Ghul wrote:

mavfire wrote:

Super excited, and being that I have some inside looks, I am of the mind that 3E will be the best edition. Ghul has promised to add GNOMES too... Cant wait!

I am hard at work on my portion of this thing and I am anxious to have you all see what we have cooked up for you this go around. 

I told you not to mention the gnomes. It was supposed to be a surprise! What's next, you'll tell them all about our new skills and feats chapters, with feat combinations that allow one to play a 1/3 gnome, 1/3 Amazon, 1/3 gelatinous cube paladin/illusionist prestige class robot/psionicist?  
 

Gnomes. I KNEW IT!
 

In the end there was a compromise, which is more work for me-DCC in the Hyperborea setting with Hyperborea classes after the funnel. So I just need to write up the sub-classes and deities with patron spells....

@Brock Savage: Oh, I know you weren't pointing towards any particular edition, I'm just finding that some younger people are fine with simpler rules, maybe because it doesn't break up the action to refer to an action, item or particular statistic, and I'm hoping to keep that rhythm, but I do need to be versatile as well.

As far as the bar environment, it is very quiet and clean and the manager is trying to get away from the overused sports bar theme and engage or entertain people. Monday-Tuesday it is closed, then Wednesday is trivia night, Thursday is game night with one comedy night a month, Friday is karaoke, Saturday is live music and Sunday doesn't have a theme, it is just quiet bar time.

As an OSR guy who has written and illustrated for the OSR since 2009 I also really believe the setting and rules mesh perfectly together and hearken to an older style of play and evoke the feel of the inspirational literature. On the other hand, I get paid to run games in a bar and I need to be versatile because this situation is not all about what I want. However, if I had to run 5e, why not incorporate AS&SH as a setting?

Before the torches & pitchforks come out: I am running a game pretty much RAW, with my house rules posted in the AS&SH section of ODD74. I am, however, contemplating a secondary game using 5e maybe, with the Hyperborea setting. Just wondering if anyone has used this and how it is going.

Quite true, the Dungeon Alphabet and it's companion, the Monster Alphabet are great resources.

I use the following:

One dry erase battle mat.
A deck of dungeon mapping cards.
The GM screen, laminated.
The combat reference sheet, laminated.
A set of moleskine notebooks with the basic idea and encounters, once, treasure, etc. written for each session with a small container of 3x5 index cards for random encounters.
Miniatures and dice.
I print out the two pages for each player detailing their character class so they have access to their abilities.

And that is it. No module or adventure, I just kick off a campaign with a rough idea, it is up to the players to fill in the details. Having written an OSR blog since 2009 I have a lot of reference to use for something different here and there.

I wonder how this affects Heroes & Other Worlds, a simulacrum.

I like the way old school Warhammer (a la Realms of Chaos books 1&2) handled corruption for followers of Chaos, whether sorcerer or not, with a reward/attribute system-gain enough rewards, become extremely powerful, gain too many attributes and you lose your mind and become a helpless Chaos Spawn. A very intense risk/reward system for all who would follow strange and chaotic deities.

This nicely mirrors many cautionary tales of those who would become powerful at any cost.

Weird, creepy and brooding imagery.