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Except the GM can always say no. "I want to play a dragon." "No." It works for everything too.

Lokathor: What were your patches? Interested to say the least.

I was considering running it 2 years ago. I might just run it eventually. This thread is useful for determining what to house rule, that's for sure.

Hmm, don't really want to derail this topic, but what about later editions of Earthdawn?

Despite the number overload and the fact that the game breaks, I'm still tempted now and then to run a mini-campaign where the PCs are gods using the Immortals Handbook Ascension and IH Bestiary. Just need to find a reasonable group of people to try it with.

So give a feat every session and ignore feats as prerequisites? So a monk could take Vorpal Strike after the 1st session and it's all good?

This thread reminded me that some guy compiled an Anniversary Edition of this great game: http://sfrpg.com/2015/09/08/sf20-releas ... y-edition/

Having read the complete book, I'm disappointed. The mechanics are clunky and carry over some of the worst ideas about epic/deity-level play. The only saving grace is the sandboxing tools and advice.

Most of Kevin Crawford's works are deriative of Labrinyth Lord which itself is a retroclone o BX D&D. While there are additions and adjustment here and there, most of the focus is on the sandboxing tools.

I've read most of the beta. There are things to like (the adventure generation tools are good) and things to hate (the damage mechanic is a hack, fighting man plus powers) but overall it doesn't do enough to upset the apple cart on what OSR play could be.

So having a near complete Feng Shui 1E collection (Architects, yey), I think I'll continue just playing that.

Is there anything worth backporting?

Not surprised.

Only 2 adventure paths ever compelled me to try running them but I could never find players who were interested. Personally, the 101 Not So Random Encounters books by Rite Publishing deliver a similar experience without the railroad and in less than 40 pages.

Hmm, they just replaced the APG Summoner with the unchained Summoner in PFS.

I've decided to go back to 3.0e. Anything I should keep a lookout for in regards to using Tome material?

EX3 is not going to change the sexual fuckedupness of 2E. Their preview of the Abyssal Socialize tree can be summarized up as "ghost molestation" and "reducing victims to nymphomaniacs".

At this rate, if I had to spend real money on a new edition of D&D, I would chose this over Next.

So what about a base system? Feng Shui?

Actually, SenZar is really playable. It's Synnibar that's a clusterfuck.

Because they were beginning to make stuff I felt worth buying again (Champions Beyond, Horror Hero, Book of the Empress). Also, it's not like I hadn't purchased 6E books - I had purchased the two main volumes in hardcopy and the basic rulebook, both advanced player's guides, and the Villains volumes...

Kinda sucks that the company currently hawking my current game of choice is down to 1 person (from 3, I know, I know) and that the Book of the Empress needs a Kickstarter. Wished I could have bought more books to support 6E - I thought it made some necessary changes - but I had enough material from ...

FrankTrollman wrote: AD&D's treasure system had huge problems. But the fix would be to have more interactive tables and specific fudge factor points on those tables to adapt the treasure to make more sense with the world.
-Username17

More interactive? Specific fudge factors? Do elaborate.

If I wanted to ever play OWOD again, I would just use the setting with After Sundown rules.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:No one likes MnM 3E though.

Elaborate.

So, instead of 3.5, a number of prospective players want to use PF. Should there be any compatibility issues using Tome (classes, feats, BoG magic items)?