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Most of the above comments are solid and I agree completely. With re: to monsters, I find that everything up to 1e is pretty straightforward to just port over, maybe keeping an eye on Morale for some of the monsters (I seemed to have noticed some creep). Don't be afraid to lower a monster's...

When you say you use the UA Feats, and have a larger variety of half feats, are you still giving out stat increases for Feats, or only for half feats? I feel like the proposed options were 1) Feats and no ASI (Feats don't give ASI) 2) Feats with +1 ASI Or am I off in left field? Basically...

I still don't think you get it. @Reynard IS SAYING THAT THE PLAYERS AT HIS TABLE PREFERRED THAT WAY OF PLAYING I have a player that wants to follow the path (or at least the one that leads to treasure, magic items, and power), but won't make a decision for himself when asked "what do you do next?"

I like that @Egon Spengler , particularly the d6 mechanic for spell failure. It seems then that I'd have to sit down and classify the spells and rituals and cantrips according to the spellcasters in the game. In OSE Advanced, they have Bards, Rangers, Paladins, Clerics, Wizards... probably...

When we played 1e I think we played it this way, its been awhile: Initiative was d10 + Weapon Speed Factor/Casting Time. So a sword with speed factor 7 + d10 roll of 5 = Init 12 for that character. If you cast a 1 segment spell, it was your D10 roll (say 8), plus the 1 segment = Init 9. So...

Most of my table is like this. As a DM, I have to create a setting and have it make sense to me, in order for me to enjoy the journey. My players: 1) Doesn't interact with the lore, doesn't say much, but observes and can recount all the hints and connections, even though you think he is not...

Beyond the Wall is great. Lots of ideas, and I love the basic system. Beyond the Wall has the feel of YA novels, where the characters start out young-ish, rather than adults, but its easy to adapt. Through Sunken Lands, I think, is more of a teeming metropolis with characters leaving to...

I'm running two "sandbox" games right now. And they're a mix of what is being talked about here. In the first, knowing these players, they need that first "adventure" to get them moving. Once they're moving, I can sprinkle hooks and rumors here and there, and then they are free to pursue...

My 5e group hated smaller engagement distances. They wanted all the time in the world to use long range spells and long range weapons to finish off the enemy before they ever got to melee range. Needless to say, they didn’t always get their way. They also hated it when I used goblins or...

Back when we played in the 80’s (dons old head hat), WE WERE the only group we knew playing DnD. WE were the community. The only others we knew about in ”the community“ were people who wrote into Dragon Magazine. We didn’t do conventions, the internet was but a wee thing. ”The Community”...

I agree with @delericho about having a very simple baked in group reward element. The other thing is that we DON’T do elaborate backstories. Maybe where you originated, and maybe a character goal (or if you want to lean into a Bond, Flaw, Ideal), but thats about it. The characters are...

Most groups and campaigns (IME) just hand wave party cohesion away. Since the game isn’t ‘competitive’ between players, the only other option is to cooperate, otherwise, what are we doing here? Sometimes the group I play in will have one or two players come up with a joint background, or some...

That’s why I am using Old School Essentials with the Advanced Fantasy rules. They add in some of the Ad&d crunch, but the ‘advanced’ classes aren’t better than the originals, and they optionally split out separate races, offer martials weapon expertise, etc. So you can add in some crunch, but...

Which one? Giants? Desert Nomads? Lost City? My party in OSE is currently 1st level, we were going to be doing some intro via the side adventures outlined in the Silver Anniversary of Giants to get them up in level. But still happy to give it a whirl :)

We already moved on from 5e to Basic/Expert and Old School Essentials in both groups I play in (our old gaming group, tracking on 40 years, now playing all online - Discord/Owlbear or Discord/Fantasy Grounds). Opens up so much more for us - faster gameplay, less analysis paralysis, more...

One player in our group is like that. Never wants to be injured, always has to be at peak efficiency, doesn’t care a whit about the story, wants the strongest PC he can build, multiclass, or magic item/spell into. Doesn’t want challenge, just fight stuff and win. Its annoying to play...

I hope that intro wasn’t written by Edge Studios…it should be “classes” not “cases“ right? I’m hoping this will be solid.

I clicked the wrong answer too. I’d change my answer to ‘yes’. When I read the two sentences of the spell “A creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target’s person.” I took that to mean...

In my game, I refluffed the Artificier to be a Runecaster. Changed the names, removes potions and other such that didn't fit, reworked spells to fit theme, and there you go. Full on Runecaster as support character. Worked a treat for me. I've been carefully following Runes in DnD from...

I don't think it'll happen. If it does, that means they're totally throwing any class niche away (not that it isn't already watered down pretty well). I could see them doing it if they removed multiclassing all together (again, nothing that I ever expect to happen). Then there would be a...