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Hey, I'll happily cop to being lazy, in that if there's two ways of doing the same thing to the same result I'll almost always choose...

Each edition changed quite a bit between the start and end of its run. Comparing at-release 1e with at-release 2e is IMO valid, as is...

The biggest source of xp in 2e was defeating monsters. My memory is that the story xp stuff was optional.

The chance of misfiring within a given round gets higher but it's ironclad sure that's not what they were looking at. Instead they were...

Forgive me...

Odd, in that the more dice you roll at once the less random (i.e. more predictable) the result is likely to be; the law of averages will...

The players will vote out the challenge of the game. Designers have to sneak it back in. Basically fans have to accept a weakness for...

Agreed all round. Change "fun" to "challenge" in that last quote and you're bang on right.

Same here, though it's toned down somewhat from the as-written UA version.

In an adventure module I'm only after content and reference. If the writing is good enough (by which I mean both readable enough and...

Oh, I use them, but not always. I just got done running (most of) H2 Bloodstone Mines after a string of homebrew adventures, and the...

Corner case exception: the player who is thinking of becoming a DM and buys a module to see how the sauce is made. That, and many times...

This makes a lot of really bad assumptions about the content being fundamentally different when the main difference is presentation. The...

It works for me - the statues could be quite worn and weathered yet their species still be obvious; and the days of "somewhat...

I agree. Likewise with the comment someone else made about designing it to avoid the wheels falling off or whatever. The fact that...