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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8726354" data-attributes="member: 8863">Never been particularly interested in the clones myself.&nbsp; It's like <a href="https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2267895#p2267895" target="_blank">I said over on Dragonsfoot recently</a>, they tend to come off as people's individual house rules for older editions of the game and that's very much a YMMV sort of thing.&nbsp; And WotC does have the originals available as well, though the clones tend to have better clarity and organization.Right now, I'm favoring 3e though, which pretty much means Pathfinder as a clone, and I'm not a big fan of Pathfinder.&nbsp; PF's main use for me is supplemental material for a 3e game.OSE doesn't look too bad, as it copies from B/X and has options for making the game something closer to AD&amp;D.&nbsp; As much as I think that the classic D&amp;D game from Moldvay to RC is more complete than AD&amp;D, it does have a few things I don't favor: race as class, cleric casting delayed until level 2, and only 3 alignments.&nbsp; OSE looks like it can function as a hybrid game not dissimilar to what many of us did up until about the mid 90s when 2e was all that was left.&nbsp; I've also taken a look at ACKS because it expands on D&amp;D's domain rules, and that's useful.&nbsp; I also like some of its ideas on campaign and world building, but that material seems harder to port.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8726354, member: 8863"] Never been particularly interested in the clones myself. It's like [URL='https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2267895#p2267895']I said over on Dragonsfoot recently[/URL], they tend to come off as people's individual house rules for older editions of the game and that's very much a YMMV sort of thing. And WotC does have the originals available as well, though the clones tend to have better clarity and organization. Right now, I'm favoring 3e though, which pretty much means Pathfinder as a clone, and I'm not a big fan of Pathfinder. PF's main use for me is supplemental material for a 3e game. OSE doesn't look too bad, as it copies from B/X and has options for making the game something closer to AD&D. As much as I think that the classic D&D game from Moldvay to RC is more complete than AD&D, it does have a few things I don't favor: race as class, cleric casting delayed until level 2, and only 3 alignments. OSE looks like it can function as a hybrid game not dissimilar to what many of us did up until about the mid 90s when 2e was all that was left. I've also taken a look at ACKS because it expands on D&D's domain rules, and that's useful. I also like some of its ideas on campaign and world building, but that material seems harder to port. [/QUOTE]

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