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That's 13th Age approach; Heinsoo and Tweet suggest that the mechanical effects of the heal-up (13A name for long rests, after three nasty battles or equivalent) correlate with events in the game world. In my experience it works very well in general, but sometimes it may feel strained and contrived.

Nice thread! 2e was the longest edition I have ever DMed continuously. And I still love it. Coming straight from BECMI, I planned to move to 2e as soon as it was published. But since I was young and naive (17), I only bought the 2e DMG at the start, because I was always the DM, and the players...

Awesome thread! Good luck with your game, Yora! Just for context, I share pretty much all your reservations regarding 3.0 vs. 3.5/PF. I agree the feel is definitely different; the things I like more: no pokemon warhorses for paladins; no spontaneous summoning spells for druids; no magical animal...

Have you found such a place? I have been itching to run a 3.0 campaign for ages! EDIT: sorry for the double post, the browser crashed while I was typing the first post so I re-posted it.

Hi, have you find such a place? I have been itching to get back to 3.0 for ages!

Spellcasters never dominated my games, for two reasons: 1- random encounters; the DMG (at least the 3.0 version) was pretty explicit about the role that random encounters play in the game. With random encounters, the DM controls the pace of resources expenditure, not the players. For the same...

I started with the Red Box back in the day, and "updated" to 2e when it came out, and that's the version I played most, but I had the bad idea of buying and using the Player's Option books, which destroyed our campaign pretty quickly and left a bad taste in our mouths. We liked the idea of the...

I think the distinction many people make is between surprise tout court, and complete surprise, which is mentioned more than once by Gygax. So I guess this could explain how to use the information of surprise for monsters which rely on a percentage chance; that would simply be the probability of...

Kris those minis are wonderful! Herewith another potential convert from ToTM :D Cheers, Antonio

Note sure it has been mentioned, but the Immortals Set for Classic D&D has a very nice initiative system, which I have used since...forever, even from Basic-level games. In short, it splits actions into two tiers: A: movement, missile weapons, use of magic items B: spellcasting, turn undead...

Anyone knows how Modiphius' Trek game compares to the Last Unicorn Games Trek? LUG TOS, in particular. Which rules are simpler? What about completeness? I have LUG TOS and I quite like the fact that the game covers everything from exploration to starship combat to setting information in one volume.

Both in 4e and 2e the Sorcerer Kings are very powerful, but none of them achieved Dragon status, which both in 2e and 4e is an Epic Destiny (in 2e these epic characters are detailed in the Dragon Kings expansion). Similarly for becoming Avangion or Pyreen; these creatures, together with the...

It is applied pretty consistently, yes. Even with basic attacks, the classes which are supposed to be proficient in a given combat form inflict damage (equal to level) on a miss.

In order of importance (to me): - TotM - Making feats optional (or at least a smaller number of them, and making them more relevant) - Optional magic items - Reduced level span Most of these have been addressed in one way or another in 13A, which is now my go-to successor to 4e.

Ah, my thought exactly. The third one seems an Hollander; the first one, no idea.

I am a G2-G3, depending on the scenario and rules. I always keep in mind I am playing a game, first and foremost, so the rules are important insofar as they "enforce" a vision of the setting in virtue of the reality the help model. I see both Story and Rules in a feedback loop, where the...

I know; still, the issue is there. I have run a Birthright campaign with 5e, and trying to adapt the spells for use in mass battles, I compared the effects of 2e spells with 5e spells. Out of all the spells that in 2e are considered "valid" in mass battles, only one or two made the cut in their...

In my experience of giving modern versions of D&D (from 3e onward) an "old-school" feel, an essential aspect is limiting the race/class combinations, at least when playing in "classic" settings like Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance and Greyhawk. Also, no monster races as PCs, except of the "half-"...

Indeed. Look at the BECMI Cleric, which gets spells simply by adhering to alignments/beliefs. In fact, if I am going to run the Known World with 5e, I'll have clerics to just that.

That's brilliant. It reminds me of a player in my game who did something similar in a D&D 3.0 campaign; I used the variant "Learning New Spells" in the 3.0 DMG, which required sorcerers to strike a bargain with some entity. His patron was a Ki-Rin, and they didn't have the same alignment...with...