The new edition of D&D 5e has been out for a while, and people seem to agree that it's kinda bad but it's all right. I have no interest in playing it. But it did make me think back to the olden days (mid-2010s) when I first ran 5e. It was fun! 5e was, at the time, an OSR game. We had weird player characters wandering the wilderness and delving dungeons, searching for treasure and dying horribly to my home-made monsters. Why not return to those rose-tinted days of high adventure!
My friends were thinking the same, so we've started a 5e 2014 campaign. There's a talking cat, and a servant of cosmic Law, and a kobold that can turn giant, and more, and they came to the sick king's castle that had turned into a dungeon, and they fought poison-spitting stag lizards and creepy suitors looking to marry the queen, and they met a raven man who gave them random prophecies of doom, and the queen wanted them to cure the king and also find the lost princess, and they looted the princess's bedroom and found a secret door, and they fought a dragon that kicked their ass and killed the kobold, but the player came back with a githyanki stand-user... Yes, this is just like I remember it!
- All player options are allowed
- Put ability score bonuses wherever you want
- Start at level 3
- No feats or multiclassing
- Fix or ban the annoying spells
- Fix the druid
- Fix the ranger
- Don't fully recover after a single long rest if you got really beat up
- Add a travel system
- Decide how to reward XP
- And most importantly: Make the monsters deadlier
I know there have been people trying to make 5e into more of an "old-school" game before, but I'm not really trying to make 5e like the early editions of D&D. I'm trying to make it into the 5e I remember playing, the game from my blurry nostalgic memories. And I'm succeeding!
To be continued...?
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