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No abuse here. I was introduced with the Basic & Expert boxed sets and quickly moved on to AD&D 1E. I bought my first copy of the Players Handbook at a bookstore in the mall and my mom was driving me to my friend's house right after (we both played a lot). On the way to my friend's, flipping...

Initially I was willing to lean that way but that doesn't seem to be what Mearls actually says but I am am sure that is possible.

Maybe I am missing something but blaming the OGL for D&D being uncool seems way off base. Wasn't it around the year 2000 that the OGL was first released and afterwards D&D rose in popularity? D&D 3.x sure seemed more popular than it's predecessors. I can't speak for 4E since I paid no attention...

I chose college because I have more college grads than anything else but it really ranges from high school to associates degrees to bachelors. Up until a few years ago I had a law school grad and a physicist playing in the same group (they moved).

This doesn't really answer the question of the thread but I never get pushback from my players. I am (mostly) the only one who buys the rulebooks and am the primary GM so they are generally willing to play whatever I want. When I abandoned Pathfinder 1E we had been playing D&D 3.x since it's...

An abomination to all the gods :p

I am nervously hopeful for this movie. I loved the first one. It was the only movie I have ever sat through the end credits without waiting for a mid or post credits scene, I was just emotionally exhausted and had to just sit there for a while. I feel like it stood fine on it's own and never...

Regardless of how you or I define hit points they don't really exist outside of the rules, hence why I say they, among other things in the game, are abstractions of what would actually happen in real life. Those abstractions, as defined by the rules, are what make the game playable but don't...

I am confused by your definition of abstract is. No one has hit points and they are definitely abstract descriptions of how a character absorbs damage. If I swing a sword at someone and do 1d8+ whatever modifiers of damage that does not translate to literal damage. If that total is 13 it's...

Honestly, the way it was used in one particular thread is probably why it irritated me. Like I said in my original post, it normally doesn't bother me.

RPGs and their mechanics are usuall,y meant to be absractionsand character sheets are meant to be a I view this as a duty of the DM; not allowing the character to use an attribute to justify their character doing what ever they want. If in a more modern game a player said "My character has a...

Your post was one of the posts I read this morning but it wasn't the one that annoyed me, it was in an older discussion I was reading and didn't participate in so no worries. Don't forget, I even said I was a grumpy old man :LOL: . I will be turning 57 next month and started playing with the...

I was reading various threads today and the word "grognard" came up a couple of times and, for some reason, the last time I saw it it really grated on my nerves even though it never had before. I am aware of the origins of the word, from Napoleon's Old Guard to today's usage in gaming, which...

If your DM showed up that infrequently and the rest of you didn't just start a new game without him you are far more tolerant than I would have been.

I never understood the hatred of THAC0. Granted, it's been years since I played 2E but my memory of it was that it wasn't hard to use. Has it been replaced by an "easier" system in newer editions? Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the level of difficulty behind THAC0 was pretty...

I am currently a player in a Pathfinder 1E campaign and we just started so the honest answer is I don't know, but since it's a pre-published adventure the odds are good there is a BBEG. The last campaign I ran, a Savage Worlds Plot Point adventure, had one. When I create my own adventures...

I don't play PF2 but was an avid PF1 GM (and still occasionally am a player) so maybe my unfamiliarity with PF2 makes this confusing but I don't get it. Don't the subclasses still end up different from the main class, effectively making them their own class with some overlap? Is it the overlap...

Cheers, The Good Place, The Sopranos, M.A.S.H., Babylon 5 & Star Trek: The Next Generation

I've carried around a copy of Starfleet Battles for decades and can't remember the last time I played it. I loved the game though.

I've downsized before and over time bought more games although I am not near where I once was. If the target is four games I would miss it by one but I would keep: Pathfinder 1E - I no longer run the game but one of my players picked up the GM duties and I am still the go-to rules guy so I...