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@payn just reminded me that I hadn't counted work done on basic campaign support for my VTT of choice (Maptool), which probably adds some to what I quoted, though it tends to be somewhat frontloaded.

Trying to set up this sort of thing can be interesting, but its also hazardous in that the stakes can seem consistently too high to the players.

I easily blew past the largest category, as we play every other week for 7-8 hours. I'm not sure when in the last two decades I'd have said less than 150 hours, and that's probably being seriously conservative (there were years I easily played twice that being involved in a game every week)...

Hmmm. There's definitely some system variance here--a game with a wide variety of broadly usable standard opposition will reduce the time because I can just plug-and-play those, and more detailed games tend to require a bit more prep time, as will games that are more structured and less...

Its been out since March, but I don't think I heard of it myself until about June.

How do you feel about people who were not 5e players at all, but might have given a genuinely innovative change at least a look (this happened to me back in the 3e days, after all)? It doesn't seem to directly answer your question since I wouldn't have been coming from a position of already...

Finishing up "The Folded Sky", the third of Elizabeth Bear's Whitespace novels. I've found I've enjoyed them a lot more than I would have thought, and its kind of interesting hitting a series that's set in a common setting but otherwise not strongly interconnected.

If someone thought it was in the mirror, how would you even know about it? They'd just quietly reflect on the problem. As such, its survivor bias; the only problems you're liable to hear about art the ones projected outward.

I do have to note that how similar the BECMI games are to OD&D is a matter of perspective. Ask someone who started out in late '75 (and thus post Greyhawk) where races were treated like classes or not for example, and you'll probably get some pretty varied answers (this largely being because...

Templates are, indeed, a good solution, but you need to almost present them as a default; if you just put it in as an optional tool, most people aren't going to use it for just that reason.

Well in terms of that, if I wanted more grounded fantasy I had lot of (to my POV) better choices.

Its a fairly common feeling for one reason or another. I pulled the plug as a GM at level 14, not out of preference, but practicality.

It might be worthwhile to look up a game called Everyverse sometime; it takes a tact in its handling somewhat like that (rolling it back even farther).

While I agree with the first half of what you say here, once you have people who are used to any free-build system, they're no more likely to have decision paralysis here than in any game with decision-based character gen. The only real problem you'll run into (and this is especially true with...

Just got my copies of the Fragged Kingdom 2e PDFs, and the Beta version PDF of Outgunned Superheroes.

I have the advantage I only read a limited subset of threads here, and I suspect a lot of those are about thing going on in threads deep in the 5e discussion.

There are problems with MoM mechanically (the diplomacy sysstem is garbage, and some top end units are just too good) but the biggest problem for people who didn't play it when it came out is the graphics are, to be generous, primitive.

I've been doing XCOM1 with the Long War mod for a while now. Lot of nice things about it (though I'm literally playing the easiest version of the eight levels) but it drags out the end game which has always been an issue with those in general.

I dunno, I still say in terms of management, it wasn't that it was high level it was that everything had to be represented with separate, individualized class features or feats. I know of games that play in the same power levels as 4e or 3e D&D that are much easier to manage than those were...

Even when they do, there was a lot of room for decision paralysis there.