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At some point, I promised to share my FLGS's D&D sales from July 2014 to October 2025, for those that like to look at lists. Obviously...

Anything pre-2e or that reasonably-well emulates such. 2e with its emphasis on storytelling isn't as good a fit for dungeoncrawling...

Maybe split it out such that 'restraint' means restraint without associated damage (always SAXPB) and 'crush' means restraint that packs...

Reading this makes me think of another catch-all term that could apply to some monsters: restraint. This could be a SAXPB bonus for...

Yes, I agree with the guess that "crush" might be intended as a catch-all term for monsters which constrict (snakes) or hug (bears and...

Maybe replace Legendary Resistance with 1st Ed. Magic Resistance.

Known: There were holes in the design, whether intentionally put there* or not Learned since: The designers knew very early on that at...

I'm a minority...rawr!

I understand and respect your points. However, some of us look at the line above as a good thing, a strength. I think it was you that...

I've seen scry-and-fry happen numerous times in 1e, never mind 3e where it was far easier to pull off. It's a thing, IME.

It's the Crypt Thing and it's in the class of "mobile traps" that we see in a lot of AD&D monsters. How dangerous it is depends...

Whenever I design a table for almost anything I always make the table's range either open-ended (meaning I might have to roll a d57 or...

2-5 is the same average as d6 only with the ends filed off. Easy enough to do as d4+1.

I think no matter how finely we try to tune this, there's still going to be situations where it just comes down to eyeballing it at the...

I'm hung up on getting fingerprinted to get your driver's license renewed. Not sure I'm cool with that.