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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 8564536" data-attributes="member: 6871653">I must say, SotDL is everything I wish 5e would be.The biggest selling points, to me are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ancestry matters more than at first level only, mechanically speaking.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thematically grouped magic spells instead of schools.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">less ability scores and vaguer ''skills''.</li> </ul>And some things I've ported to my 5e games:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">equipment proficiency based on STR score, making Dex a little less all-encompassing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">stacking advantages and disadvantages.</li> </ul>And things I dislike:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1000 different conditions that more or less just give one Bane.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sanity rules and the Horrifying (?) trait for monsters making that your character goes mad pretty easily.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cringy juvenile elements (to my taste) in many parts of the rules and setting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The lack of classic fantasy, generally due to the fact that the basic setting in pretty ingrained in the rules.</li> </ul>(I hear that Shadow of the Weird Wizard, Schwalb next book, will rework some of these issues)</blockquote>