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Temporal linearity in play is important to me. And because of this I'm running aground all over the place right now in the game I'm...

That is wrong. In one case you have a player declaring that they'd like their character to find herbs. In the other you have a player...

Retcon =/= do in the moment. They will never be close to the same, no matter how often you repeat that they are not really that different.

Do you see why this would bother people who think making decisions about how to spend time while traveling is an important part of the...

It is setting oriented play. The PCs are not playing second fiddle. I made the roads but they're in the driver's seat and choose which...

When these coincidences happen every time I fail a roll, they're no longer coincidences.

Dropping weapon-speed and weapon-vs-armour-type outright is a trivially easy kitbash that really doesn't affect much else while making...

Any edition that has White Plume Mountain, Castle Amber, and the two EX-series ones as official modules, while also having some of the...

The 1e Ranger is still the best Ranger, and it's not even close. 2e completely ruined the class and it has yet to recover. 1e Thieves...

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

For me, it was the copious amounts of malt liquor and the Manowar (played on 10, of course).

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...

I was never able to talk a DM into letting me use it. And when I DM'd I told my players no on that one as well. When you're used to...

Man, this thread really makes me want to play AD&D even more than I already have... :(

Except for one case, every thief I saw in 1E or 2E was a multiclassed character. The one case was a party where people played more than...