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So, a troll-necromancer walks by, they manage to raise this thread before being banned, the movie is - unfortunately - on Prime Video, I...

Absolutely. Gary's instructions in this adventure do go directly against the best-practice wisdom of using reaction rolls and letting...

And what a fantastic move for him.

Both Moldvay and Mentzer have rules for monsters' reactions. There is no stipulation of monsters always attacking, except in specific...

The way that Metaplots in various TTRPGs have turned out have left a bad taste in general. They lost their appeal sometime between 2000...

Yeah, I think there is a certain allure to the idea of a metaplot. In theory it could foster a strong shared cultural experience among...

I think it also was done to foster a certain shared "community" aspect to D&D. Most players can tell stories about facing Strahd or...

It's wild to me that someone can say with a straight face that there's nothing to do in KotB except go to the caves and murder everyone...

Yes, but I was simply joking. After all, I'm likely to use an "Italianized" pronunciation for most of those imaginary toponyms.

I think it's a combination of emulating source fiction (The Grey Mouser and Fafhrd both famously used a dagger in their off hands, see...

Having ran B2 several times as an adult, I obviously disagree. BTW, it's great that people who disagree with the good opinion about B2...

See, the lesson is never cry "Wolf!"

Scary movie voice .... The source is coming from .... within this forum! (Before you think he might have just been joking, there are...

What is the source for this? I'm not asking because I doubt the veracity, but because I'd like to erase that source from the face of...

By the way, while we are talking about the multiverse, I wanted to offer this trivia. I wanted to call it a "fun fact," but it isn't...