Recent content by overgeeked

Organic discussion or no, 2013 was the tail end of 4E where WotC published what…one D&D book vs pre-pandemic 5E. That’s like “organically” comparing your quadriplegic cousin’s skill at basketball to Michael Jordan’s.

It’s a nostalgia product for grognards. It’ll be fine as what it is.

Seth Skorkowsky just dropped a relevant video.

Tell ’em to watch Beetlejuice and get it right.

20, 20, 24 hours to go...

The other side of that coin is the reaction roll. Not every encounter will necessarily be a fight.

I have threads on the topic if people want to stop derailing this thread. Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run? https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-practices-for-easy-to-run-modules.716252/

Finished Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I took it slow. A chapter or two a day while reading other stuff. The idea of the story came from Dick reading about psychopaths and empathy. It really shows. Despite having read it multiple times already, the empathy theme really...

It's a reference to splat book churn and character option bloat. Something none of the GG lines really do.

I still say it's all due to David Bowie dying.

LOL. Sorry my lived experience contradicts your armchair theorizing. Buh-bye.

They constantly update that intro paragraph. The most recent one is: "Remember when fantasy role-playing was new and unpredictable? When you didn’t know what a monster might be able to do or how a wizard’s spell might manifest? That time when inspiration came from classic sword & sorcery...

3. Some people actually played that way back then and want more.

Replicate 4E in almost every respect. The only real difference would be tear out the combat system and replace it with clocks and countdowns. Look to games like Daggerheart, BitD, and PbtA for pointers. Return to Nentir Vale, points of light, the Dawn War pantheon, and the World Axis cosmology.

The 2026 thread is over here. https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-are-you-reading-in-2026.716987/