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I've played OD&D, B/X, 1E, BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia, and 2E over the years. When they were first out and I was a kid B/X was the starting...

Jumping in a bit late here but what if rather then thinking of this as two distinct categories of adventure "To be run" and "to be read"...

For the players, it doesn’t need to simplify it. As a DM, I’m glad that a flat map simplifies it. I’m just saying, as a person who...

I don't really think any of the old two column TSR modules can be described as having great layout or presentation. Art tends to be...

That's pretty good, but I'd argue that 50% of that text can still get chopped, which will make it even easier to use.

That was a super-common house rule. I remember people I played with repeatedly being surprised that it wasn't in the DMG, but just...

I think you might find ASE quite instructive, not necessarily because it offers a guide for the sort of aesthetic your project seems to...

I'd add that the primary distinction between B/X and the BE part of BECMI is the instructional elements and the way the game is...

Does it matter a lot? I'd assume that's a setting question and even in a Gygaxian vernacular fantasy setting its going to depend on the...

Here's my first draft of the modifications I am making to the Keep section: Borderlands Keep Location: About a half day’s travel...

Less I'd say. I am also unconvinced by the "think of the children" argument - if any new referee is going to be able to get creative...

The adventure has no more holes than the original Keep on the Borderlands.

Taking a look at this set (just the adventures part) with more of an old school perspective - I also enjoyed the maps, they were new...

I play OD&D ... so as a human, unconnected to the cosmic struggle between order and chaos, I'd be neutral ... like everyone else.

While the While this might be a way to play a dungeon crawl, it's certainly not the only way (as others have suggested). The key to...