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I'm running two concurrent small campaigns using OSE. I've seen some variant rules here and there, one of which caught my eye: Characters do damage based on their HD. So, a fighter does d8, a cleric d6, and a wizard or thief d4. The way it was pitched was this reflected training. So any...

Yup! We're running the old school "party" set up - characters, hirelings, and henchmen. If someone dies in media res (i.e. dungeon), then the player can grab their henchmen or hireling and keep going, effectively stepping into the character's shoes (who knows, maybe that former NPC becomes the...

We play OSE, and I have the players roll up several characters at session 0, or at least have the rolls done, and such. Character creation in OSE is super simple though, especially at low levels, it’s pretty plug and play, so it’s an easier ask overall. I found 5e to be long and tedious for...

Iirc, in the Greyhawk From the Ashes box, specialty priests used the normal cleric xp table, but certain specialty priests (I guess from their abilities) would have an extra 5% or 10% added to their xp charts, so certain priests would need more xp than others. Likewise, they were specific under...

The other reason healing took so long, was they were effectively playing a "west marches" type of group play. Remember, from reports, Gygax's group was about 50 people... If you went out on an adventure, other groups were out adventuring too in the same world. If you got injured, you couldn't...

I tried that whittling away, but it was more like wrestling, it was exhausting. I gave up on it, and we moved to an earlier edition.

I used that exact mechanic in my last campaign in 5e (if you fall to 0, you gain a level of exhaustion). It worked very well. If people yoyo'd in fights, they paid for it. It did cause my players to consider and think about their fatigue levels, and whether they wanted to press on or not. It...

Wait... parachute pants were a fad? :oops: As someone who started playing DnD in grade school in, wait for it, 1981, our group lived the satanic panic. Actually, our forever DM (who we still play DnD with), had a family member who constantly sent his mom pamphlets and other propaganda about...

A "death spiral" isn't actually a thing in the game. There is no reason mechanically or story-wise that a death spiral should occur. I interpret death spiral to mean "I don't want anything in the game that might limit my character from doing whatever I want." Heaven forbid we lost hit points...

I think this "death spiral" malarky is just a screen to say "I don't want things to change" or "I like the system the way it is" or "Wounds are fine and 5e is the best thing since sliced bread." The only way you end up in a death spiral is if you continue to press on when you get injured, or...

Awesome. I'm re-booting my 2e Greyhawk campaign to use Old School Essentials Advanced (still on VTT). Going to include exploration, resource management, random encounters, resting rules, etc. We are also playing in a separate Basic/Expert/OSE game, and loving the simplicity, the lack of...

Hello and Welcome! I would direct you to the Wizard's of the Coast "Basic Rules" set. Free of charge from their site Basic D&D Rules | Dungeons & Dragons That should get you started. Edit... and ninja'd.. :ROFLMAO:

We started Basic (after several years of 5e, starting with the pandemic - 1980s players picking it up on VTT), played it for a couple months, then quickly rolled into OSE for its clarity, organization, and simplicity. Everyone appreciated how quick a turn was, how the character sheet didn't...

We're playing in a couple different B/X games at the moment, and my players are finding Turn Undead to be gold. That being said, some ideas would be to possibly grab some of the low level spells, like Protection from Evil, Detect (magic, object), maybe Light (stationary) that can be held for...

Points buy for 5e 4d6 Drop the Lowest for 2e.

Pretty much my experience as well. If this doesn't include character Gen rules (ie if they haven't been changed at all from core 5e), then there is no reason for me to pick this up, and I love 'starter sets'.

I'm not a serious Greyhawk fan, but for me (who just started DMing a 2e campaign in Greyhawk), if they played up those elements in a new release, I wouldn't buy it or touch it with a ten foot pole, because I'm not interested in 5e anymore, its moved away from how I like to play in, and run my...

Highlighted the problem with how they explained (or didn't explain) their thinking. If the whole point of "encounters" is to drain resources, then having social encounters doesn't do that, unless for some reason the party is casting maybe one spell (Charm? Zone of Truth? Similar?), but how...

Significantly less WOTC stuff across the board, bordering on none, but I will pick up 3PP books and things that I find interesting, or fit a theme I'm looking for, etc. I'm also very unlikely to buy anything from their 5.5 release, unless they significantly shake things up, which I don't...

I think some examples are fine, but in this case I agree with @Oofta, there is no way to cover every eventuality that might come up in play. And if you’re really ‘respecting the fiction’, then you shouldn’t be rolling that much anyway. Player (thief): I want to climb the wall of the building...