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    OSR Question about OSE's box sets

    The box sets are helpful for players because you can hand the spell/character books to your players and hold onto the treasure/monster books for yourself. Its easier to physically pass things like the spell books around the table for the player that needs it rather than everyone competing over...
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    Pathfinder 2E I think I am giving up on PF2ER

    What do you mean by 'play fast and loose'?
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    Pathfinder 2E I think I am giving up on PF2ER

    You don't need to know everything starting out - internalize the most important items and start playing. There's no shame in quickly looking things up as you go. You shouldn't have to learn everything on your own. Your players should be putting in equivalent effort to learn to play rather...
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    Pathfinder 2E I think I am giving up on PF2ER

    I run it analog all the time, its pretty easy for me.
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    Pathfinder 2E I think I am giving up on PF2ER

    Understandable - its a specific kind of game that appeals to a specific playstyle, not a system that everyone will love.
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    D&D General Top 5 Best Non-WotC adventures?

    The PF2 version is excellent. I can run it with zero modifications. I'd assume the 5e version is comparable quality.
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    D&D General GenCon TV: Celebrating D&D

    The 3e roundtable was extremely interesting+insightful and the actual one shot is just kinda... slow and lame and bad.
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    OSR This tells me OSR is alive and well.

    They fit perfectly in when a common B/X party has Elves, Magic Users, and Clerics with magic, and the fighter has a talking sword.
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    OSR This tells me OSR is alive and well.

    Take a look at the popular, modern OSR modules written for Old School Essentials. Its lots of small, self-contained dungeon crawls, smaller-scale sandbox hexcrawls, and a handful of Megadungeons, mostly all lower level. Nobody really writes anything for Domain Level play, and Mid/High level...
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    OSR This tells me OSR is alive and well.

    This is why my favorite way to run the thief is that their skills are Supernaturally Beyond what anyone can attempt. Anyone can hide, a thief can hide in shadows - in plain sight, no cover. Anyone can climb a wall - a thief can climb a sheer surface. A thief can climb a perfectly smooth...
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    Asymmetrical Complexity in RPG Design

    This is effectively how Cypher System works.
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    WotC WotC can, and probably should support multiple editions of D&D.

    Why would they ever want to compete with themselves lol
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    D&D 5E (2014) New Monster Manual Cover

    I'm a fan of this design, excited to see the Alt cover.
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    What RPG Do You Wish Had A Retroclone?

    Hard agree. WEG star wars 1st ed is simple and great, but d6 Space is an unwieldy mess.
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    PaizoCon 2024 Announcements and Product Reveals

    There's already enough PF1 content published to last a dozen lifetimes, without even considering all the legacy content from 3.0/3.5 which is 90% compatible.
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    D&D General Ignoring the rules!

    I've removed passive perception.
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    D&D General Planning a D&D editions tour

    How long do you want each "module" to take? KotB, for example, will likely take 4-8 sessions to play through.
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    OSR Looking for a set of OSR rules with more (more granular) combat options?

    Rather than an enumerated list of specific combat options, let players describe the actions they want to take and adjudicate accordingly. Assign penalties and bonuses ad-hoc. If something is too good, adjust. If something becomes a common tactic, codify it in your own campaign doc.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 75 Feats -- not nearly enough

    75 feats is about 75 too many.
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