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I run a large number of games where there's basically no prep required for deeply engaging and exciting gameplay. One thing I really like about a lot of the better OSR stuff is you can skim through the rooms / NPCs / tables and go "whoa" and immediately start getting excited about seeing how...

It's a WOTC published setting, especially where the Wildemount book has been added on to and fleshed out for publication. Mercer may have started that, but there's a lot more contributing authors on it. Yes, the pantheon comes from 4e (this is good?), but the world itself as you'll play in it...

Again, Exandria does this, especially Wildemount. It’s why I think it’s the most “5e” of extant WOTC published stuff.

@Reynard you asked about Exandria, there was a thread about that recently. I think it's the most 5e / current play culture WOTC official setting to come out, and the Wildemount book in particular is actually quite good. My specific bulletized list walking through some strong points is here.

Questing Beasts' review of the FR campaign setting's little encounters suggested this as well, yeah.

That’s more likely going to be caused by images than page count. FWIW, the 302 page PDF spread of Stonetop’s Book 2 is 26mb inclusive of plenty of simple black and white images. I’ve run ~170 hours of gaming directly from fractions of the total content in there with occasional jotted notes; and...

Red Hand of Doom is basically a Front in D&D before AW even released. It’s a wordy in places and needs a little work but is so much better in overall format and usability then basically everything I’ve seen for 5e, while providing more meat then most 4e adventures.

You don't present the long form background prose within the like keyed location / at-the-table content though. You do a hyperlink, page number reference, etc that brings you back to the longer stuff. Or you have a section of "stuff the PCs can research/learn" that's separate again. It's funny...

Just for giggles, here's the current Miro board for my Tuesday game 5 sessions in. I love how well this tool works for online gaming from an organizational and transparency perspective.

Hm. I made new stuff for my DH frames to make sure they worked well with its core design and intentions.

Sure, but the base spread (before you add in your level) of Leather Armor is 11 -> 27 or 16. So there's a lot of numbers in there you could roll on a dice which don't affect the incoming damage's effect at all as far as how much HP you're marking. It's entirely possible that you could have...

So can I! Just like @BruceWright though I don't want to have to read very fast at the table, I want to read the bare minimum to springboard off of; and then be able to rapidly reference the hidden -> secret info when players start declaring actions in accordance with the procedures of the game...

Sure, this is a You thing. That's valid, but I have a way easier time running NG's products then anything I've ever touched that does the long form annoyance like you typed out. I'd rather let my imagination grab the short pithy bits and spin out the words on the fly - that way I can improvise...

Is it just me or is the 6th level splendor ability "Zone of Protection" really underwhelming? Thinking about adjusting it to just reducing the HP allies in the zone must mark by 1 if they would mark at least Major damage or something.

Gotcha, that's on a slightly different scale!

It's a little cleaner in the actual layout, and yeah not everybody vibes with Necrotic Gnome's house style - but it gives you a very clear at the table experience written in quality landmark -> hidden -> secret style. Basically all the good OSR stuff is using some sort of format that helps the...

I’ve seen way more “oh holy crap why did I never think of that” creativity in OSR-esque stuff then anything written in long form prose with endless italics and the like. Like, look at Dolmenwood. It’s got amazing factions + NPCs + ideas and just oodles of flavor, but puts that all in nice neat...

My favorite CRPG I've played in a very long time has been Tyranny, just because it asked "ok, what happens when the Dark Lord who craves domination and total power wins." Draw Steel!'s world is doing something similar. In both cases, the calamity is intended to drive play. I think setting...

I'm reminded of opening up the generally solid Neverwinter Campaign Setting and trying to figure out why it starts with like 30k years of history that have 0 bearing on the actual game you're going to play, and doesn't even structure it in a way that helps tie directly to the situation and...

"I think this is teh best dungeon geography ever made" & etc. Clearly many disagree. Their opinion is no less valid. I enjoyed the Iso maps in the 5e Curse of Strahd for trying to give an idea of the sweep and scale, but they were useless to run off of; the standard top down maps were more...