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Since I’ve been told I’ve been judging Arcane Library’s Shadowdark adventures unfairly, I’m doing a quick read through of “Fortress of...

Also - in the wisdom of that GM - he wanted to "skip to the good parts." This meant avoiding all the faction play on the upper tiers and...

Yes. And this wasn't one of the convention games. It was being run by a GM who had been a player in my group going back to the AD&D 2E...

Right, I found that OSE didn't match my expectations of old school play, but I was hopeful that another branch of the OSR might. Maybe...

I don't think I fully understood that until my string of bad sessions. I had a nostalgia for how I played old TSR D&D, but that's not...

I think if they don't have a solid grounding, that you're going to have the experience I had at the convention. Maybe they watched a lot...

You're conflating bad design and not being financially successful. I don't deny SD's popularity or financial success. However, I do...

Seems correct - assuming you get to the +4. My character did not because I didn't get to make my own character. For my preferences...

For me, I think the golden era is still going strong. There are many varieties of games. Heck, even I am finding new systems I like...

The problem is that there's nothing to tell them that they're not following the rules or that they're being bad GMs. Because when you...

No Luck tokens. I don't have the character sheet on hand, but let's say I had a +2 from Intelligence. I don't recall any advantage on...

We did not have the choice. We were beset by mindless giant insects with no advance warning and couldn't escape if we tried. It was run...

A fighter isn't limited to 2 swings of a sword per day. A miss with a martial attack doesn't mean that your character is "spent" for the...

I agree. Even Gygax didn't stick to the 3d6 in order. It's been a mess since AD&D, and shouldn't be a standard method, because you end...

Or worse yet: Chessex's convention specials that actually replace the 1 AND the 20, making them completely useless.