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What do i need a system to do for me? Right now, yard work. Like, that lawn needs mowing something fierce...

I was feeling done with the internet in general and rpg related stuff online. Probably at the tail end of a depressive episode. But I...

More to the point, even if the premise that "this was how the game was intended" was true, at the end of the day, you'd have to say it...

It could definitely be a spritely--albeit sometimes wacky--apa. (I was a contributor during that period, but was, shall we say, young).

I'm all for the historical deep dives. And if a given game form is fun, I'm not super worried about how popular it is, except insofar...

This is a really interesting quote. "When we get the campaign into high gear, there is considerable competition between three or four...

I don't disagree, I think the possibility of this kind of play and some mechanics to support it exist within OD&D, but they are...

When it comes to this sort of thing, I don't think that's a virtue, and with the normal game, as I noted its a nonissue. I also note...

Really this whole argument boils down to 1. Most of the thread has been people arguing against 1, but I don't think any of us have been...

As I recall it was probably a year. But you do need to remember this was 1975.

Afraid I'm no help since we just pull the plug. Edit: that said, one player dropping wouldn't do that; if that happens someone else...

Replace "culture" with "RPG play style" and you have most of the board's arguments about "game design" neatly summed up.

I'm interested to see how they handle the mixed enemy pool situation for superheroes as well. One thought I had, similar to @Ruin...

I think its a little more critical here, since the "intelligence test" part can have the PCs doing things that feel pretty...

The question comes when its time for the enemies to attack the heroes; which can attack whom? In the normal mechanics its a nonissue...