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As a player there is one module I have played in twice in over 40+ years of playing. The Sunless Citadel. Different setup, different experience, different editions running the same 3e module, no real big secret or deep familiar knowledge conflicts for me. I played in 3e pbp game of it on here...

I think it would make more sense with the parenthetical right at the beginning rather than the end as paladins and rangers are subclasses of fighter. The part I don’t remember is it pushing to use home made over pre built settings. The DMG talked a little about creating your own with stuff like...

I'd have to look up the specific timeline. I was always more of a big picture for Greyhawk country and historical lore. The Great Kingdom and its areas of control were still reaching across about a third of the continent starting on the east coast in the 1e boxed set (they lost a ton in the 2e...

4e was designed to go quicker per person per round than 3e with more depth of combat than 3e or AD&D but to also go more rounds with huge hp on both sides of the PC monster split to lead to epic action movie back and forth combats as a default. In execution this worked pretty well but there was...

You are right, that is the normal supply dice thing but there is an exception for ammo. I missed the last bit from Black Hack 2e usage die explanation after the column break and just registered the normal usage part. LIMITED RESOURCES AND THE USAGE DIE When an item described has Ud and then a...

Greyhawk is set on a geography fairly close to the United States and Canada with a history of a vast generally historically unified but now fallen empire. Common as English works for me as an American. :)

I suggested two 5e initiative systems for the face to face games i was playing in to speed up turn transition and reduce order tracking time: 1 Everyone rolls init normally but the order goes from highest first then around the table in seating arrangement order starting with them so it is...

I find that usage die mechanics would often be more cumbersome than actually tracking individual arrows if you are adding a roll after each bow shot and then possibly needing to adjust your supply rating. Again with my high level fighter shooting five arrows a round five extra die rolls and...

My friend was in Wisconsin where I went to college, but I have been on the east coast for the last 27 years and none of my local groups here had any overlap besides me and would not have gotten any references. His big character in the game we played in was Gimle the high level dwarf fighter who...

The sources I have from 1e to 3e never really covered how Iuz the Old became a demigod either with a mostly mysterious past. 5e is weird in calling him both a demigod and full god and then making distinctions about demigods not granting spells but listing him as a full spell-granting god on...

Also these 5e battlezoo feats are based on and compared with 14 5e feats and not the 24 origin and other type feat categories and baseline of 24 5e?

I remember that PF2e remastered dropped a bunch of D&Disms like alignment and chromatic and metallic dragons along with the OGL, were demons such as mariliths in that dropped group as well?

That is only 24 5e for sorcerers and wizards where they get all simple weapons, in 14 5e they only got light crossbow proficiency and not shortbows. Warlocks got all simple weapons in both 14 and 24 PHs.

I think that raises a different problem. Some games have a lot of one shot death potential and they make combat much more tense with big consequences. Low level D&D particularly older D&D, lots of save or die in old D&D or potential rocket tag in high level 3e, WFRP unless you are designed as...

Thanks for posting the MM and DMG sections. I am getting my sources from the post I was directly responding to and the threads on the Greyhawk lore in the 24 DMG. I don't have direct access to either of the 24 MM or DMG lore (I only have the 24 PH and the 14 MM and DMG). So the posts I had...

My condolences. I had a friend from college who I played in a D&D game with who died as well but it was a number of years ago and I did not incorporate him in my games. Options that come to mind though. Did you do an ongoing campaign in college where he had a signature PC who could become an...

How so? Most mundane ammo tracking analogous items like daily rations in number of meals are not super useful for a lot of contexts. Are you talking about basically giving everyone summon appropriate individual minor item abilities?

The problem with leave lore for setting books is that there is no baseline lore a setting can rely upon or diverge from. The 24 DMG provides no monster lore for its sample Greyhawk setting and relies upon the MM or the DM to fill in its blanks. Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance and...

It always seemed feasible in my view for D&D archers to run out of arrows in an adventure, though less likely in a single fight. AD&D archers shot two arrows a round from level 1, and specialists could get off a third with an opening strike. 3.5 archers really got going with iterative attacks...