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Yeah, there were definitely people who at least espoused an Agatha Christie approach to adventure creation and this is still common in...

Oh I'm sure that's true. I don't think we'd have got here if not, and I don't think it's any accident the GMing advice in virtually...

Yea, not much talk about "Monty Haul" anymore. In a weird backwards way it kinda makes me nostalgic....mix it with munchkin gaming and...

It's rarely if ever the same spammer blasting the site more than once, as far as I've been able to tell, so ignoring them won't help...

The community is also built off of decades of normal people being the DM and providing fair and fun play. Ultimately what we are...

While I think the play styles for DnD were more varied and somewhat less adversarial than folks propose (this is anecdotal on both sides...

There were people giving that advice, at least by the early 1980s. It was TSR that was still driving adversarial gaming - as mentioned...

I don't have any comments about how much you saw it. I dispute that hobby-wide it was common in the past but not now. There are people...

Imagine how 1e clerics felt; they went 20 levels without any mechanics to differentiate them from clerics of other deities!

Yeah, this idea that in the dark old days GMs tended to be bad and understanding how to run a good game is some kind of new discovery...

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I feel there was more of the "before their time" DMs than people think. I only recall one bad then. But the "killer" DMs certainly...

My Warforged are blatantly Decepticon. But I had to Homebrew transformation in Combiners or guns

Fortunate for me as a early Millennial, TMNT will always be popular. Just need D&D to do Transformers, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave...

In the early days of D&D there was an almost punishing emphasis on DM control of all aspects of game play, especially the campaign...