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Necromancer Games' Tombs of Abysthor (heavily modified) I'm also a fan of some obscure Dungeon modules that I've used a few times: "Invisible Stalker" - really just an encounter, but with the right villain, can last an entire session. (also fairly heavily modified) "Nightshade" - again fairly...

I certainly love seeing 3rd party publishers do well, but am I alone in wondering what all the fuss is about with Shadowdark? I looked at it a while back when I was looking for an alternative RPG for a Ravenloft campaign I was going to run, and all the SD fanboys couldn't resist fawning over it...

Some good ideas in here. I might steal a few of these. What I have is pretty similar, but I like some of your stuff around reduced healing factor, and adding exhaustion levels.

10 years is an impressive time! I actually finished a campaign of my own a few years ago. I was 17 months of bi-weekly play at 4 sessions. So, about 136 total hours. They got to level 13. I designed that campaign to kind of wrap up around 12th level. In the end, they kept basically going...

I found a pretty good one on Reddit. I use some houserules that basically change how hp at 0 work. I didn't like death saves. So instead, when you hit 0, you are conscious, but go prone, and suffer a lingering injury. You can choose from a limited number of options like disengaging, drinking...

Oh yea, it's not FR-specific at all. I was mainly just curious, really.

Obviously ChatGPT isn't the final arbiter of such things, but this echoes what my assumptions on the matter already were.

Are there unofficial Forgotten Realms novels??

If I wanted to write a novel, what are the license legalities involved? I suppose there's some prestige associated with publishing a "Forgotten Realms" novel, but I would imagine such a thing would have to be officially licensed, yea?

I've got some houserules around going to 0, and they involve the "Lingering Injury" table on pg. 272 of the (2014) DMG. It's... lackluster. Anyone got anything that would work better than this that might have a lot more variety to it?

This is a multi-faceted problem. The economics of D&D make absolutely no sense. A peasant supposedly earns just a few silver per day, yet a dragon might have 10s of thousands of gold in a hoard just a few miles away. This begs the question - where the heck did the dragon get all that from?? A...

Honestly, I think all the first 5 options apply to me. Also, I love fantasy role-playing. So, if I didn't play D&D, I'd probably play something like Valiant, or Draw Steel, or DC20, or Low Fantasy Gaming, or something along those lines. I'd be unlikely to switch to Star Wars or Shadowrun - not...

My Ex (formerly, my wife) grew up in Nevada, MO. Clearly, Salt and Pepper seems to be confined to western Missouri. So interesting.

I wanted to share my thoughts on an old module I've used, and am planning on using again, that's a hidden gem. There are several of these in Dungeon magazines (hidden gems, that is), that I think are mostly over-looked, but that are actually really good, and even spectacular with a bit of work...

I've on a similar path as the OP. I don't hate 5e, but I certainly hate WoTC, so after basically a lifetime of playing D&D almost exclusively, I've also been in the market for something different. I run 3 games, and play in another one, and 2 of the ones I run are 5e, with no plans to switch...

Are folks in this thread there? Someone made a comment about how only older people were at Gen Con. I mean, I guess there's always been some aspect of "financially secure enough to afford the brazen expenditures required to get on a plane and play games for four days" which kind of lends itself...

Ooh, I forgot about WEG Star Wars. Played some of that back in the day. Only had a few of the books, and they seem to have disappeared, unfortunately. :(

Oh, maybe it was R. Talsorian. I didn't actually own it, it was my friends. But god we had a lot of fun with that. I actually wrote a Pascal program in college to help make characters for it. I got to meet the designer behind HARP, and attempted doing some writing for them, but they weren't...