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2016 or 2023? Not to be confused with Duel (1971) which is frickin' awesome.

Having been that sometimes-angry young man who fenced, both it and the Duelist class for AD&D naturally stuck in my mind. :LOL:

Dragon Magazine #73 Duelist and WFRP Protagonist have entered the chat. https://wfrp1e.fandom.com/wiki/Protagonist https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Protagonist#:~:text=Protagonists%20are%20professional%20bullies.,brawl%20with%20the%20chosen%20target.

Yeah, that's mostly the same stuff I still have. I was just a bit thrown by your reference to converting Matchbox cars for use with it, because Matchbox (and Hot Wheels) are roughly 1/64 scale, or around 2.5"-3" long, as opposed to the 1" long counters all those old sets use. ...but now my...

I liked Legend. It is a bit rough in spots but a good tale. I read a couple of others, dipped my toe in the Rigante series, but didn't care for them much. I did like his final trilogy, the Trojan War historical novels, which as I recall his wife finished up from his notes after he passed away...

Here are the tables I used for my last longterm game. This was a three year old school campaign which was a mashup of B/X and 5 Torches Deep, and I used 5TD's death & dismemberment table. If you got dropped to 0HP you were unconscious, and had to be healed or bandaged within 1 minute or by the...

Which ones? I quite liked some of the early ones, particularly Mike Stackpole's Warrior trilogy (En Garde, Riposte, and Coupé), which predate his later very successful Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series which he's more famous for. I also have fond memories of Heir to the Dragon and Wolves on the...

Playing online through VTTs has to some extent helped compensate for the individualized electronic entertainment factor. If everyone's not having to drive/commute to the game, and if you can play with friends who are geographically scattered over the region, country, or even the world, that...

Gaslands is great. Got to try it out at a convention not long ago and really enjoyed the simpler mechanics than Car Wars. Mad Jack, which edition of Car Wars was that? I originally had the plastic mini black box plus some later supplements, but those were all scaled for use on regular graph...

It's also a non-representative sample. People who are motivated enough about D&D to go on the internet and talk about it with strangers are a small minority. But people who want to complain or are looking for help or advice are inherently more motivated than people who are content or happy. I...

The GM setting a day and keeping and recruiting players who can make that day is one of the classic solutions. Another is settling on one timeslot that does work for everyone and getting people to commit to it- so they avoid scheduling anything which would conflict with it. Here's another good...

Mostly they are just littler areas of civilization. Maybe that's part of why Howard writes of Conan's origins in the abstract, and never(?) describes Cimmeria in detail. One thing that also occurs to me is that perhaps another reason is that Tarzan preceded Howard's writing, and was immensely...

All of the people you're talking about, living in places with television and electricity and professional law enforcement and elections and running water, are living in much more civilized places than Conan was glorifying. The percentage of people who live in anything like the barbaric frontier...