Recent content by Shadow Demon

Well, that is it for me. WoTC and I have come to the fork in the road. I have never been positive about WoTC during 3e & 4e era. The D&D brand has come to the end of the line for me. I have outgrown any further patience for their nonsense. There are too many other games that exist that are in...

At least “peoples” is better choice than Pf2e ancestries which is nonsensical to me. So, I think as I am building a character: “Do I want him to be of the elvish people with a drow ancestry?” I guess it can grow on me.

‘Yep. they are all monsters.A D&D Monster is any potential NPC adversary of a PC party. The MM is a generalized list of creatures that are not specific to any particular time or place. A mythological figure is always a specific character tied to a particular time and place.

To each their own. I can shrug my shoulders and roll my eyes because they are not. Hey, in a fantasy game up can be down and down can be up. With a background in engineering physics and a Christian belief, I find the inclusion of Tesla and David to be on the edge of offensive.

So, Billy the Kid, Cleopatra, Confucius, Genghis Khan, George Washington, Harry Houdini, Nikola Tesla and etc are considered “mythological figures”? These are historical figures with possble elements of exaggeration. Even the inclusion of David is a stretch especially for those of...

To each their own regarding bounded accuracy: One person’s awesomeness is to another cheese. I love 5e and bounded accuracy but if I had to play PF2 my eyes would be damaged due to excess rolling.

The best way to play OD&D is to play B/X (3LBB + Greyhawk + revisions of Moldvay/Cook/Marsh). Better yet, just go with Old School Essentials by Necrotic Gnome (a near perfect retroclone of B/X but better organized). Going back to RAW OD&D is really an archeological dig that is an acquired taste.

I would love to know what specific mechanics that Arneson contributed in 1e core. Being generous the monk and assassin from Blackmoor come to mind. Alas, we shall never know.

None taken. Just a difference in opinion on Kuntz’s credibility. The D&D mechanics were a collaborative effort. If the truth is the Gygax’s were less than believed it doesn’t make Arneson’s more.

You are correct if Rob Kuntz is indeed correct which I would say he is not. Rob contributed to the Greyhawk OD&D supplement and bit to Deities & Demigods. So.his mechanical contribution is slightly more than Arneson. Arneson had a great idea but his mechanical contribution to the early game is...

The above gives Arneson way to much credit. The 1971 line item is only correct item that gives him credit for the role-playing concept. The only mechanics that made it in D&D by Arneson were contributed in Blackmoor OD&D supplement; the rest were by Gygax plus many others. Arneson had zero...

I think Oriental Adventures marked the beginning of "Revised 1e" until the release of 2e. It really doesn't fit with Classic D&D although I agree it isn't setting specific (i.e in the same way as the Dragonlance and Greyhawk books) and fills out the non-western genre.

I never liked OA. It was actually written by David "Zeb" Cook with Gary's name on the cover. Dave did a much better job with 2e core. In hindsight, I think it is best of AD&D minus all of the splat before and after its release.

I would agree that starting with UA that there were a lot of poorly thought ideas for options. Gary Gygax had reached his nadir in game design. He was never going to be able to make anything better that what had come before. The game wasn't going to move forward without the involvement of...

There will never be another edition that reboots D&D. The basic core is going to stay the same with only future tweaking of class archetypes or additional tactical options.