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So, I tried to run a 5e game using my own version of gritty rules, including 1e/2e overnight healing, slow HD recovery rates, use of HD for primary healing, and a modified exhaustion mechanic that still used 6 levels, but had graduated minuses that affected all classes (including spellcasters)...

@Lanefan Thanks for the write up. And while there are 12 languages in my campaign ‘so far’, that is in the two starting countries where each of the parties are. As they move further afield, if they do, then they will be exposed to and have to deal with other languages, some which might have...

Each of our characters has the same 3-5 as yours does, with "common" and their native tongue as the first two. For the Int spellcasters, while not optimal, Linguist bumps Int and give 3 languages just like that (no one ever accused me of being an optimiser). The party can always speak to each...

I wish things like Comprehend Languages and similar "non-combat" spells were used more in our 5e games. Most often in 5e, everyone has so many languages available to them via race, etc., that they're often saying "well, I'll just take language x for the heck of it". And in a party of 4 or 5...

In an old campaign we played in, one of our players gained a "Negative Material" sword. It was made entirely of material from the negative material plane. Of course, we then had to track down a "Positive Material" sword as a counterbalance. Trust me, it made more sense in the actual...

None. I wish they’d leave the old stuff alone, and do a new setting, or something actually “new”. And please, please for the love of all things, leave Greyhawk alone…

Couldn’t really answer the poll because I’m not sure where I fit. I use 3PP materials, but only bits and pieces in my homebrew sandbox. I don’t use whole settings, rarely use classes, sometimes modded monsters, sometimes a specific location. I use them for inspiration, but don’t depend on them.

Savage Worlds/Deadlands sounds like it would fit rather nicely. It might require some reconceptualizing or skinning to get some of those characters represented, but I think its possible. (I have not played much, but read the rules).

They may be out there, but they’re fewer and farther between. Fortunately for me (or not, depending on perspective), I’m pretty inured to this whole debacle, after going through these types of antics already with Games Workshop. I don’t engage with GW anymore, and won’t with WOTC…

Beyond the Wall is wonderful. I am running it for one game, and am always going back to it for inspiration for other games.

Be sticking with Basic/OSE for the foreseeable future. Will also be trying out Pendragon, Alien RPG, and some other ‘built for purpose’ games.

Agree. And I’d add OSE and OSE Advanced as well. We went “back” to Basic and then onto OSE, and are sticking there. Strangely enough, engaging with and interacting with the ‘worldwide community’ has soured a lot at our table to 5e, so there can be good and bad. The latest rounds of doom and...

Quit 5th, went back to Basic (running two separate, concurrent campaigns in Greyhawk), ended up switching happily OSE Advanced for those campaigns, and that’s where we seem to be staying.

Except it doesn’t really avoid the tropes, IMO, because many of those tropes are universal. I grabbed the Chronicles way back when, and always am checking it out to see what species (probably races in the book) I could pull to make things “different” in my fantasy worlds, and there really isn’t...

This right here. And, as we experienced in our multi-year campaign before jettisoning 5e, the HP bloat on characters and monsters doesn't really help at all. I know its sort of apples and oranges, but an Ad&d ancient red dragon had 88 max hit points. A 5e ancient red has 546hp (average! 812...

I spend just as much time changing and modifying stuff made by “professional designers” as by folks I’ve met here, or from kickstarter, or from random things I’ve bought on Drivethru or DMsGuilid. Being a professional does not automatically mean its useful or good. I mean, look at half the...

I would likely purchase a product like you described if it was hitting my sweet spot for the type of campaign I'm running (i.e. low magic, medieval, more 'standard' dndish, etc.). I can always change an NPC's name, or motivation. I can always change a forest's name. I can always change the...

Yes, except for Second Wind (more hp), average HP+ Con per level, fighting style benefits, plus potentially Feats (if we’re counting weapon specialization). My F2/W14 had 114 hp in 5e. My Ad&d Wizard at 12th level had 44. It’s pretty significant. And, at least at our table, in Ad&d we didn’t...

Iirc, a 1e bugbear, by way of comparison did 2d4 or by weapon type, same as a PC’s weapon. Now, the bugbear does 2d8+2. Why? HP bloat. Then all of a sudden healing can’t keep pace. I wonder why. Monsters need more HP, PCs need to do more damage, monsters need to do more damage, everyone...

We talk about and remember the deaths, near deaths, Slicer Beetle attacks, and other super threatening events waay longer than the "wins" or the successes. I had a cleric survive a Slicer Beetle attack (in Ad&d) that lost him a hand, and we still talk about that 40 odd years later. They make...