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...wha? Why on Earth would they think that's a good idea? It's clearly not meant to be an in-combat spell...any spell with a casting...

Thing is, I think WotC already put out a massive over 300 page vook last year that covers the biggest playstyles...the new DMG.

The last time I used a front door trap, the PCs got caught by it:

When the PCs entered the Forgotten Temple Complex, I rolled a 13 for the town event: Dimly lit portal. You pass an open shrine and see...

The adventure site that I had written up, posted in my previous post upthread, turned out to be a bit of a disaster for the PCs. (Which...

It took about eight months longer than anticipated to play our next session of Torchbearer 2e, but we finally got a session in...

If the NPC Elf can stumble over this book in his youth, why can't the PCs? Why are only PCs obliged to adventure in order to find it?

Dungeon/Exploration Turns. These dictate resource management and the possibility of random encounters, key aspects of dungeon...

It does appear in B/X and OSE at least, and most NSR games I've seen? Core dungeon procedure: Turn starts, decide Actions Check for...

Exactly. The Forge and the OSR were both branches that were in direct repudiation of Hickman-style storytelling that dominated in the ‘90s.

Connecting the Hickman Revolutionaries to the Forge in the way you seem to here is, in my opinion, a significant misread of the Forge...

Sure. The idea that elves who live hundreds of years and who seem to have some innate connection to magic would somehow not be able to...

I never said there was. I know the (Gygaxian) AD&D rules pretty well. What I said, which you quoted, is this: There is a clear process...