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I agree (though I don't want to be drowned in detail). If I'm buying a module I'm paying for someone else's creativity. Someone to give me ideas I wouldn't have necessarily come up with on my own. If the writing is good, it will also enhance my own improvisations and steer them in new and fun...

TBF, expectations about keeping PCs poor were largely set by Gygax's extremely influential advice in the 1979 DMG. The modules and XP charts expecting PCs to acquire tens and eventually hundreds of thousands of GP in treasure were in constant tension with Gary's instructions (and black and...

Daði? Yes, and some modern adventures (like the official ones for OSE from Necrotic Gnome) deliberately structure area descriptions in layers like this, with broad details at first glance and nested/indented further details for when the players ask about/examine something specific. Others...

I suspect you're right. In the different context he might describe it more as Not For Me, although that's not always within his shorthand idiom, when in review or rant mode. In this 2016 interview he retroactively describes 2010/2011 him as being a jerk, so it seems like in retrospect he was...

Right. Combat was either very simple or you get into challenging judgement calls if the DM is put on the spot to invent a fair ruling for a special maneuver. Yes, there is definitely an art and a science to it. Sometimes even a good room NAME can give substantial help to the DM in improvising...

It's a good piece. Before I followed the link I was going to link to @Gus L 's 7 Maxims of the OSR post, which breaks down several of these shorthand phrases and explains their origins and where people go wrong with them, ...and then I saw that the author linked to that right up front. :LOL: I...

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...