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I'm collecting players for my in person experiment of this approach. I'm thinking I'm going to start with a sci-fi one shot using MiniSix. APG: Mini Six I played a lot of WEG Starwars d6 and think I'll be able to handle three or four character's worth of stats if I use the streamlined...

Do we need WotC to do this? Perhaps if any of us want supporting material for OD&D through 2E, we'd be better off supporting retroclone projects and people publishing for them. With the OGL opening up previous editions, we can have excellent products available for any edition of D&D. I...

XP for gold is key to OD&D, Basic & 1E play. In fact, in those games, it is the majority source of XP. This creates a particular style of play when combined with wondering monsters-- who rarely, if ever, have treasure types as good as "lairs" do. If the majority of XP comes from treasure...

When I look at the character sheet, I'd agree that it appears to be not like 3rd ed. However... When I look at how it's handled in the system, I don't agree. The math and how it's all handled is right out of 3E. d20 + ability mod + skill + other bonuses vs DC. That's 3rd ed. 2nd ed is...

I see more 3rd in the playtest than any other addition. The skills are all still there, but you just have a modifier equal to your ability if you specifically don't have training. No skill points, but who knows what all the character creation options will bring. The initiative system is the...

I'd rather see it as a critical bonus for the fighter. Roll a 20? Well, you're in such a good position in the fight, there's a second opening for you.

I'm almost a single issue voter on this. My number one issue is: Show us that the talk about modularity wasn't just talk. But my number two issue is: Make it open. However, my reasoning is the same for both. If WotC can't deliver on modularity to produce the type of play I want, I want to...

I'd say OD&D started with the goal of representing adventure in a mythic underworld rather than reality. The way doors were stuck for PCs but not for monsters, the way they'd close by themselves if not spiked open. I'm not sure D&D has always been about representing reality-- but only...

Well, i just whipped up a spreadsheet page with about as small a font as I'm comfortable with in print and managed to fit 3724 results on a page. Given a system that uses the same die size and no more than a handful of results per rules interaction and a single page could last me a very, very...

Not everyone is interested in games that are about simulating reality. When I say work, I mean "produce the type of play that the game was intended to produce."

I honestly don't know. I ended up not playing 3.anything after around 2002. Whatever WotC did, had they handled it like a normal book edition change rather than a D&D edition change, they could have not caused the ruckus that they did. They did try to market it as an upgrade/replacement, even...

From how Ryan Dancey talks, having it be 3.5 and not just a release of 3 with some updates caused the d20 bubble to burst because all the 3 compatible stuff wasn't lining up with the 3.5 new rules and it became dead stock. What I'm talking about is if they did a reprint of 3rd, they don't sell...

This is an excellent point. I ran 4E on hard mode for a couple of years and while the regular group members were fine with it, when a new person who liked 4E came to join the game, I was told I wasn't being fair.

So it's more the second issue. I play quite a bit of GMless Fate and In A Wicked Age, so I get wanting to spread accessibility to the shared fiction around with the rules. My issue is that of the first. That if the rules work, why would you need to set them aside? And if they don't work and...

I was under the impression that the forum counter that showed who joined DDI incremented when you joined, but didn't reduce when you stopped subscribing. So they have 70,000+ people who ever subscribed, at some point, for atleast a month. Who knows what the actual number is. I doubt WotC...

But they didn't even try the "remake the rules from the ground up so everyone who likes the game will buy it again" approach once. You can take a random Call of Cthulhu adventure from some magazine from the early 80s and run it, with no changes, with the latest printing of the rules. They did...

Loonook - Fantastic post. Just the other day my friend apologized after a session he DMed that he used a random die roller on his android phone rather than rolling dice. I guess he thought that it wasn't "real" enough compared to using dice. None of the players had an issue. I then told him...

The strongest criticism of "Rulings not rules" I ever read was that it is basically an admission that the rules don't work. That something about them is either broken or incomplete and that they don't produce the type of play they were designed to and thus, fail and need to be set aside. Is...

I do think the "revamp the game to resell core rulebooks" model is utterly broken. It just pisses people off and divides the audience by edition. I think Ryan Dancey was right on when he described 3.5 as the beginning of the current problems. All those retailers stuck with product on their...

So you do a partial black box? 1) Players create their characters normally 2) Still roll dice So what part of it is handled on your end? Do the players not know the meaning of the die rolls they are making? Couldn't a session allow them to figure out the system? I'm still thinking I will...