MUSL gang rise up!

They did, twice. Once based on 3e/3.5e and then again as a test of 4e mechanics, my understanding is that the 4e based one was pretty alright.

I much prefer the old WEG D6 Star Wars game. All source books available here!

Whoa, dude, personal attack much?

Two things can be true. The car manufacturers are massive pieces of shit as most corporations are, but also Nader is a piece of shit…

He picked a target and fudged the data until it said what he wanted. Just because he was doing it to promote something good doesn’t make it right.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/21/archives/us-car-study-disputes-nader-on-corvair-safety-charge-in-65-us-car.html

He also had to modify the corvair he claimed was unsafe to cause it to do unsafe things… Nader is a piece of shit.

Check out DURF. It’s one of my favorites! Super lightweight, lots of systems abstracted, really streamlined for the GM.

https://emielboven.itch.io/durf

I stopped playing D&D a while ago, before 5.5, I mostly plat OSR games now, bit I own both Nimble and Draw Steel.

I think the nimble dying rules are good, I think pairing them with the existing exhaustion rules will work well.

If you would like another example of something you could try that is even more punishing, at my table, when someone drops to 0 hit points they roll a d4 under a cup and that is the number of round they have to live, you don’t look under the cup till another player checks on them. If you want to be note generous you could give them a +1 or +2 or have them roll a d6. The not knowing if you will make it in time to save your friend really amps up the drama.

Basically any initiative system will work with D&D, you just have to figure out how surprise and things like the alertness feat are going to work (does 5.5 even have the alertness feat?)

Spell slots are a lot harder to replace because they are so tightly integrated into the game. You not only need to think about the magic system, but also abilities that use spell slots as currency (divine smite, etc.). You would have to look through all the classes your players are using and come up with mana costs for any ability that uses spell slots.

As far as if the Nimble rules are balanced, I would have to do the math, but it is only granting 1 mana per spell slot, not 1 mana per spell slot level, so a fourth level spell slot still only nets you 1 mana. Seems pretty balanced to me.

Why specifically don’t you like spell slots? I think of this as mostly a player facing mechanic. If spellcasting monsters (which suck to run) have got you down, just edit those to cast only useful spells or turn the spells into recharge abilities. MCDM’s Flee Mortals would be good inspiration for better monsters to run, if that is what you are having trouble with!

Everyone struggles with D&D at points, especially as a DM. You are not alone!

I don’t know you or your table so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Why do you feel locked in to D&D 5.5?

If you strongly feel like a different system would have been better, talk to your players about switching, maybe try a one shot in the new system, just for one session. See how people like it. Be open and honest.

The game needs to be fun for you too! Best of luck and happy gaming!

I was a district level delegate, she gave a speech at our convention. I really liked what she had to say.

Let’s be real, managers gaslight themselves daily.

You should check out their next game Crows.

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/a8aff93a-c845-4024-87ec-06f167c79c1a/landing

There is The Land of Eem, which is really good, won a couple ennies. They are currently kick starting another setting box set and an even more kid friendly rule set if you end up interested, but the current box set is awesome too. Also free preview PDF.

The best things you can do right now are to keep sharing what is happening with anyone you can and donate to local food banks (feds just cut most of our federal funding).

The musl c library version isn’t broken there are just some applications that aren’t compatible. Steam games on proton just have a much higher chance of being incompatible and the void devs can’t prod them to fix their code.

I would recommend using the glibc version if your goal is gaming.

Yes you can. It is in the non-free repo.

Void Linux! There are single digits of us!

I’m playing Necesse and Super Fantasy Kingdom right now. Thinking about getting neck into Caves of Qud. I also need to figure up Dwarf Fortress since the siege update.

Even better!

I really enjoyed this game. Worth the $13.