There is a big battle coming up, and as a GM it's hard enough to run the foes and adjucate the game. I didn't want to have to, on top of that, also be running the party NPCs. So I decided to give sheets to volunteers players who would run these NPCs during this big battle, as well as their own PCs, to make my life easier.
To make *my players'* lives easier, I made NPCs into simplified versions of a full PC - each sheet is half a page long, and with a few "signature" powers as opposed to the whole thing. Here is what it looks like:
After I was done making these sheets, I had this thought creep up on me... what if I mashed up the GLOG and 5e? The sheet above looks a little bit... Glogish doesn't it?
I know this will sound like *heresy* to many. I probably will lose whatever tiny credibility I had in the OSR movement (small loss, almost no one reads this haha). But hear me out here. By fault or by chance, there are some similarities between the GLOG and 5e that aren't there with other D&D version. For example:
- Bounded accuracy: Bonuses don't get out of hand. Your chances to hit increase slowly.
- Short breaks for some healing: In 5e it's a short rest, in the GLOG it's lunch. Preeeety similar no?
- Fast healing: Sleeping overnight restores a lot of HP, unlike older games where natural healing was 1 hp a night, or maybe 1/level a night.
- Backgrounds: Both system have them and they matter a bit, it's not just RP fluff.
I think I'm on to something there. I *really* liked the simplicity of the GLOG, and I really liked that spellcasters only had a few spells and not an enormous swiss army knife. But the lack of a skill system bothered me (and other of my players) and they felt that it was a little too under powered. 5e on the other hand is a little *too* complex and a bit *too* over powered for my taste. By taking a class and reducing it to its signature element, limiting level progression to say 5... voila.
The GLOG is meant to be hackable, and 5e is pretty robust. I think this can be done. But *should* I do it?
