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You know, something I've been thinking about lately is how the drastic reduction of save or die effects in the current edition has...

Oh dang, I forgot the goldbug was a save or die poison bite!

That's the thing - the reach of the hardcovers were greater than that of the modules. Back in the day I only had a few AD&D modules, but...

The Fiend Folio is pure concentrated AD&D weirdness. And it's got some game-defining entries. Drow and Lolth, Death Knights, Elemental...

I'm very sad we didn't get a Russ Nicholson retrospective art book before he died. The best we've got is the Magic Realms book, but...

Here is where I put my pitch for the Fiend Folio. Despite the fact that I still reach for the 1E DMG more than any other edition's DMG...

This was a tough one. In the end, I went with the PHB. It's the core of the game, after all, and what inspires you to dive into the...

Matching mechanics and tone is a big part of it. Some systems are designed with very specific goals that don't match certain genres or...

the key to Interlock as a system is that each Interlock game is an adapted core, much like how 2d20 and YZE games are... the procedures...

Yeah, DCC has some natural fits, like riffing off of Gamma World, as Goodman itself has done, but the mechanics have a very specific...

Totally. Also, the speed at which a session where the party stops to check every corridor for traps progresses would grind any dungeon...

I agree. In a sense, a treasure chest, the door to something secure, an altar, an idol, or a tomb are all themselves tells. They are...

You also see that with DCC RPG. As much as I think they're both great systems, I'm generally not a fan of using one system for every genre.

I finished reading Gibson's Virtual Light. So good. No idea why I read and re-read Neuromancer multiple times, but this only once. The...

It depends. I think there's a place for trapped locks and treasure chests without tells. Stuff you'd expect to have traps on it. A...