Recent content by lumin

Sorry to necro this thread, but as I stated above, I promised to purchase OSRIC and MoM from Black Blade earlier this year. I was just about to purchase when I noticed my shipping total. $38 for two books?! $19 shipping EACH? Seriously?!!! Are my books being shipped from the moon? I really...

Oh, I just noticed something. OSRIC adds Human race modifiers to thief skills. Is that listed somewhere outside of the table on pg 28 in 1E, or is this something OSRIC added?

Holy Smokes! I must have looked at those pages 50 times and never saw those sections. Now that's proof positive that OSRIC has organized it better. Thanks for pointing that out for me. I feel like I have pretty good reading comprehension, so if even I missed that, a new player at my table...

Completely agree. I love the flavor text like castle building and town caste systems. I also loved Gygax's instruction that killing the "big bad guy" is, in reality, the easy part. Hauling off the treasure and finding a place to store it, is what will be difficult. Everything about 1E feels...

I bought 1st Edition AD&D Core rule books a few months ago and love them. I liked it so much I sold my 3.5e books and haven't touched any of my other game books since. My one (minor) problem, though, is the unorganized nature of the rules. Rolling up a new character is kind of a pain because...

I really think that we're all trying to say the same thing in a different way. In your opinion, you believe that the Dungeon Master making things up is part of the rule system. In my opinion, I believe that whenever the Dungeon Master is making things up, he is breaking the rules for the sake...

But 3E doesn't really have "more rules" does it? I mean, practically everything possible revolves around a single rule: D20 vs DC. This is a rule created, precisely to provide more "free-wheeled" adventures. In 1E, there was a specific rule for each situation that Gygax put in the book, but...

Agreed. Except I would replace the word "had to adjudicate more" to "choose to adjudicate more" (other than saying, "no you can't do that"). And this is where I and many here are having a miscommunication about this. I have been referring solely about the rules as they are written on the...

I think I have hit a few nerves in here about this issue, with good reason. I'm challenging a principle that a lot of you have held firm to for a very long time. A long held opinion about something doesn't just change overnight. The misconception that 3E is more restrictive than AD&D came...

Sorry, but it is the only interpretation of it. And Gary Gygax and Harold Johnson agree with me. Fanboy interpretation is irrelevant.

The rules themselves are less restrictive than previous editions. The antonym of Restrictive is "unconditional, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted". In other words, AD&D was less unconditional, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted than 3E. Get it?

-Gygax; "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" in The Dragon #26 -Johnson, et al.; 30 Years of Adventure, pp. 255-263 (Harold Johnson is a game designer and editor, and an author of several products and articles for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.) Yep, those are surely...

That's funny because you just described yourself along with several others posting on this thread. Your entire opinion of D&D seems to be based off of your personal experience, not the intention of the author of the game, the rules of the game, or TSR. I'm the only one pulling quotes off of...

Now you guys are just being silly here. I came to the conclusion on my own that 1st Edition was more strict and less freeform than 3rd Edition by objectively reviewing them. I backed this up using comparative evidence from both editions. I then have backed up my claim with quotes from...

It doesn't need to be trimmed, the statement is there, plain as day. So you're saying that Encounter Resolution is NOT part of 3E rules?