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I've always seen it less about refereeing than about A) spells doing increasingly world-altering things which open up completely new...

Oh, I do. That's totally how I handle inventory management on my character sheet.

I genuinely dislike the rules-lite, OSR-adjacent games that use inventory slots as health and spell slots. I'm continually irked by the...

Rowan Atkinson played Doctor Who for a Red Nose Day special, Curse of Fatal Death. Rowan Atkinson played Blackadder with a constant...

When you say you are cloning B/X instead of BECMI, as Labyrinth Lord and OSE did, it tells you it has stuff from the Basic and Expert...

I'll agree with you in the broad strokes, but... man, as much as I like Elmore's art, I really like Dykstra's too. I can't even...

It's self-evident that the first two volumes of a multi-volume game system are going to be more "compact and limited" than the whole...

The '86 and '92 Immortals rules are much more different from each other than any little differences between BX and BE. And yet, BX gets...

For clarification, Old School Essentials is a clone of 1981 Basic/Expert D&D, typically referred to in shorthand as B/X. The ones...

You probably have heard of it! "Ten-seventy" is the 1991 big black box (New Easy-to-Master D&D Game). "Eleven-six" is its smaller...

I voted BECMI, but if we're going to treat Moldvay/Cook and Mentzer as separate editions, I'm not actually running either one. I run...

Beyond the Wall / Through Sunken Lands. Most would point to the playbooks or the "build the village" mechanic as the selling point, but...

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For me the biggest misconception is that dungeon crawls are focussing on the combat pillar of gameplay. For me exploration is the main...

I'd have to say that sounds like a really sad summary. - Broadly, exploration: A good dungeon crawl is an exercise in exploring new...