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Oh I forgot 13th Age: There was a lot I liked, and I only played 1e, but I didn’t like how some classes had randomly-activated...

Here’s the spinoffs and adjacent I own and have played and my take… TotV: if you’re looking for 2014 style D&D with some new tricks and...

I like this theory but wasn’t this piece by Larry Elmore? I’ve never seen him without a beard.

Ritchie Blackmore & Candice Night have a “bardcore” band (Blackmore’s Night) that plays some of his old Deep Purple & Rainbow stuff as...

That’s Bill. He’s a real estate novelist who never had time for a wife.

Yes I played it in the day, and while I still go back and read some of the materials and even adapt some of the old adventures, I’ve...

well, some group somewhere out there in the world might have played 1e RAW. But every group I ever was in had a lot of 'rules not...

I don't think I ever played RAW. As a teenager, we didn't master the rules, ignored things we didn't understand fully or that were too...

I know no group I ever played with back in the day played it RAW; there were some who definitely tried, but each table I gamed with did...

See this is one of those cases where GG shot himself in the foot and then insisted it was fine. RAW initiative is MUCH easier to run...

I was moving in the other direction before I gave up in frustration with how enormous my house rules were becoming. I had moved to a 10...

Same here. Casting seems to run on a 10-segment round where everything else uses a 6-segment round; and it was never clear to me...

My group actually tried both weapon speed and weapon vs. AC values. We found weapon speed to be supremely ridiculous. Yeah, I suppose...

Yes, absolutely. Not a chance. As mentioned there are too many contradictory rules, too many exceptions, etc. You'd need a computer to...

Well, my version of Nulb is significantly different from the one in ToEE. It has the same basic shape, but it has been taken over by...