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No, I’m suggesting that the module did not tell you how you should play it, and people interpreted it in different ways. Gygax...

You are assuming the PCs want to kill the orcs because they are good. In fact, there is no particular reason why the PCs should care...

The series justifies that by pointing out that the Maginot crew are cheap and expendable, and the hybrids are kids, with the lack of...

Plenty of real world see pods explode. Just not usually fruit, and not usually doing that much damage. The puzzle needs to have some...

My memory of those days, it was usually the PCs. Which fits with the Conan inspiration - thief, murderer and rapist as he was (This...

My players like halflings and warforged. And we have had a couple of gnomes. But I don't think my players are choosing based on power or...

This adventure was for Basic rules. It's didn't have good and evil, only Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic (and there was no recommendation as...

I'm sure they weren't. Most of my players weren't, and they have children of their own now! But nostalgia is even stronger in people...

I'm not sure the target audience for this product was even alive when B2 came out. And it's my understanding that there's still an evil...

Most of them don’t scale well at high level though.

There is a difference between being mechanically strong and being interesting. The wisdom save advantage is only really good if you...

As written, the fruit explode irrespective of if they fall in the water or not. This room is already extremely trivial in 5e, if...

If it’s like a coconut the fruit will be clustered around the trunk, and thus fall in the centre of the tree’s space.

See, I've never agreed with that part. Use potions. Hire an NPC healer to adventure with you. Something else. A cleric's role isn't...

They were graded Inadequate.