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By stop you mean slaughter various humanoid tribes ... drive them from their home .... and take their wealth for yourself. All to...

Well, back in the day PC's were likely to try to rob the store, so it was really a dungeon and it therefore needed a map. Conversely...

How much work KotB needs to be done by the DM to "make it work" depends entirely on the kinds of information a particular DM thinks they...

Except that ~20 of the encounters in KotB explicitly tell the GM to attack the party immediately... KotB works best when you ignore...

And anyway, if we're playing by old school rules, all those humanoids in the Caves are inherently, irredeemably, monstrously evil. Why...

Attack on sight for chaotic monsters is in the core rules for Basic D&D, so the encounters don’t need to state it.

Faction Play in KotB is very sparely detailed, given only a single paragraph across 36 pages mentioning the idea of turning the various...

Little known fact: Jabba the Hutt is one of the most generous philanthropists in the galaxy. He just keeps his role secret to protect...

Having read a bunch of the classic TSR modules, I imagine that this was always the case when people remark on them fondly. That, or...

The NPCs barely have names, nevermind personalities, motivations and agendas. So there is nothing for the players to interact with...

Because it's a good example of "how to put together a very basic D&D adventure" for 12 year old newbies. Which is what it was written...

You can write “there is no plot” in a couple of seconds, you wouldn’t need an afternoon.

This is a problem with the Outgunned games and supplements too - everything is just ____ IP with the serial numbers (very lightly) filed...

Except that in a fantasy world, it doesn't have to be a cultural thing. You can have all dwarves inherently knowing the dwarven...

I think the mixed-level party is an inevitability in 1E. The idea of "balance" as we think about it today wasn't as prevalent in that...