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The second one here is SO much better. :)

Header in the new version is definitely an improvement. I think I like the text of the original a little better in terms of pure aesthetics but that the new one is a little more readable?

How's that going?

Just saw that Play Tabletop Games and Find Game Masters | StartPlaying has a fun promo right now. "Shadowdark mode only works on desktop. When you click the bar at the top of the page to activate dark mode, "Shadowdark Mode" is revealed." If you enable this mode, follow the clues around their...

Pretty sure the thread is mistitled and it's led to some confusion. The author of the GiantFreakinRobot story seems to be trolling us or to have a profound disability or language barrier impairing their auditory comprehension, and @trappedslider has inadvertently echoed and extended the error.

I heard that @zenopus ' "Party of Balrogs" adventures at GaryCon have been market research for said series.

Mr. Nancy is one of the cooler characters from American Gods, especially in his TV incarnation with Orlando Jones playing him.

It's not a 15 year cutoff. You misread "of the 21st century". RP1 is 15 years old. The linked list is of novels published since 2000 and which have been rated on Goodreads at least a thousand times. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4893.Best_Science_Fiction_of_the_21st_Century The Martian...

That's a quote from 2E, so maybe Zeb Cook, rather? Yup. There were some definite exploits possible (especially with 1st level spells, due to multiplicative formulae), but in general powerful items did tend to still be expensive and time-consuming to make. Just not nearly as much so as in AD&D...

Despite having read the former and not the latter, I'm sure you're more likely to be correct.

Or "Danish, WW2 resistance fighter, portal fantasy'd to fantasy medieval Europe", but that one had a fancy horse (Papillion!) too.

I feel like Kelsey's take is constrained a bit by not wanting to step on the Fighter's toes, of course. And wanting to generally fill the vibe of a classic AD&D Paladin without being broken, mechanically. The Paladin's warhorse was always a thing in OD&D and AD&D. The mounted Knight in...

I'm not quite clear on it either. @Whizbang Dustyboots could you expand on that a bit? Do you see a mechanical issue with it, like a warhorse not being practical in a game you see as being focused on dungeon-crawling? Or is it more of a vibes thing, getting a free magic sword not lining up...

I mean, mostly they CAN'T. Gygax stacked the deck to make it impractically onerous to make or commission new items, which as Celebrim pointed out, incentivizes PCs to go adventure and find items instead. Which per D&D's implicit setting are generally from some fallen Golden Age of Magic, or...

Right; I know that the Perrin Conventions for combat were originally to add a bunch more structure to OD&D combat (which had almost none; not even an initiative system), and that some of the concepts/procedures originally laid out there (like Strike Ranks) became part of the mechanics of RQ...

I like the revision. True to the original with some cleanup, and a power bump with spells known and spell slots for higher Int, plus the mechanic to increase Int over time with level. I like the inclusion of cantrips in addition to "real" spells but that they're finite usage rather than...

I think playing a paladin-type/on tactical hard mode does have its place as a niche in the OSR. The OSE Advanced Knight class is this, and the Paladin to a lesser extent. Both are deliberately written to be more playable than the 1E equivalents, of course. Mythic Bastionland is a whole...

I did initially suggest in the montage that she might have taken a week or two at least in mourning before the guild was trying to get her back in the saddle. :LOL: But yeah.

RuneQuest, really? Palladium FRP definitely, but the RuneQuest I'm familiar with is the progenitor of Basic Roleplay System (same core as Call of Cthulhu). It DOES have ability scores mostly on a 3-18 scale (with 5 of the 7 overlapping with D&D), but it's a % skill-based system rather than...