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ShortQuests -- Pocket Sized Adventures! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed for 1-2 game sessions.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9871378" data-attributes="member: 19675">Context: My 2 favorite RPG systems are HERO and 3.5Ed D&D.My experiences with HERO go all the way back to when it was introduced as Champions, and over time, I’ve gotten to where I can essentially model whatever I want in it.With 3.5Ed, I think D&D found its sweet spot of a myriad of options coupled with retaining most of the sacred cows that made D&D stand out from other FRPGs.So, I like both types of game systems.Basically, I’ll play almost any FRPG.  But if I want to play D&D in particular, I’m looking to play 3.5Ed or its closest cousins (Pathfinder, Arcana Evolved, True20, FantasyCraft, Midnight 2Ed, and so forth).*There’s a couple other games that I treat similarly, like Paranoia!, Deadlands, and Traveller.  If I’m designing a campaign for almost anything else, though, I’m reaching for HERO.CAVEAT: if I know of an extant game that already models what I’m thinking about, I WILL check it out to see if it would work better than what I could do in HERO.  For example, if I really wanted to run a RIFTS game, I probably wouldn’t want to use HERO to do it.  Modeling the difference between Damage and MegaDamage is a headache I don’t want.**  * I did figure out a way to do D&D 1-4Ed in HERO, but I never ran it beyond a couple of simulations.  The point of the design was to let players run the D&D race & class combinations they preferred regardless of original edition within one rules framework.  The issues with doing so were more on the player side than the mechanics.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏾‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fe-2642.png" title="Man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone    :man_shrugging_tone4:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />** I have given it some thought, figured out some possible solutions, and rejected them all.</blockquote>

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