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While it’s probably forgotten now, but 2E initiative was the best the game has ever had. Roll low mechanic is the best for initiative...

TSR tried exploiting the contract with Random House and it totally backfired on them, which had to be predictable by those in charge...

There was a recent episode of Reading D&D Aloud where Ben Riggs gets into this with a guest and it’s actually rather apologetic towards...

While there are definitely major blunders, some aspects could also be positive. The Dragonlance books, much though I may decry the...

In all my life, I never saw a single person say they were running TSR Buck Rogers games. I know Gygax got a lot of crap for some of his...

I’ve got two of them actually. Apparently it was more expensive than they were selling it at and it didn’t move well. I’m trying to...

Along the lines of Braunsteins, though, back in the 90s I did used to LARP. And one of the distinguishing features of LARP games was...

It also corresponded with the planned release of the 1E Battlesystem boxed set IIRC. At the time, I think Ral Partha was the licensed...

The question would be, basically, how much the fantasy miniature wargaming fandom and the fantasy roleplaying fandom overlaps, and even...

I find the ideas fascinating, but also find the realities of getting several others to also share in that opinion as well the logistics...

I don't see anywhere where they're claiming that Braunstein is fantasy.

Which is a great point. There was an attempt in the late 1E and early 2E period to go this route with Battlesystem. The classic H-series...

I'm a few years older. Started with BECMI then rapidly jumped to AD&D, played AD&D a lot in the early to mid 90s. I had a break from it...

I'm 46 and started playing in 1990 and quit in late 1999 when I joined the US Navy. I made a lot of game product purchases during the 3E...

3E, for the record. When I first got into it 4E was new, but the scene had been around for several years. Dragonsfoot.org forum custom...