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Actually, it confuses me. If you started playing in 76, you would have had to have started with oD&D, as AD&D wasn't out yet. If you...

I think the largest issue is splitting the focus/how to keep others engaged while the focus hovers on one character to the exclusion of...

I suspect it is already too late to have a meaningful effect. I would advocate a clarification or follow-up on your original tweet, as...

'salright. I thought I was being 'Ackchyually'-ed by someone deliberately misrepresenting what I'd said to get the opportunity to...

Only if 1) the walking away from others does not have an opportunity cost/incur some other vulnerability, and 2) if enemies actually do...

And here I was thinking you were suggesting a solar flare or asteroid impact.

Interesting. My experience was that most groups I knew of BitD didn't consider them optional. Someone had to play the thief (the...

This is an interesting (set of) point(s). Fireball is low tier if you don't use the enemies it is best at (in part because it tends to...

Transmuter to Fighter/Thief: "I don't think you're going to get lucky tonight, this is a pray bar."

I mean, sure. The 'completely different games' bit is anti-Arneson-lawsuit boilerplate, so you can add stuff on to...

Okay, seriously -- I literally mentioned the wizard part of that in the text block you quoted. As for specialty priests, yeah I'm not...

Okay, but I hazard it was a rather special case. You were running HP attrition too fast to keep up with through other means, yes? It was...

Let's level-set. This is not 3E Pun-Pun, or Ice Assassins and Demiplanes, or Find City nukes/commoner black holes or other things which...

I'm not even sure NWPs fit as distinctly 2e, as nearly-identical mechanisms showed up in late 1E (OA, WSG, DSG). Great question! The...

I do suspect a lot of people want B/X but with paladins and demons and maybe spell disruption or 18/## Strength or 1d8/1d12 (s-m/l)...