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Nod, new editions are a tax imho.

I have never chosen to “stick with” 5e because I don’t like 5e. My feelings for it are: “Meh, I’ve seen worse, and I’ve seen better.” I DM 3.5e. I play 5e 2024, because that’s the preference of a DM I’m a player under. Play but not DM means I don’t give it much of my attention or any of my...

Seems like we could (and may) argue until the end of time about “What is role playing?” But are there people who simply do not care if they win the board game and are not particularly interested the official goals/winning conditions, but are instead are playing as a certain character simply...

Not the main topic, but I only did 4e (and 5e) as a player, not a DM. AD&D and 3x inspired me to DM. A major memory for me of 4e is that our DM bought POG like colored poker chips to go under the minis to indicate the conditions applied to them. We didn’t get super high in level, but some...

If you have a large number of players, you can win at Risk by getting a card every turn and waiting it out as the others batter themselves. “Laying low looking innocent in your unassailable fortress simply getting a card every turn, cashing in cards for a pile of armies, destroying opponent...

Close to what you have, I think. From 3.5e: PHB DMG MM, FF, and selected monsters from later MM’s and even other editions if I as DM want it or it’s in a module I’m using. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer Legends & Lore (selected pantheons) A few rules from other books or homebrewed. From Unearthed...

It’s also a foolish way to play Diplomacy. 3 words: iterative prisoner’s dilemma. That said, last time I played Diplomacy (in 1991!), I was assigned France and decided to roleplay as a revolutionary “protecting” the small powers and attacking autocracies. The constitutional monarchies of...

Similar. For me it’s AD&D 1e adventure compatibility; Greyhawk compatibility; the ability to pull in anything I want from across AD&D, 2e, Basic, PF1, d20 3rd party stuff, and to a lesser extent 5e; and yes “simulationist” feel. 3.x without the splat bloat (never allowed in games I played in or...

There are a metric ton of good short adventures in Dungeon. But none of it it is 5e, so you’d have to convert or play a different edition. For my last one shot, I ran the Fast Play Game, repeated in Dungeon 70-72. It’s for a simplified version of 2e, but I ran it in 3.5e. I think it took...

WotC killed 3x with splatbooks for CharOp. TSR killed 2e with splatbooks and an unsupportable large number of settings. So far, 5e has been more restrained.

I agree. It’s what I still run. The core rules are great and super flexible, and it’s compatible enough with what came before - I run mostly AD&D and Basic adventures. The do anything easily aspect of 3x - easy to use a monster as a PC, easy to import d20 stuff from other genres if you want...

Oh yes. In Lord of the Rings Risk, I choose green and proceeded to collect the Elven lands with no interest in actual winning conditions. My friend Mat guessed what I was up to. In Game of Thrones Risk, I add the Valar Morgulis card to a deck that’s used a lot. When it comes up, game over...

Or “the D&D setting” = Forgotten Realms, as general media seems to assume. For me, FR is only properly the very well publicized Realms: the Sword Coasts, the dales, and in a pinch nearby places like Cormyr. Is Al-Qadim FR? If it’s anything, yes, but will we ever see it promoted by WotC...

News to me. I missed the IKEA and the Ranch 99 on the Nentir Vale maps. :p

I dunno.

Today, I download the 2 (of 3 ever made) Jakandor books available on DriveThruRPG. Jakandor: Isle of War is the Knorr book. Jakandor: Land of Legends is the overall DM book, not fully baked without the others. The missing book is called Jakandor: Isle of Destiny. It’s the Charonti book. It’s...

I wonder what game system they were using? With Waterdeep mentioned, perhaps some form of D&D 5e, as that’s sometimes assumed to be “the” RPG. But I wonder if there were rules at all?

Same. The groups I DM are mostly recruited from people I know outside gaming. I would say D&D is useful for maintaining and sometimes deepening friendships, though. Census time. Of 9 active players across 2 email campaigns I DM, I met 7 outside D&D. I’d say 4 are truly friends, 1 an in-law...

I don’t understand the topic (or question) either, but if the premise is 5e is “meh” in some ways compared to many other versions of D&D that are in some ways better, I probably agree.

If I recall correctly, the collective term for what’s now the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia etc. is Austronesia. Along with Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, maybe it’s all Oceania? But I guess for historical connection reasons, Austronesia and the rest of the First Island Chain are...