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Looks like 3e DnD by the border on the pages.

While I don't fault people for doing what they want, well--people pound nails with wrenches, too.

Have now read Pet Semetary and Salems Lot. Pet Semetary starts a bit slower, with events and tension building up to the climax, that...

Yeah. Honestly there was a time when it was kind of endemic, though it had clearly spiraled out from D&D.

Not just Dragon, but if you read a lot of older RPGs from the time there's a lot of "The DM's word is LAW! Murder your player's...

Dispute it all you want, but I know how commonly I saw it in the 70's, and the answer was "a lot". And one of the reasons it was so...

I will say that I have been training myself to not pursue crowdfunding projects that have too many separately produced stretch goals. An...

In a skill-based system you could have a specialized skill that improves over time to control navigation there.

The big problem with staggered squares is that if you want to use battleboards, they're difficult at best to find physically and as far...

As I see it, this is just one of the trade-offs involved in game design. Sometimes, you know the game will be easier to work with on the...

I doubt there's a consensus on wanting that.

Well, "always" depends on how you interpret OD&D clerics, where there was simply no discussion of the matter at all. I suspect when...

Oh I am definitely not recommending having a small pool of players or DMs as a general remedy for any kind of problems with a gaming...

I'm evildmguy, and I'm a recovering KS TTRPG backer. Well, no, I have backed recently, so I guess I'm off the wagon. Of 132 backings...

Yep. I could make a decent character out of any of these, although I'd still want to choose placement. The last one in the list of 3...