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For whatever it's worth whoever at Square came up with the active time battle system used in Final Fantasy 4 through 9 was inspired by American football and used that analogy to explain it, including, IIRC, in the patent application.

Pharaoh, I suppose, that being the only one I've attempted to run more than once. Nothing in 5E.

Herald sounds more like a Bard replacement minus the musical theme. It doesn't say "Paladin" to me at all and there isn't a single alternative suggestion in this thread that I don't like better.

I'm still not seeing a principled difference between Athletics and Acrobatics that isn't either Str vs Dex or "because we've always done it this way". Why couldn't those be Athletics checks? What is gained by making it a separate skill? I'm especially puzzled by your second example. Climbing is...

It seems to me this is just a way of saying Acrobatics should always be tied to Dexterity and Athletics should always be tied to Strength. But we know that's not what they're doing. Here's a couple questions that may help you see where the person you're replying to is coming from. Can you...

Probably about 100, but I went with "90-99" because I feel like the answer is probably a lot closer to 90 than to 150 if I'm choosing between ranges that include those numbers. I haven't kept an exact count and it would be a hopeless endeavour to try to create one now.

I actually liked it better wrong, in some ways! The one you originally linked is really important too, and gives a lot of context to the one you meant.

Actually, he detailed the state he left the book in is a different post, a follow-up to the one you linked, namely this one.

Jeebus. One of the most purely good-news stories I can think of in quite some time, and the very first comment is someone trying to claim it's actually all doom-and-gloom.

This is the first of these Survivor threads I've noticed that I can actually see the point of. You can only run so many adventures and so this is a thought process someone might actually have a practical reason to go through. Eliminating (for example) all but one class from a game designed to...

I haven't read nearly all 26 pages of replies, so maybe this point has already been made, but why assume it's a question of time, rather than, say, effort, or how different magical energies interact, or which things it is and isn't physically possible to do simultaneously? If this is a major...

An important point most of the replies seem to have overlooked, or perhaps in a few cases might be consciously ignoring. So you could maybe do something like: Rahasia Night's Dark Terror Desert of Desolation trilogy original Drow trilogy Labyrinth of Madness And have it more or less work...

So far most people are comparing the two "main" ones that are designed to give a mainstream D&D experience. Anyone in a position to say how the Stranger Things one compares? That was also passingly mentioned in the OP. (There's actually a fourth one, as someone also mentioned. However, I don't...

To just answer the question in the thread title, around the beginning of the pandemic I started running Zeitgeist online under 4E. This is the reason for my recent return to being semi-active here, hardly a regular but I'm back to making more than just three comments a year or so. We're maybe a...

Intellectually I understand that this is the case, but I can never really grok why. Subtracting a negative number is literally just addition. If anything it's easier than subtracting a positive number!

It's accurate. Holmes basic is vastly different from B/X and BECMI. As someone else pointed out above, this was particularly true with respect to alignment, of which Holmes had five in a system that was never used in any other version of D&D. You'd be on much firmer ground with just B/X, but...

I know I've been saying that since shortly after it came out, and I don't intend it as a joke. Though some people do find the observation amusing. (Especially when someone initially misses the point, and asks "what's the first?", eliciting the answer "that varies, but the second is nearly always...

"Still"? AD&D 1st Edition predates BECMI, as others have already gone over in more detail. This particular compilation came out about the same time 2nd Edition started, but even the original boxed sets it compiled were from several years after the three core AD&D1 books. The later ones were...

I'm Canadian, so they're using "math" correctly but "colour" incorrectly as far as I'm concerned...