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Been playing some OD&D/Chainmail sessions when they pop up. same with CoC and Traveler - CoC tomorrow actually been running a 1E game fairly regularly 5E I have many arguments with, but if it brings more players together I would play it, or run it , houseruled and w/o minis

I no longer have the schedule. It was a port from 4E, took place in Waterdeep I believe. Comprised of long sections of DM reading soap opera dialog interspersed with railroaded combats, grindingly played out on a battlemat. I had just come out of a morning session playing Temple of the Frog...

The playtest I was in had a good DM, but man, the adventure was pure railroad garbage. It involved a lot of political stuff and ended with a battle in a ballroom with sealed doors. Worst written module I've ever played in. Once I separated the ick of that from the rules, I found 5E too dice...

Thanks for that, makes sense to me. Seems a good way to maintain a challenge to high levels with certain things, rather than making already deadly poison increasingly deadly via a minus to save.

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I have two leather C&C books that don't seem full of errors. But the reputation is so bad I won't buy any more of their stuff. Typos turned me off to 2E, it's inexcusable imo (beyond a few rare errors) i also just plain don't need C&C, AD&D works better for me anyway. what do you think of the...

I don't think I like ability checks very much. My 2 cents - there is nothing broken about O/AD&D saving throws, why not use those?

The XP tables themselves go off like clockwork in a campaign, beautifully balanced. I see it especially , perhaps ironically, with 2E CRPGs. Who'd have thunk, EGG actually knew what he was doing. : ) As for training, that is probably a better question for another forum. Maybe ask Frank...

Balance is a good thing, but IMO best handled by designers, which every player is not. We have too many rules-lawyery, player-driven design choices, based on a very narrow, class vs. class notion of balance. take 1E experience tables. These are beautifully balanced. But if players don't...

There is a term for such people: Rules Lawyers. They are a bane to any table, and abound on forums. Fortunately, they don't get out much.

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Yeah, who knows without any numbers. It certainly gets played a lot at conventions as far as I can tell. Who knows what is "sustainable" to WoTC. I tend to disdain 4E mechanics, but as a fellow gamer, I hate to see its fans not satisfied. But 13th Age or something like that could do for it...

I know some of you hate to hear this, but DM fiat is extremely important with amorphous skills, and how they apply to classes. That Ranger may not have to roll where another character does. And player description of what they are actually doing weighs heavily on a DC.

Also, in the novels, "the Companions" was the term to describe the group, rather than Party, or Fellowship, etc.

yes, but the perennial favorites don't get redesigned nearly so often, with the previous game kicked to the curb so to speak. When I played Battletech at an October convention, 20 years had passed since last I played it, and apart from minor tweaks it was the same game.

I don't believe it is, although apparently it was at some point. A forum member complained of low quality scans, whenever it was. I don't see a Holmes pdf either. It just seems nuts to own the rights to all these games, and never print anything new for any of them. Especially with 3.x and...

Very few board games and wargames are so slash-and-burn as the RPG industry. I observe things are shifting, though, with WotC and the industry in general. First, we have what began with the 1E reprints. I severely doubt these premium reprints would have expanded so dramatically had they not...

I hope 4E does see perennial support. It's dumb to create a game, generate a fanbase, and then abandon it. It does seem WotC have seen the light in this respect.

I don't think the OP is right. I'll tell you what turned me off to TSR in mid-late 2E. Content was tepid, but what lost me as a customer was frequent typos. Absolutely no excuse for that in publishing. I hear no such negative feedback on the later 4E releases. Further, WotC, like early TSR, is...