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  1. John Quixote

    Other D&D Variant What is your favorite version of D&D offshoot/D20 fantasy today? Tell us why it is the best!

    Beyond the Wall / Through Sunken Lands. Most would point to the playbooks or the "build the village" mechanic as the selling point, but for me, it's the magic system. BtW/TSL is like a B/X clone that caps at 10th level, with three core classes (fighter, rogue, and mage, where the mage also...
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    OSR [Old School Essentials] Advanced Fantasy Races?

    Advanced Labyrinth Lord / Advanced Edition Companion is the same. Outright says that you can have an elf and an elf fighter/magic-user adventuring next to each other and it'll work out just fine. And it does.
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    Hit points as luck

    I like to conceptualize cure light wounds as curing wounds to both body and soul. The spell both heals bruises with divine magic and lifts weary spirits like a kind word or a bit of sage counsel. Makes it feel like something Gandalf might do to subtly pluck up the mood of a homesick hobbit.
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    D&D General [OSR] Holmes 77 Retro-Clone

    I remember these clones from back when. And the drama. But it's understandable to me that a Holmes clone won't usually get a lot of attention. The Holmes rules are a subset of the LBB + Greyhawk rules plus a handful of idiosyncrasies. You can make a Holmes clone for the sake of preservation or...
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    Other D&D Variant Basic Fantasy - Anybody here regularly play it? Why yes, why not?

    I just use the Rules Cyclopedia, but the BFRPG "0-Level Spells" supplement is among the house rules I patch in.
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