LuisCarlos17f
Legend
Endless Quest gamebooks in the 80's, some sourcebooks of AD&D 2nd in the 90's. Nothing of 4th Ed.
D&D 5E Vestiges of the old!
Warpiglet-7
Cry havoc! And let slip the pigs of war!
I assume so?
I only play 5e and think it is very well designed. There are relatively few changes I would make to the core rules.
no one has yet said I am a philistine for liking to keep track of torches and arrows so I am happy to return the favor.
Helldritch
Hero
The red box, 1ed, BECMI, 2e and up to 5ed.
My games are deadly in the low levels but good players rarely die at high level because they make contingency plans in case of death.
Characters start from zeroes to heroes and we keep track of valuable components, amunitions and food. Having NPCs like henchmen and hirelings is still a thing (sidekicks are used) as promoting one to full PC is often the only way to get a new character upon the death of a low level one.
Foes are deadly and running away is often the only way to survive an other day. Players quickly learn to recognize when they are in way over their head and actually plan a way out beforehand.
I am an old style DM but have been accused by people not playing with me of being adversarial because of my style, yet my players call me the most cooperative DM they ever saw, go figure....
Player range from 27 to 52. My oldest player left to live in an other town with the love of his life and is now 67. My youngest just finished the university and copies my style because he loves it. Damn copy cats...
I play a variant of gritty realism and it suits my groups perfectly well.
My games are deadly in the low levels but good players rarely die at high level because they make contingency plans in case of death.
Characters start from zeroes to heroes and we keep track of valuable components, amunitions and food. Having NPCs like henchmen and hirelings is still a thing (sidekicks are used) as promoting one to full PC is often the only way to get a new character upon the death of a low level one.
Foes are deadly and running away is often the only way to survive an other day. Players quickly learn to recognize when they are in way over their head and actually plan a way out beforehand.
I am an old style DM but have been accused by people not playing with me of being adversarial because of my style, yet my players call me the most cooperative DM they ever saw, go figure....
Player range from 27 to 52. My oldest player left to live in an other town with the love of his life and is now 67. My youngest just finished the university and copies my style because he loves it. Damn copy cats...
I play a variant of gritty realism and it suits my groups perfectly well.
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Scribe
Legend
If people go looking for things to be upset, or be happy, about, they often find it.
All of this. I still dont get what I want out of Character creation, and its going in the wrong direction completely (up till this last UA!) but yeah, all of this is great.
Warpiglet-7
Cry havoc! And let slip the pigs of war!
Oooh! I think I would like to add more old fashioned morale!
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
A lot of what people talk about sort of exists in 5E, but is either skipped over, not widely used, or outright rejected by many newer players who lack the "old-schooL' upbringing on B/X and AD&D.
For "bloodied" hit points in 5E (PHB 197):
This however is merely descriptive and offers no in-game consequences for being a half hp. But combine it with morale (DMG 273):
And you could have something more useful IMO.
Anyway, like the OP I track ammunition, food, rest times, travel distance, light sources, spell components, and all the other things that "ground" the game so the magic and heroics seem more magical and more heroic.
Like others in 5E, darkvision is far from perfect and many times even creatures with darkvision will have a light source. Hiring NPCs and retainers to increase the size of the party, especially for tough challenges, is fairly expected.
One thing I don't like is PCs just gaining features as they level... in prior editions you didn't have a lot of features for the most part, and I think the idea of granting features as awards and in-game training would make them also seem more "real" to me.
For "bloodied" hit points in 5E (PHB 197):
This however is merely descriptive and offers no in-game consequences for being a half hp. But combine it with morale (DMG 273):
And you could have something more useful IMO.
Anyway, like the OP I track ammunition, food, rest times, travel distance, light sources, spell components, and all the other things that "ground" the game so the magic and heroics seem more magical and more heroic.
Like others in 5E, darkvision is far from perfect and many times even creatures with darkvision will have a light source. Hiring NPCs and retainers to increase the size of the party, especially for tough challenges, is fairly expected.
One thing I don't like is PCs just gaining features as they level... in prior editions you didn't have a lot of features for the most part, and I think the idea of granting features as awards and in-game training would make them also seem more "real" to me.
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Yeah... I didn't play 4e, but as I understand it, the "bloodied" condition often as not resulted in a boost to the monster effectiveness; whereas Morale was generally about fleeing/surrendering, iirc.
Combining the two ideas into some semi formal system opens it up a bit, so that taking X damage just results in a decision point, with either positive or negative outcomes for that creature. Great stuff if you want to just run baddies without worry of "playing favorites."
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