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that's been a complaint about the module since the Basic version came out back in 1980 or so. It's a slugfest and runs along the lines...

okay, I'll take your word for it, as I have nil experience with 5e. It is a neat set, though, the maps are great.

"absolutely nothin', say it again...." quote from all PCs who aren't clerics or paladins...

just for the heck of it, ordered this and got it yesterday. The maps are neat, the Keep is much better detailed, and the wilderness...

heh. I can remember it being mentioned in the Game Wizards book (I think) about how one of Dave Arneson's 'poke in the eye to TSR'...

from what I read about OD&D, the main problem with it was that it was hard to learn unless you're taught by someone who already learned...

when I started back in 1980, the choices were 1E, Basic (of which there was only the Holmes set, which ran only to level 3), and OD&D...

wow, that is rather neat looking. It's kinda amusing that B2, in spite of all the criticism about the problem of 'so many critters in...

so, not knowing anything about this new edition or the stuff for it... is this adventure another retooling of the old B2 module?

weirdly enough, after being plastered all over my FB feed for a day, he's disappeared from it. If he turns back up, I'll do the 'hide...

mine too. Is there a counterspell?

so, the existing rules already cover it? Okay.

that's a bit of a problem, and one reason why firearms are bit loopy for D&D rules. Muzzleloaders were distinctly difficult to load and...

not to mention, he was writing for what he assumed would be a tiny group of gamers in his area, and had no idea that D&D would take off...

I had this one way back in the day. Not sure why it was for sale in a toy store in Montana, but back then, I was grabbing about every...