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Hey, I haven't looked through this thread for a while... looks through thread now I remember why....

I don't think any of the PCs in my college campaign had psionics... not because the DM forbid them, but because IIRC, it was kinda hard to get them. The one time I remember them being used was in one of those bad cases of "The DM runs his own PC in our group to beef up the numbers, and he's way...

the DM in my college group ran us through the Citadel module, one of the last published adventures I went through with them, as I finished college at the end of the semester that Dec. Most of what I remember is that we were really slow in figuring out the mystery, and didn't do so well in...

there were some pretty good hints even back in early 1E days that EGG had some issues... some of his remarks in Dragon didn't reflect well on him. Not to mention, there were also indications that he wasn't a real businessman either. Lots of people overlooked all that because he was undeniably...

IIRC, AQ was a bit odd in that it was designed to be exactly a 3 year line and no more...

I'm mildly curious as to just how many products there were for the Buck Rogers line compared to other failed lines in the Williams years. Some, like Maztica, had just a handful of products, while Spelljammer had dozens. My (increasingly) foggy mind doesn't recall just how many items there were...

that is probably the most succinct and accurate way of putting it. Kudos...

I never really regarded her as a villain in the whole thing, and we all owe her our gratitude in selling TSR to WOTC. But. I still will give her grief over the whole Buck Rogers thing. It might 'have been worth a shot', but it was obvious early on that it wasn't doing well, and should have...

I always thought it was leftover cultists who didn't get smacked down in the battle that took down the Temple...

I still have the CD archive too, but have no idea how to make it work with Win11. Haven't looked at it in years....

I think that was kinda common back in the day. In my first group back in ye olde college days, we had the (rather non-serious) Church of Fred, who worshiped the great god Fred, and all the clerics were named Fred. Alas, the poor Freds left their bones in many a famous location, all the way...

one place in the Caves that would logically have healing potions /scrolls would be the evil temple... they are a bunch of clerics, and even though they're nasty and evil, they would still find it useful to have healing stuff around... of course, the temple is the last of they Caves they are...

so was I, although I just converted some of the monsters I'd developed from my 2E home campaign into 3E stats...

not sure how obscure it was, but I recall a rule about fighters getting one attack per level when facing critters with less than 1HD. I remember it being useful when you were level 4-5, but after that, the DM generally stopped throwing hordes of kobolds at you....

the two part article about the Hells is among my favorites from the Dragon era....

Heh. Way back in the final days of TSR, not long before they went under completely, I sent in an article to Dragon on exactly this, putting stats to 'fearsome critters' (come to think of it, that was the name of the article). Needless to say, it took awhile to get an answer what with the WOTC...

of all the quirks of the 1E rules, descending AC was the only one that really annoyed me. I'm not sure why, but it always seemed just so nonsensical, particularly when magic armor had plusses that you had to subtract, etc. I tried a few times to develop ascending AC rules, but never got it...

I'm in charge of D&D? well, hey, it had a good run, 50 years is a long time...

1. Powerful magicians exist in the D&D worlds. 2. Alcohol also exists in the D&D worlds. and this is how you get owlbears and chimeras....

like a lot of readers, I rolled up and tried out a cavalier PC after this article came out... and found the 'never retreat' rule was a mixed blessing...