said something similar, but I know I did and I think the response to you was actually based on something I...

I think @Chaosmancer is misattributing some of my quotes as yours. I have at some point in this thread made those points. Still making a gross mischaracterization of my points. Specifically, what I think @Chaosmancer thinks you said, that I actually said... I have made the point of the DM...

Crikey! I had to go and re-read the rules. I never caught on to this in my years of playing 5E. When I hit downed PCs, I never even bothered to roll damage! I just had them mark the failed save. Man been running this wrong for so long. Thanks for that.

I run it any creature within range that the caster can see. In a dungeon it is easy, pretty much anyone in the room. In a wilderness if a caster is surrounded by 4 orcs one in each direction, he can hold person or magic missile each of them. To me a group is an encounter of creatures. A group...

This kind of points towards a point I've made earlier. My campaign is also very human-centric in a swords & sorcery / Science Fantasy sort of way. There are fantastic creatures and cultures and entities out there, but most of them are alien and intended to be NPCs or monsters only. So, if I...

The opposite is also true. Something as simple as "I don't like X, I don't want it in my game" shouldn't be something determined to be so egregiously selfish that you are demonized for feeling that way. Respect certainly does go both ways. Many of my players run their own games. I respect the...