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Cracking the code of a game that will fit Retreater's entire group requires a Rosetta Stone I do not have. :)

My experience so far is that it delivers much the same experience as Basic and AD&D back in the day, with fewer house rules or much less...

Talking about our gaming experiences gives us the opportunity to sanity check, compare impressions with and get feedback from other...

The real Tomb of Horrors was inside us all along.

Sure, but the default is anything but hack and slash.

The reaction table in Shadowdark pretty much ensures it isn't hack and slash unless that's what the players want. More than half the...

"10 rooms of identical goblins" isn't a recognizable description of any old module I can think of. I guess it's a hyperbolic...

I'm writing an higher level SD adventure, for which I need some big sexy undead BBEGs.

It also doesn't make it worse. Not that anyone really gives a toss about appeals to popularity anyway. I prefer to stick to the actual...

Dropping a boulder off a cliff onto an enemy camp while they sleep is technically combat, but one with probably just one big roll.

I see what you did there.

Let me tell you about the time we stumbled into the main hall in the Steading of the Hill Giant chief unprepared ...

Going to zero HP doesn't kill you, so the math there is way off. First the goblin has to roll to hit, then roll to damage, and then...

The DMs who ran Retreater's games don't seem to have read any play examples in the book. One of them -- the "do every dungeon room in...