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I believe the top ones that aren't 5e D&D are, by volume of players, in no particular order: Pathfinder (both editions) Call of Cthulhu (all editions) D&D (All editions other than 5e + Retroclones) World of Darkness (all versions) Pretty much anything else is just a rounding error relative to 5e.

"perception" in Old school games is essentially the Search action - spend 10 minutes searching at most a 10x10 square, with a 17% chance of success each time, no retries. This rule is so horrendously bad and unusable that, by necessity, people started making up their own way of resolving...

People typically are referring to OD&D and the Basic series when they say Old School was simpler, not AD&D and definitely not AD&D second edition. If they do use ad&d as a reference point, they ignore like 90% of the rules as optional. Old school was birthed in 1974 and died at your choice of...

I ran the premade module in it to decent success. Trying to use the campaign tools was frustrating and I ultimately gave up and pivoted to a different campaign frame. It ultimately is a better book to steal ideas from than to use as the sole source for a campaign, imo.

LL usually has the book pretty close to done before crowdfunding it. The KS's I've been on have all delivered quickly.

The art, design, and ideas in LL's stuff is really really good. They're very fun to read or flip through. They tend to lack polish/specifics though that make them more challenging to use for actual play as-is. Specifically I tried to run Wind Wraith which was very challenging to use and...

I can attest to this. The PF1 campaign I was in broke down for this exact reason around level 9 or 10, where the DM physically couldn't keep track of the buff/bonus/etc in an encounter where he had to run multiple spellcasters, and had like 30 tabs open in his browser just to try. This was...

As some examples of early game complexity. How do you draw a weapon or potion? In PF1: you can draw a weapon as a move action, which means you can't move during your turn. But, if you have a BAB of +1 (like a level 1 fighter), you can draw a weapon as a free action during a move action in...

Maybe 2 hours, then I started running the game. I had my group(s) read the rules and we started playing immediately, pretty well without too many issues. I have also had a group NOT read anything and we learned-as-they-played through the beginner box. Again, no issues.

I'd take a supplemental update PDF. I just want to be able to own the update somehow.

Does this mean that the Exploring Eberron update will be a dndbeyond exclusive or could it still be released on dmsguild separately?

My advice from running multiple campaigns with OSE: Your Table Will Vary. Change the game as needed while you play to make it more enjoyable for yourself and your players - talk to them about what they do/don't like. Don't do something a certain way just because you've seen it done that way...

For some people, that's what they find fun.

As much as I prefer the rules actually present in Moldvay B/X or the all-in-one package of the RC, Mentzer's BE was absolutely better for actually teaching the game. Absolutely fantastic work.

It doesn't have torch weight, because the weight of individual adventuring gear wasn't defined until the Mentzer Expert set came out (1983). In Molvay/Cook B/X (1981), all adventuring gear together, regardless of quantity or type, counts for a total of 80cns of weight. You quoted that exact...

To make a system like this work, This needs to resolve instantly, not over time like death saves. It should be a straight 50/50 shot of instant death. Reason being is that otherwise, the optimal choice is always choose this option, then wait for a party member to heal/stabilize you - that is...

What game are ya'll even talking about here?

This is not relevant in B/X. Neither encumbrance option involves tracking the weight of individual pieces of adventuring gear. The only things tracked are carrying treasure vs not carrying treasure, and armor type (Basic Encumbrance) or Armor, Weapon, and treasure weights (Detailed...

Basic Fantasy is fine. I don't like how it handles encumbrance and XP (tracking individual pounds of gear sucks, and combat-only XP means you're never gonna get a PC past level 1) The art and layout make it feel very amateurish and dated compared to more modern projects like OSE. The price is...

As someone who regularly runs B/X, none of these bullet points are in the rules and all of them are pretty far removed from what I'd allow a player character to attempt to do. Unless a monster is specifically afraid of/weak to fire, waving a torch around menacingly is just gonna get you a spear...