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In my earlier post I also forgot to mention Rogue Modrons, another old Planescape staple. I actually had a player run one for a while, it was a lot of fun. I suspect they are too ‘non-humanoid’, which might be why we got autognomes instead; the current designers seem to shy away from PC species...

I was really surprised to see bariaur were not a playable species in the new Planescape set, I really liked the Shardminds, they were unique and interesting, but probably too tied into 4e lore to see a return. We have Tabaxi now, but we’ve never seen the dogfolk from Mystara show back up...

In a lot of Kaiju movies, the humans need to research, discover and exploit a specific weakness of the monster; fighting it directly is impossible. You could take that idea and weave it into a scenario, where your heroes need to survive the stompy monster and environmental destruction in order...

I’m more of a lurker than a regular poster, but why not… Name: Way back in the days of AD&D 1e, The Hand was the moniker of a fighter/thief elf I created for play in the Temple of Elemental Evil. Not only did he survive the adventure, but he was the first character I created a backstory for and...

Paranormal Power (Psionics Option) by Enworld’s very own @Steampunkette is also highly regarded by some of us here.

Yes agreed! It’s fun to run around the Dalelands. Silverblades might be one of my personal least favorite Gold Box games

Replayed scenes from decade-old campaign (“Flashback” to bring newer players up to speed)

Once again, really enjoying the trip down memory lane with these. Curse is one of my favorite Gold Box games, but I always hated how rail-roaded the first section is, especially compared to how open ended its predecessor was.

Ahh okay. I'm used to the term "Pact Magic" referring to all Warlock spells, but here ToV is actually differentiating between "Wyrd Spells" (half-caster slots) and "Pact Spells" (from Subclass). Huh. Yeah, not sure I like those being separated like that. (Then again, I'm probably only going to...

I got my books (Player Guide, Monster Vault, and Screen). I’m glad to report I had no damage in shipping! The production quality is very high and the books have great art throughout. I’m now looking through the classes, most I wouldn’t say are -radically- different than their 5e counterparts...

Yes, let’s not delude ourselves into thinking any of the BattleTech books are great works of literature, but if we’re grading on a curve (and maybe wearing some tinted spectacles), I still say the Stackpole BattleTech books were a cut above all the other rpg related novels I’ve read - including...

Seconding the BattleTech novels, particularly the earlier Stackpole ones. He does a good job of bringing intrigue and politics to a universe otherwise about stompy robots lasting each other. His novels even do a serviceable job of bouncing around the different factions, giving us different...

I started with Basic D&D, through 1e and 2e. But sometime in 2e, D&D felt like it had been left behind by the huge world of other RPGs that were proliferating. Me and my peers, being young and hungry, dove into just about every other rpg that we could get our hands on. By the mid 90s we really...

I’ve been running such a long Planescape campaign (predating 5e), that I’m too ingrained in the wheel cosmology,* even though it has a lot of gygaxism carry overs and odd choices. This new map seems ‘adequate’ if not very inspired. I am a little baffled why they chose “Hades” over “Gray Waste”...

Safari adventurers unfortunately meet Godzilla

I played in a short-lived Aberrant game. The feeling we got was that it worked OK for doing low-powered 'barely super' type games, ala something like the old Heroes TV show, and that the old White Wolf engine broke down with higher dice pools and powers. I think there's probably lots better...

While Everyday Heroes isn’t a bad take on 5e Modern, I regret giving this company any money. I don’t think I could ever run or play it without feeling gross

I would certainly try a non-canon game if a friend were running it, but my preference would be to leave the original trilogy and prequel era all alone, as shown on film. But anything else would be totally open season. What I’ve usually done, when I want to make things familiar but different...