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my kids (8yo, 12yo, and 13yo) would disagree. lethality is very much a given if you fail to prepare and rush blindly into combat. However even then with con based death saves, rallying, and the first aid skill we have had zero killed PCs through most of the misty vale.

This is my main issue with discord, if its popular and busy its pretty much unusable unless you live on it 24-7.

Moderation is 100% on the sub reddit owners and most of the smaller ones are very well run. As for longevity I can still find posts from 10 years ago so not sure thats a problem.

Something I didn’t see anybody else mention on here is the dot community pages hosted by discourse. The only one I frequent is for mausritter and its quite good ( Tiny Tails: Mice & Dice Adventures ) it has all the forum discussions with some modern touches. Patreon integration is a big bonus.

You make it look easy though…

I find discord to be all but useless for anything other than sh*t posting and memes, actual discussion is nearly impossible. Reddit (really just a collection of forums) is better but forums are still the best IMHO for community building and discussions of any depth.

The lists on bluesky have been great for separating my often competing intrests.

Any company that uses paper is getting hit by tariffs, any company that produces in Canada, Mexico, China or Europe is getting hit by tariffs. That pretty much covers 99% of the hobby.

so when are you going to publish this under the 3rd party rules? It looks like a lot of fun.

its very, very incomplete

I may have bought the leatherette edition of the main rules just to have an extra copy of the main rules and totally not because its so pretty.

this is something I always do (hold over for playing a lot of Legend of the five rings 1e where keeping lower rolls could be very strategic).

especially since banes and boons stack! Conditions can really cause PCs huge problems if not taken care of quickly and what kind of GM would I be if I let them do that! lol

That was in the end how Tomas explained it on the FL forums, I am just a creature of my habits and like the felling of advantage being given to the more skilled PC.

during beta testing a bunch of us pushed for black jack style but ultimately lost, I still run my home game that way.

roughly the same starting HP as a 4th level B/X character, DB average is 12-13 and 4th level BX PC will average from 10-18 depending on class and luck of the roll (of course it can be as low as 4 and as high as 16 in B/X).Mages spells are close to a 5th level Magic user as well, with a MU having...

A goblin with a crit could kill just about any character in DB. Unlike class and level games (dnd and its myriad clones) DBs BRP heritage means combat is more grounded and all things being equal a highly skilled swords man dies just as fast as a farm when stabbed in the kidney. On the other side...

My approach to using OSR adventures with dragon bane is to assume a beginning DB character is equal to about a level 4 OSR/OSE/BX character thus far it has worked out pretty well.

This fixes most of my major complaints about the 1e version of blades, I especially like the switch to success as a default rather than failure with the threat roll. I think Harper might have read or played some into the odd, maybe we should call this blades in the odd. I still have a horrible...

my kids buy a tavern