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The Orcus conversion is pretty close to a 4e retroclone. But for OSR games, I really like Knave and Mausritter, but those are pretty stripped down classless versions, so not really 5e.
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Covermeinsunshine posted:What OSR game would you recommend for "d&d" fix? I do have Godbound(as far as osr goes) and Soulbound (as far as high fantasy goes)with are both good games, but recently I have been watching a lot of black dice society and similar actual plays, so would like to see what my options are in that corner. Old School Essentials has become the current standard in the OSR for a reason, though Basic Fantasy RPG is also a pretty good choice if you're on a budget since a physical copy of the core rules is only 5 bucks on Amazon, and Dungeon Crawl Classics is another good choice if you want something a bit more wild that also has some of the best adventure support of any RPG(plus Goodman Games has a really good value First Time Fan Kit that gives you everything you need to start playing for a dirt cheap price)
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Covermeinsunshine posted:What OSR game would you recommend for "d&d" fix? I do have Godbound(as far as osr goes) and Soulbound (as far as high fantasy goes)with are both good games, but recently I have been watching a lot of black dice society and similar actual plays, so would like to see what my options are in that corner.
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Serf posted:Part of the reason I buy and write so many random tables is that I like that aspect of discovery. Not knowing what is coming next, even as the GM, is a lot of fun for me. I have tons of tables that I keep open depending on the game and I use them constantly. Getting really weird results and trying to quickly figure out how they work is really great, especially for lighter games where I don't have to worry about lots of stats or mechanical depth. As a solo Ironsworn/Starforge fan, what are some of your favorite sources of random tables (doesn’t have to be for fantasy or sci-if though it is a plus)? The first one that comes to mind for me is the Tome of Adventure Design, though I’ve barely used it because, my gods, that’s a thick book. Got a compilation of the ones you’ve written? Random tables are cool.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Weird random question : when do you think number of people who knew a vancian magic system eclipsed number of people who were familiar with Vance’s books? Ignoring the name “vancian” for the question, just the system. I didn't know there was a dude named vance
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Xiahou Dun posted:Weird random question : when do you think number of people who knew a vancian magic system eclipsed number of people who were familiar with Vance’s books? Ignoring the name “vancian” for the question, just the system. I never heard it called a 'Vancian' system until well after 2000. Maybe even as late as the 4e rollout. Prior to that I mainly heard of it referred to as 'fire and forget' or just the D&D magic system. Unless you don't mean the name but just knowing of the system. Then yeah, early 1980s sounds right.
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The next time an AP author writes an open outside encounter like it's a dungeon with constrained boundaries.. The next time I hear "did you remember the song?" or "but aren't I sneaking?".. The next time we spend so long book-keeping that someone's playing Sonic Dash.. I guess I'll.. do nothing, because there is nothing else to do.
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Wait, PBTA is bad because some players mostly react to conflicts and a world controlled by the GM? That's the design. It's explicitly a system with clearly defined boundaries for narrative agency.
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thotsky posted:Wait, PBTA is bad because some players mostly react to conflicts and a world controlled by the GM? That's the design. It's explicitly a system with clearly defined boundaries for narrative agency. I have bad news. Much like Socialism, a lot of the criticism of PbtA in the world isn't coming from a standpoint of intellectual honesty. (Not that either one of those are some kind of holy ideals beyond criticism, as with many things I love I interrogate them incessantly, but a lot of the "critiques" I've heard of PbtA are about as true as the "health insurance lets you choose your own doctor"-canard.)
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I read through the Avatar Legends book at a friend's behest and while it's not my one true pbta love (that's Fellowship) it's very well written and a good introduction to pbta for people who might be first time gamers. I'm pretty impressed. A couple minor quibbles, most that are a matter of taste, of course.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I've liked GMing, but I haven't done it in a long time. A little late, but I want to jump in on the "I enjoy DMing" bandwagon. Lately I've actually found I generally enjoy DMing MORE than being a player. I'm also in the unusual position where most of the groups I play in have OTHER people who really like to GM in them, so I'm constantly having to fight for my place in the DM's chair. So for everyone who's lamenting their inability to find a reliable GM I regret to inform you it's because we're all playing in the same group...
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This just happened in our latest session All it does is scream like this constantly We enrolled it in Bard Class, and all the Death Metal kids are super interested in it.
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Farg posted:remember the what now That one guy at the table who has to remind everyone when a support ability is in play. Just had a very frustrating session realising how badly written an AP was and combined with not having slept properly and having listened to the news in March 2022 was not in a great mood. Why does high level play in so many of the tactical systems come down to a ton of extra book-keeping for a worse experience? You would think it would have been addressed by now.
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the fighter pushes over the stone at the end of the forest path. you see a 10' by 10' grove containing an orc, who is guarding a pie. there are standing stones in the centre of the north and west walls of densely-packed trees.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:that's just etrian odyssey without terrifying orbs tbh Even in D&D, F O E!!
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The itch.io Ukraine bundle is live! If you like video games and/or tabletop roleplaying games, you can get like a thousand of them with all proceeds going to charities supporting the victims of war in Ukraine. Minimum buy-in is only  but if you feel like paying more, you can.
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potatocubed posted:The itch.io Ukraine bundle is live! If you like video games and/or tabletop roleplaying games, you can get like a thousand of them with all proceeds going to charities supporting the victims of war in Ukraine. Minimum buy-in is only Just for SUPERHOT alone it's worth the
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potatocubed posted:The itch.io Ukraine bundle is live! If you like video games and/or tabletop roleplaying games, you can get like a thousand of them with all proceeds going to charities supporting the victims of war in Ukraine. Minimum buy-in is only They were so excited about MINIT they listed it twice.
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drrockso20 posted:Just for SUPERHOT alone it's worth the You're getting SUPERHOT and Baba Is You. Also, for anyone concerned about this (although I expect most would buy just to support the charity), there at at least 777 items here that weren't in the Racial Equality Bundle.
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This is mostly just a post because I need to make sure that when I'm in pain, everyone is in pain. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-dragonlance-krynn-unearthed-arcana/ Is there legitimately anyone who's deeply nostalgic for Dragonlance? Someone who desperately misses having kender in their campaigns? If there is I don't want to meet them because they must be deeply disturbed people.
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PurpleXVI posted:This is mostly just a post because I need to make sure that when I'm in pain, everyone is in pain. The original two trilogies have some nostalgic value for me and I've gone over the original modules recently and think they have potential. D&D doesn't really seem like the system for extracting it, though, and LOL those UA options are terrible. I'm really not sure who the audience is for any of these.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The original two trilogies have some nostalgic value for me and I've gone over the original modules recently and think they have potential. D&D doesn't really seem like the system for extracting it, though, and LOL those UA options are terrible. I'm really not sure who the audience is for any of these. The moon sorcerer is cool but will probably be streamlined because it's a mess mechanically
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Pulled the trigger on the Ukraine bundle and the trans rights in texas bundles and have already lost track of which things came from which, but so far .dungeon seems legitimately really fun? e: Let Me Take A Selfie gets mad points for creativity though as a person who takes selfies on a less than annual basis and always regrets it I can't imagine actually playing it. Aurora is another one that seems really creative and interesting.
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change my name posted:The moon sorcerer is cool but will probably be streamlined because it's a mess mechanically It has nothing to do with Dragonlance's moons and their relation to magic and alignment. Someone said "well, we need moons, and we need magic, let's see what we come up with".
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PurpleXVI posted:This is mostly just a post because I need to make sure that when I'm in pain, everyone is in pain. Well the Dragonlance novel Draconian Measures is still one of my favorite Fantasy novels, but then my list also has several Xanth novels on it so my taste is probably not worth poo poo
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Absurd Alhazred posted:The original two trilogies have some nostalgic value for me and I've gone over the original modules recently and think they have potential. As someone who reviewed the original modules for the F&F thread, I'm sorry but I have to tell you that you're wrong. The original modules are absolute dogshit in every way except for when you get a bear buddy and the writers forget to include him ever leaving, so the party gets a permanent bear buddy. The only decent approach, which I was made aware of by someone in the thread, was surprisingly enough the 3.x version where they completely took off the rails and just used the info in the modules and novels to bracket in the way the war would unfold free of interference, and then freed up the players to interact with it at their own pace and in their own order, hitting the major points that seemed important to them, perhaps even completely ignoring some of the worse ones.
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PurpleXVI posted:As someone who reviewed the original modules for the F&F thread, I'm sorry but I have to tell you that you're wrong. The original modules are absolute dogshit in every way except for when you get a bear buddy and the writers forget to include him ever leaving, so the party gets a permanent bear buddy. Libertad is over in the 5e thread talking about that stuff, mentioned your the other Dragonlance expert by virtue of having gone through the original modules.
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PurpleXVI posted:As someone who reviewed the original modules for the F&F thread, I'm sorry but I have to tell you that you're wrong. The original modules are absolute dogshit in every way except for when you get a bear buddy and the writers forget to include him ever leaving, so the party gets a permanent bear buddy. That's how I would do it if I were to use them for actually running, but the first one was all right, didn't seem as railroady as the next ones, and had Xak Tsaroth, an awesome dungeon.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:That's how I would do it if I were to use them for actually running, but the first one was all right, didn't seem as railroady as the next ones, and had Xak Tsaroth, an awesome dungeon. The original did have the stupidly dangerous dragon. But that could be more about how dangerous Dragons were in the early D&D. Anyway with this UA and Dragonlance getting a new novel. I predict a new Dragonlance setting book this year.
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PurpleXVI posted:As someone who reviewed the original modules for the F&F thread, I'm sorry but I have to tell you that you're wrong. The original modules are absolute dogshit in every way except for when you get a bear buddy and the writers forget to include him ever leaving, so the party gets a permanent bear buddy. I thought those DLE spinoff modules you reviewed sounded kinda alright, sorta whimsical and creative and even at times genuinely funny without getting overly twee and...Dragonlance-y, even if they were too easy. Except DLE3, that one sounded like unbearable garbage.
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Asterite34 posted:I thought those DLE spinoff modules you reviewed sounded kinda alright, sorta whimsical and creative and even at times genuinely funny without getting overly twee and...Dragonlance-y, even if they were too easy. What I will definitely give those modules is that it had an effect that animated people's skeletons... while still in their bodies, which was horrifying and very metal.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MALTSCHLITZMANN/status/1500230109252435969?cxt=HHwWgoCy9b7V8dEpAAAA
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Tulip posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/MALTSCHLITZMANN/status/1500230109252435969?cxt=HHwWgoCy9b7V8dEpAAAA Making my prediction, 30's: Sexy Turnips.
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