3E might be the higher sport, however for regardless of the aesthetic of 2E simply sings to me.  It’s a ebook I consistently pull off the shelf and simply web page by means of and immerse myself in.

Yeah, lots of the brand new artwork isnt as much as the standard of the previous artwork, however not less than the previous artwork continues to be there.

I favored each of these fairly a bit.

There is a declaration part in every spherical of fight the place PCs and NPCs state their intent for the spherical, one of many few video games that I do know of that does this. Declaration is completed previous to rolling initiative, which can also be rolled every spherical and is side-based.

Wouldn’t that trigger a difficulty with gamers desirous to ‘declare’ their intent for the approaching fight spherical after the DM stats what the Monsters/Enemies will do? Since it could be to the gamers benefit to decide on what they will do after realizing what the Enemy will do. Sure they nonetheless must roll initiative and will must go earlier than or after the enemy, however it’s kind of of a bonus IMO. (Prap’s I’m only a harsh DM ;-p)

There is a declaration part in every spherical of fight the place PCs and NPCs state their intent for the spherical, one of many few video games that I do know of that does this. Declaration is completed previous to rolling initiative, which can also be rolled every spherical and is side-based.

Wouldn’t that trigger a difficulty with gamers desirous to ‘declare’ their intent for the approaching fight spherical after the DM stats what the Monsters/Enemies will do? Since it could be to the gamers benefit to decide on what they will do after realizing what the Enemy will do. Sure they nonetheless must roll initiative and will must go earlier than or after the enemy, however it’s kind of of a bonus IMO. (Prap’s I’m only a harsh DM ;-p)

Only the gamers must declare their intent. 

Oh man oh man! I simply wish to run Hyperborea some day. I’ve been supporting Jeff’s video games since 1e,and whereas I by no means acquired to play or DM, I’ve mined his modules for lots of concepts. Certainly extra impressed than these from different trendy OSR video games, however then that might simply be my bias as a Howard fan.

How are the modules? I have not picked any up but, as I needed to see what the system was like earlier than I went all in. Are there any you’d advocate?

Also, to the others right here with PDF solely, the standard of the laborious copy is fairly rattling nice. It’s an off-white matte paper. They’re very properly printed and appear sturdy. The binding is stitched and glued. Made in USA.

The modules are all flavorful and may be fairly lethal.  We ran a marketing campaign in 2e utilizing all their printed modules however it ended when the social gathering misplaced all however one character (a pyromancer) at round Seventh-Eighth stage.  Ported him over to our Swords & Wizardry marketing campaign and he died within the subsequent journey, fittingly in a Temple of Tsothaqqua.  But the Gnome illusionist from that social gathering nonetheless carries the mi-go laser pistol he inherited from the pyromancer.

Definitely a cool sport with nice subclasses and enjoyable spell lists that add lots of taste not present in different OSR choices.  I might have most well-liked that they stored a single quantity possibility, however this version is well-made and the separate gazetteer booklet is great.  We simply took the setting and made it the North Pole of my homebrew marketing campaign so you possibly can simply combine it into different settings should you do not wish to go full-bore into their bizarre fantasy type.