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I'm certainly not going to be able to maintain my secret identity for very long. Especially if I'm doing good things with my powers. On the other hand, with Superman's powerset? They still teach physics at West Point; I'm not good at math myself, but even I can look up a high-ranking military...

Certainly not the 2e supplements. I'm speaking in the context of an AD&D 1e clone, like OSRIC, where the supplemental classes come from all of two books, unless you wanted to nick some Best of Dragon material. The only 2e supplemental material I'd want to include in a 1e clone would be a quick...

I've wanted to do it myself, but I never landed it. (I've tried.) I'm doing something similar now, but it's too far removed from D&D to really appeal to the retroclone fandom.

It's PF1, and it's based on superspeed instead of teleportation, but you might find this helpful: Accelerist Always wanted to rock one of these in a 3.PF Gestalt game-- Magus|Accelerist into the Swiftblade PrC from the old WotC site.

I'm not judging. I just don't have positive associations with the stuff; I don't like the way it smells or tastes, I don't like sticky things on my skin, and between poor health and poorer lifestyle, it's ruined a lot of my favorite clothing. If the cyberpunk dystopia I live in weren't so much...

I am... really not a fan of "blood magic" and vampire stuff, but Tzimisce and Vicissitude are basically the #1 class I want to play in D&D. Healing and aspirational body horror.

Replacing Descending AC and THAC0 with Ascending AC and BAB is a far cry from making it some kind of hybrid game; it is a far less significant change than replacing the Attack Matrix and Weapon versus Armor Table with THAC0 in the first place. Replacing WP and NWP with skills and feats would be...

I didn't think that a thread about a project In Progress would be an appropriate place for my reply-- but I wanted to respond to this from the perspective of an AD&D and retroclone fan. And an AD&D fan from whom the "AD&D gang" doesn't particularly want to hear much, either. I have... a lot of...

I... mostly play D&D because D&D does most of what I want from an RPG most of the time. I like its gameplay loop, I like a lot of its mechanical assumptions. Most of the "Not D&D" that I play or try to write isn't... "Not D&D" so much as it's an attempt to stretch D&D a little bit. I want D&D to...

Of course, my settings for Octal Heart mess with this a lot. The default setting is... more or less JRPG Spelljammer, so elves/dwarves/gnomes, goblinoids, various yokai/yaoguai. (So it doesn't count for this thread.) Elves are wu xing elementals, dwarves are miniature space (true) giants, gnomes...

I'm... doing this twice. Concurrently. One's a 3.PF thought experiment in... mechanical worldbuilding. The other's a house system I'm designing for the OSR/NSR community, with a JRPG spelljammer-ish default setting, to support a couple of my BIG WIP settings. The Big Dumb Thought Experiment is...

Meh. It's not my favorite edition of D&D by far, but it's still my favorite WotC edition. I may not have liked it because of all of the AD&D and 3.X character concepts it invalidated at launch and then never managed to support-- but like every edition before it, the characters that people loved...

It's weird to me that people are saying Nightcrawler isn't a valid idea for a D&D character or class, especially with his longer range teleportation abilities being clipped. Like, wasn't the Eladrin Swordmage exactly that for almost a whole edition?

Can't stand most card or board games and it's not for lack of trying; the closer a boardgame gets to being a wargame, the better the chances I'll tolerate it. But wargames have their own problems... since I don't have the hands or the eyes or the patience for most of the craftwork behind them...

For sure. I'm not going to argue that it's necessary or best practices, but if you're going to insist on "fair dice" as an umpire-- and I'm speaking as an umpire-- mercy for players that lose the lottery is admirable, and kneecapping players who "win" by the rules you established is inexcusable...

It's "funny". Characters with extremely low stats are good comic relief, right?

Yeah. I've rolled a handful of 6s over the years, but never a 3. One time, on 4d6k3, I managed to roll a character whose high score was an 8, literally unplayable, because it didn't qualify for any player class. Instead of giving me a mulligan, the DM bumped the 8 to a 9, so I could qualify for...

Misread this at first! While we're talking about the  sportsmanship of players who want to roll stats as long as they always roll above average-- and my preference for high stats not withstanding, I agree-- can we talk about the DMs that want to insist on random rolls, insist on players rolling...

Problem is, I generally want to play my inner gonzo idiot with really strong senses and inhuman determination. In my experience, the correlation between willpower and common sense with high Wisdom is the inverse of real life. I feel like the disconnect between this sentiment and...

This is true, and people say it a lot, but it's not true in the sense that people say it. Character flaws make characters interesting. Foibles, blindspots. Things that cause characters to make mistakes and errors in judgement, things that make them imperfect human beings. The sort of thing, in...