Recent content by Firwood

You forget a fundamental aspect of AD&D: PGs could die at any time! Hence the use of many magic items: to make it less difficult for characters to survive. With D&D from 3.x onwards, characters are almost immortal from level one. This is the fundamental difference between the old and new...

Exactly what happened after the first wave of the OGL started with the release of D&D 3.x up to the 4ed, where the public blatantly abandoned Dungeons & Dragons (and the new GSL licence) by switching to Pathfinder or heading to other systems, prolonging the long wave of OGL releases until 2010...

In my opinion, the editions to consider are 2e and 3e (which has, in my opinion, the most beautiful and complete setting manual ever). The cataclysmic events culminating in the Horde in the first edition never really got me that involved, whereas the fall of the gods on Faerun I have always...

Unfortunately, both Planescape and Dark Sun are not among my preferences. I loathe psionics and don't much appreciate post-apocalyptic settings, while Planescape I've always found quirky and whimsical. I have read the setting manuals and they are very well written, but too far from my tastes...

What does it do best? Simple: everything! ;):) Obviously I have been a master/player for a long time now, having started in 1985. In my opinion AD&D 2e is the best version of all those published. The only flaw is that the information is scattered throughout the manuals, which are not very well...

I found the meaning of creampuffs, but I cannot contextualise it within the sentence. If it is hyperbole to mean the use of a completely harmless weapon then it might make sense. Thank you.

Hello everyone! In the complete Priest's Handbook, there is a word that I cannot translate/understand (I am Italian). The term is creampuffs, it is found in the "weapons" section, just before "spheres of influence". Can you help me understand what it is? Thank you.

Do not forget that with D&D first and AD&D later, the game was not yet as widespread as it was in later years. Those who heard about it played it the way they had seen it, so they repeated the same way of playing and so on from group to group. Those were 'simpler' years, with a game in its...

Foreword: I am a player of AD&D 2ed and am very fond of the material published for this system. I would keep the setting as it was before the publication of the Campaign Setting for the 3ed (still a truly extraordinary manual!!). I would use 1369 DR as the starting year, immediately after Time...

Absolutely not. This petition is a manifesto of the cancel culture and the prevailing hypocrisy that wants to 'revise' the works of the past by imposing the vision of some who believe they have a 'superior morality' as is happening with Dahl's works. Instead of wanting to erase the past, let...

Better layout, better index and new art, along with typos corrections and errata included. Not bad.

In my opinion, since it is a bonus, it is obvious that it improves the AC by two points. I'd have to read the spell text to avoid ambiguity, but from the summary, it improves hit roll, damage, saving throws and armour class, all by 2 points. So: THAC0 drops by 2 points (if it was 17 it becomes...

It's all a matter of perspective: having been born with D&D (red box) and then moved on to AD&D, this 'confusion' with descending AC, THAC0, bonuses and malus I don't see. I understand that those who come from d20 where everything is more simplified find some difficulties, but... honestly, you...

10. If someone cannot do a simple subtraction and has to constantly refer to a table, the fault lies not with the system, but with the player. Obviously i'm an old AD&D player (2nd edition) and still playing with this system. I have played and enjoyed 3/3.5, tried and hated 4e, played 5e, which...

In my opinion this whole thing is just hypocrisy. A fake "politically correct" with which one washes one's mouth to present an acceptable facade of a society, the American one, which instead has many problems and has to deal with racism, homophobia, and in general discrimination of all kinds...