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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mournblade94" data-source="post: 9885804" data-attributes="member: 74608">I think 5e plays close to 1st edition and I love it for that.  I have not commited to 5.5 because of getting rid of half races for coocoo  reasons, and I don't like the backgrounds.  They seem to definitely be doing more story time than game though with 2024 and I worry that is made more for the AP Performing Art than people that actually play the game.  Yes that was some seriously lame art, not as bad as Desert Prickly Pear harvesters or Wearing open toes in a Dwarven Forge.  My problem with the character art was it looked like people I used to play with at LARPS.  Just like modern people in costumes.  I have been able to do a lot with 5e.  I have enough rules mastery that I can grab any of my AD&D Modules and run them for 5e with converting everything on the fly.  The 5e AD&D Modules conversions are pretty good as well.  When I want to link old AD&D Modules I check first to see if it is in an anthology.  Tomb of Horrors was not NEARLY as deadly but that is OK because I linked it as a major adventure site for a POST Out of the Abyss campaign.  I've run that module at least 10 times so it was fun using the Yawning Portal version.Honestly the setting books are better than the Core books.  Even the parts of the Setting Books I really don't like such as Calimshan had appropriate art.  I would just pay extra money not to have those little Snippets of Xanathar talking or Fizban Talking in books.  Forgotten Realms had SOME of that but it was not nearly as intrusive as Tasha's, Xanathar, or Dragons.</blockquote>

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