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You can watch the Professor DM video. He said the majority of events were 2014 (not 2024). He said that D&D had lots of tables that...

That's not what I've seen. From my angle, few are playing 2024 D&D (based on DND Beyond character numbers, GenCon events, and reported...

Well, I'll still be playing Daggerheart even if they're not. Very disappointed though. Was kinda hoping for a sea change in the hobby...

We had a one-shot game of high-level Swords & Wizardry for an online convention. The writer of the adventure (who's generally speaking a...

My most nostalgic period included a consistent group of my best friends. We were in college, so no real jobs or responsibilities. We...

Right. I would give first casting for free. That way you could count on "critical" utility castings at least one time. Other than that...

With the exception of my wife, I don't game with the others regularly. I also doubt my ability to run it well. Maybe, but she at least...

I'll comment on the three games I played. Con Game 1: was designed and run through Lurking Fears. I think they're something of the...

In my experience (and I think I've demonstrated plenty in this thread why it is atypical and full of bad takes), I think that...

So the Reaction Rolls are only for random encounters that aren't connected to the existing faction motivations, right? In the adventure...

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...