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I still rewatch it every year or two, I'm sure a lot of it is nostalgia but I still love it. Fantastic stuff. And yeah the cast is dynamite.

I think it's basic in that it's foundational, a classic, as far as 3e stuff goes anyway. Like Forge of Fury.

This was my Odyssey, I'm interested to see another attempt at it.

Have to be careful though, because if the name gets TOO popularized/generic then you risk losing your trademark 😂

In fact, thanks to The Elusive Shift (which was incredibly well-researched), we know that there wasn't uniformity in playstyle. edit: oh hey, Snarf did a review of The Elusive Shift.

Yeah, zines like Different Worlds, and Alarums and Excursions, had this kind of discourse and advice in them- people writing to one-another responding to letters published in previous zine issues. The advice was being given, but you're not gonna find internet-level knowledge distribution...

The book heavily recommends doing it. That's probably why people think it's an integral part. Also the character creation process assumes you're doing it. It's presented as optional only so much as the book says "hey you're thinking about skipping the funnel? You should really do it." And I can...

Yeah there are a bunch of things that I don't love about 5e24, but I never had a problem with clerics/paladins/warlocks not picking their deity/oath/patron til level 3. I could rationalize it; maybe WotC could've included their own rationale with a line or two of text in the book? Can't say it's...

That is nuts to me. Scary nuts. Wow. Gemini seems to be topping out most other options at the moment.

What sold me on DCC originally was sitting down at a demo table and being handed a 3rd level wizard pregen. The magic was so interesting and cool and magical, not a science like DnD's is. Mighty Deeds of Arms is another great point, warriors can do cool things in a fight. My regret? Running a...

Grabbed :)

To build on this, I think modern DnD sourcing its saving throws directly from stats is one reason low stats are particularly awful. Another being how important they are in 5e, which is sort of a consequence of the flat math, and how they’re expected to be increased over levels via ASIs, rather...

I was checking the thread to see the Die Hard answers 😆 Rankin Bass Rudolph is my #1 Christmas nostalgia movie.

To be fair, that question comes up for just about every modification of DnD rules, and the answer is almost always “because we want to play DnD, not OSE/Shadowrun/Shadowdark/Deadlands/40k,” which translates to “we like/know the dnd system and don’t want to learn anything else.”

I don't have time to play, but I'm always happy to page through stuff like this if you're looking for feedback. Or just to let me see take a gander! Or potentially playtest certain modules aspects at my own tables ;)