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Well, I will be starting my own TSR Hobbies, Inc., and we're specializing in needle craft - the TRUE legacy of the original firm!

How on Earth do you know that? Not that I don't believe you - I'm just curious. Considering that LaNasa leads his biography by...

This is what is best in D&D. Searching your character sheet and deciding maybe you can distract the monster with iron rations. Trying...

I just had a conversation with one of my players about the feel of combat in 1st-2nd edition vs 3rd & 5th edition. For context, the...

So basically, it comes down to how 1e rules were written so poorly* that everyone had their own house rules and/or ignored rules to make...

Some folks made similar complaints about AD&D when it came out. :) That it was munchkinized and PCs were excessively powerful compared...

Never made it to 4.0 much less 5.0. I lost interest except for some FR source books in 3.0 (mainly for background) and looked to other...

He worked with WotC on the 3.0 roll-out, and apparently was very positive about parts of it, but eventually did voice some unhappiness...

He disliked Thieves so much, he called his novel “Gord the Rogue”.

Gary said a lot of things. He was garrulous. He was often very right*, sometimes very wrong*, and more than occasionally grouchy. I...

I think a lot depended on how your table ran thieves. For example, take something like move silently. IIRC this is how we played it...

TSR Thieves are bad to some people. There's been people in this thread who've posted their enjoyment of playing the class. This idea...

This thread is like an Edition Cold War. :LOL:

Held a war, nobody came.

I don't think so. Speed and complexity are real but what I think is, that it is very subjective that all those features are negative...