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I think that’s common element in horror. The audience knows they are safe, because they aren’t dumb enough to go up into the dark attic...

Someone’s Law: In real life, people do stupid things all the time. In fiction it’s bad writing.

The whole point of 1st edition is the players make the decisions. If you want someone else to do it you are playing it wrong.

Because Gygax, et al. weren't particularly good technical writers. Remember, the need to say thing in particular ways so they'd be...

It does work, so long as you remember that 1st edition rules are just guidelines. Which is how you should be playing anyway, otherwise...

Lead flattens if you stand on it, and has a rough pitted surface. I.e. people wouldn’t roll on lead balls. You would do better with...

Sure, there are a lot more anachronistic foodstuffs mentioned at the unexpected party in The Hobbit too. I tend to tailor what is being...

None, directly. BG1 was referencing Basic D&D lore, some of the kobold rumours are direct quotes from Keep on the Borderlands.

I know it well so it’s easy to trot out odd bits of lore. And these days I can’t be bothered with homebrewing a world. Done that. I...

Seems unlikely unless your players are in the habit of taking a long rest after every encounter. There are wandering monsters. Could...

A rest only takes 8 hours.

Same problem with Undead Restoration. Once down he is out until the end of the adventure. The PCs will just knock him down and carry on...

Some strangeness on the bar menu. Isn't "honey mead" an oxymoron? All mead is made from honey. And are they trying to suggest that...

Trouble is the bearings need to be hard steel, and I don't think it's possible to use that method with steel. Iron and other metals...

I don't have the 2024 rules, so I'm not able to gauge it. I just know the 2014 one was rubbish. But the stat block doesn't matter. The...