I've been waiting for the Necrotic Tome and Demonomicon (or whatever they're calling them) for soooooo looooooong. I'm really hoping this stuff lands before May.
@Nikosandros, I have yet another question if you'll indulge me (again!). Does the Fighter combat dominance option (multiple attacks versus creatures under 1 HD) apply to race-classes like Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, etc.? Is it ever made explicit in the text one way or the other?
Nice work! It sounds like you have a plan of attack and that you're being very deliberate in balancing it with the WFH situation. Re: the bug, yeah. I'm still constantly blowing my nose from the cold I caught a week or so ago. I suspect this is going to be the story for the rest of the winter. :/
Hmmm…wasn’t getting notifications on this thread. 😕
Feeling pretty good on the four day split. Pull ups stalled out in the second set; I’m hoping it’s because my form was a bit tighter compared to last week. Most everything g else went up.
Upper 2
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bench...
As I've gotten older, I find prep to be the most odious part of DMing. I think it's a large part of why I moved away from 5/5.5e back to B/X (by way of OSE). I use published adventures in a published world (Known World). If I can spend less than 15 minutes of prep for a session, I'm a happy guy...
@Nikosandros, I have another question if you can indulge me. What does the Barbarian magic item restriction look like in the update? Which items/spells become allowed at what level?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks for your willingness to talk us through all this, @Nikosandros! OSE has become my game of choice, so I'm eager to see what the updates bring. :)
And in keeping with my hypocrisy, I'm moving on to the next phase of my minimalist training, adding back in drop sets and myoreps--and hoping to get a bit more soreness! :P
Thanks so much! While I have your attention, what is the increased backstab look like? And do they have a section for adjudicating thief skills? I found the Carcass Crawler article on the issue to be very helpful, but I'm curious to see what the new version has to say.
Thanks for posting this as I hadn't seen it before. These updates are making me really excited, instantiating a lot of my current house rules as part of the core (even if only as options)!
In all seriousness, I think DOMS, soreness, whatever you want to call it, is kind of overrated as a metric. As long as you're able to add reps and/or weight and progressively overload, I think you're good to go.