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Cool. I'm interested in GaryCon for the old school games, as I said earlier no desire at all to play AL or the like, and the one thread made is seem like the OS games were being pushed to the side and it was turning into every other Con dominated by the new edition. So I get worried about...

Thanks for all the good info. I have zero interest in AL or honestly played 5e/PF there so that one thread got me wondering. It was a pit pissy in tone between some of the participants. I'll have to make a decision tomorrow.

Reading the GC forums I'm seeing some tension between OSR and AL gamers. Is AL/PFS taking over the Con or something? I'm waiting for an Admin to approve me for posting so I can ask a few questions there.

Yeah, being a fraction of the size of GenCon and more OSR focused, I've heard, really appeals to me. I'm looking for old school tourney AD&D/OD&D type gaming. Plus some mini gaming. Well run?

Really thinking of getting a silver badge and heading up this year. What to expect? Is it just non stop gaming with industry legends or is that more of the myth, or more reserved for those with the really expensive badges? How is the vendor setup? A lot of stuff for sale? Is the miniature...

that sounds pretty cool. I've always wanted to tick Gen-Con off my bucket list but its too big and expensive these days. I'm guessing GaryCon has this kind of old school tourney action as well, and probably in OD&D or 1E! In any event thanks for the article. :)

My goal is to paint half as many guys as you do this year. I expect to fall short though.

My system exactly.

IME crits in 5e are very overpowered. I added in crits in S&W and just made them a max damage hit, if I ever run 3e or 5e again I'll probably do that. Crit fumbles are amusing but often too much of a kick in the nuts.

If it works for you game go for it. IME jacking up damage even more would make most encounters trivial though. Monsters already fall pretty quick with the low AC values. How many players do you have? And I found that bonus dice crits dominated the outcome of most fights so even more sneak...

I think I was never that invested in a particular character, even my name sake, I was into the game. Roll up a new PC and get payback on that dungeon...and DM. Then again I'm deeply hacky and slashy.

Even in my loaded with save or die S&W campaign where the players are using their PC as a playing piece in the game, it sucks to die and they are not happy when it happens. The new PC is lower level, or the raised PC if they can even do that loses CON. So there is an in game mechanical penalty...

Interesting article but some issues. You do have to cooperate, even as easy as, IME, 5e is on the player. Especially over teh first few levels when it almost feels like and older edition at times. I do agree generally with the idea that the DM is telling a story is a part of the newer game...

I need to check this game out.

that original 1e PH art still screams D&D louder to me than anything else. Most later art could be any generic fantasy novel cover. But that one is a pure example of a scene from 100's of game sessions I've played in.

Some huge Paladin smite crits and rogue sneak attack crits were key, and just the ability of party of 6 PC to pile on the damage against the low AC of 5e even after I maxed his HP. They had some luck on their side but it was disappointing that the final fight of the campaign was one of the...

My group in my last 5e game went though Demogorgon like crap through a goose. 3 rounds of slap down humiliation for the "prince of demons" at the hands of a 10th/11th level party no less. He decided to not reform in the abyss after that and the rest of the demons started looking for new lines...

Pretty much IME. D&D 5e is very forgiving past 3-4th level regardless but with feats I was pretty much rewriting monsters on the fly to try and make it remotely interesting for my table. Its why I stopped running the game. I think 5e was designed to be easy mode D&D as a feature. Easier to...

Horror games don't work since I've never been scared playing any type of game. I think you need people who are wanting to deeply role-play and find that fun to make CoC really work. Books and movies have given me a honest sense of dread, but a game? Nope. And in gaming I'd be more Titus...

Yeah when we go Borg will be more into assimilating everything than playing D&D.