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The TSR-era contained multitudes, pretty much from the beginning (and certainly by '75-'76, once the supplements started coming out). It...

The one I deal with level drain (heavily home brewed first edition) is characters lose the level not experience, meaning they need to go...

I don't think this is entirely helpful. And it's not really true. From day 1, streamlining and removing rules to appeal to newer gamers...

I guess I don't really agree that loss of XP for gold makes a game "no longer gritty". XP for gold just drives towards less combat, but...

Almost every 1e group I played with dropped/changed all of those. There's a lot more to 1e than just those things. And a lot to 3e that...

Yeah, I think Gary was definitely writing from a context with more adversarial/opportunistic players. In retrospect, though, "have an...

This thread is like an Edition Cold War. :LOL:

Magic fountains were in the DMG. It didn't say what the fountain would do, but the tricks appendix did include a secret door to them...

The 1e DMG is a work of art. I ran 2e a few years back but made heavy use of the tables in that DMG. I started with 2e and the Mentzer...

I'm going to ignore everything related to preferences, aesthetic, nostalgia, hero worship, etc, and look at the simple issue of defining...

To clarify: Visa and Mastercard don't just offer credit. They facilitate payments, and most banks and financial institutions rely on...

None of the links work for me, I think it might be US only.

These books go the extra mile to be inclusive to a broad range of people, reflecting the Cosmere fandom.

Finding GMs to run 130 sessions of your game is an impressive feat and tells me it has some level of interest.

They are putting out a generic fantasy iteration of the rules, and a free open license SRD.