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Some folks seem way too upset that this isn't a 800 page 5.5E multiple campaign setting game book. You can't have thought that was even a possibility.

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Have you looked into Pathfinder 2E? Many people suggest it shares some qualities from 4E.

What is the motivation to restrict cantrips?

As I understand it, Old School Essentials is effectively B/X, so any of the hundreds of supplements for that game should be compatible.

Bumping with hope...

I feel like it is fairly common for folks to decide they are "done with D&D" at some point (or multiple points!) and to leave for other games. It is also fairly common IMO for those same people to eventually come back to D&D. So this thread is a place to talk about our experiences leaving D&D...

I have been using Fantasy grounds for years, and it is my preferred VTT for anything that needs maps and tokens. However, Dragonbane is not available on FG, and I happen to have DB for Roll20 witha extra cheap bundle from earlier this year. I am looking for recommendations for tutorials and/or...

I just wanted toc heck in on the update and mods: have things been resolved yet, or are we still stuck limited to non-F4SE mods?

We played our second full session of Fallout2d20 last night. I am running the intro scenario Once Upon a Time in the Commonwealth, but am forced to modify it more than a little. it is both too linear and quite a slog. For example, in the section where the PCs make their way to Diamond City...

Other way around: all scifi is fantasy, because it deals with things that don't exist. Not all speculative fiction is fantasy or sci-fi. For example, Handmaid's Tale is speculative fiction without either science fiction nor fantasy elements -- it simply speculates about what may happen under a...

I disagree. In the example we don't care about modeling stealth in a game that has no rules for it. We are getting to some potential result. The difference is in the latter we don't have to try and kludge together a set of rules about cover and lighting and perception, we just have to set a...

I think the point was that people want their characters to feel part of the world.

That's probably why I like it so much. I can't really get into actual Japanese anime because there are some storytelling tropes and narrative concepts that I never quite get, usually making the experience unsatisfying in some way or another. That said, anime as a broad term for that style of...

I don't understand this statement in the context of the discussion. We aren't talking about modeling anything. We are talking about setting stakes and consequences within a specific one off context.

Why? Nothing else in play does that.

But as I said, you start with the result you want to see. If you do that you can't end up with a ridiculous result.

I simply disagree. There is never a reasonable excuse to intentionally include a "crappy result" as an outcome. It's counterproductive to the whole process. What the hell are you doing if you think an unsatisfying, anticlimactic, boring result is a reasonable outcome?

I trust that players can come up with all sorts of goofy crap I did not see coming.

This is where understanding the core system and being a competent adjudicator come in. If this situation comes up, the first thing to do is figure out what you want out of the attempt and resolution, then leverage what you do have to achieve that for that moment in play. Your absolutely are NOT...