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Round segments and the way surprise worked made magic far less reliable and sneaky classes far more swingy. Some things just worked...

And then he put in the rule book it was all up to the DM what to use and what not to use. He also over the years contradicted himself...

I think - at least for the groups I've played in - one of the reasons it worked was that it wasn't very prescriptive about the kind of...

lol same. But to be fair the rules said all the rules were up to DM. So not using them was part of the rules.

This thread ... definitely brings up thoughts.

Most of my goodwill comes from nostalgia, and from pretty much everything ancillary to the rules themselves, things like the artwork, or...

We played it a lot between 1981 and 1984. It was great fun. Our GM was well read in history and we did the zeros to castle & land owners...

true but modern movies tend to take what we got back then and then take it too far. Not a problem that is just associated to noir...

i think modern Noir tends to go so far over the edge that everything is predictably going to screw you and nobody is really going to...

linear means A then B then C. Sounds a lot like the old railroad track.

I guess we will just have to disagree. I ve always interpreted railroading as the tracks only go one way that can be coercive or no...

as has been stated many times and to be clear I'm not a fan. Some people like the railroad. whether it be enter the dungeon door clear...

I run my gods like greek mythology movies like Hercules and clash of the titans. They are a bunch of inept squabbling pervs running...

I probably wouldn't mind running or playing it but I over the years haven't been able to find a full table that wan't to play it. It...

Indeed. The flaw inherent in the "survival value is all-important" argument is that it has forgotten that survival is, always, merely a...