should i start playing D&D

well they are luridly designed to look like grimoires, is most of what i meant, lol. and (related to the tedium) they are just really full of stuff, details about all kinds of stuff, labeled pen-and-ink sketches of different kinds of elf, etc.; they're fun to look at, like dinotopia or something. the 5e books are more streamlined, tho the monster manual's still pretty good. the monster manual's always good.

am i right that 5e is 'compatible' with 3?

man those pen and ink sketches...

btw the spur for this late-in-life rpg renaissance is Deadball, one of the only kickstarters i've ever contributed to:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/695502966/smallball-baseball-with-dice

xp i don't think so? lots of mechanics are the same, monsters and items you could maybe convert without much trouble, but characters are built pretty differently. that said, d&d should prob be played sloppily and made to conform to whatever you want from it, espesh in our age, to distinguish it from video games.

:D i'm going to take that as a vote of confidence in my nascent percentile-dice-for-everything steez

but i think u have to take it seriously, sometimes ppl dont & its like, its still a game, that you want to be fun, not "ironic"

emphasizing this important upthread post tho and that it is not wholesale unbalancing let alone "irony" i am recommending here, so much as like, just going ahead and making up what you think a bugbear would be proficient in or how you think this cool sword from elsewhere would work here.

i rly like the platonic assortment of d&d dice. they were fantastical artifacts when i was little. maybe not a lot of reason for them tho, a lot of other games seem to get by w percentile and/or boring ol grownup d6.

me too.

ooh actually the "advantage" and "disadvantage" mechanic looks like a neat and simple addition. i am going to go for 5e i think. it looks like the easiest for beginners (which my kids and i totally are)

i'm slightly suspicious of my sudden enthusiasm for this (what am i procrastinating?) but maybe i should JUST "ROLL" WITH IT HAHAHAHA

Take a look at this, if you get a chance. Completely free- if you want bound hard copies of the rules etc. they're super cheap.

http://www.basicfantasy.org/

interesting. have you played it?

it also seems that the great and good of D&D 5e have made the basic rules and DM's guide available as free downloads as well which is well sporting of them since the full fledged print editions cost a good 50 euros each

holy shit that basic fantasy stuff looks amazing!

I've played it... in my MIND! But, no, just dabbled. Looks interesting and there's a ton of stuff.

i have not started playing d&d. but i have started playing deadball! it is just on the edge of what my 5-y-o is capable of. so I think i will give him a little more time. they LOVE deadball.