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I'm solidly in the "forever!DM and happy about it" camp. I don't really enjoy playing, and the main reason for that is, nobody will ever DM a game the way I'd do it! I'm particular. I like building worlds, I like designing dungeons, I like kitbashing together core rules and house rules, and I...

The 2e barbarian (CBHB) could be LG, LN, TN, NG, or CG. The shaman from the same book had the same alignment restrictions—no Evil or CN allowed. (In 3e, the CD spirit shaman could be of any alignment.) The 2e psionicist (CΨHB) and 2e ninja (CNHB) could not be Chaotic. (In 3e, the psion and the...

The problem with ye auld "why not just play a board-game if you aren't going to get into character?" chestnut is that board games are generally constrained by rigid rules, don't have a human referee, and don't allow for tactical infinity. If you want improv acting, you can do a freeform LARP or...

Well I did say mostly. As in, I don't require/allow most characters to pick an alignment. I see no reason to impose that on players, and most players (even if I clearly explain the Moorcockian/Gygaxian cosmic perspective or the Andersonian faerie-tale perspective to them) still take alignment to...

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Every dictionary I've ever looked at says "ar-TIFF-uh-sir." Same emphasis as "photographer" or "psionicist." Or "altimeter" and "multimeter" (and "kilometer" and "odometer"…).

While I (mostly) don't find alignment useful and therefore didn't vote in the poll, I wouldn't use either of the OP's definitions. They rely too much on character behavior or beliefs. Alignment is cosmic—it's either allegiance to a big, universal "side", or some inherent quality in a being's...

Best avoided altogether when players are at the table together, their characters adventuring in a party. Totally expected when high-level characters attain political power and it's time to break out the Diplomacy and Chanmail sets.

#1 is merfolk. Unusual, mysterious, a variety of folkloric portrayals ranging from dangerous and fey and to playful and benevolent. That they're found in all mythologies worldwide, but they figure with especial prominence in Irish folklore, is particularly appealing to my Irish-American...

I toed that official line to a tee back in the day. Never mixed D&D with AD&D, because the D&D books said not to (and the AD&D books generally never acknowledged D&D's existence—because of course they didn't, TSR was in the business of pushing AD&D, and they only kept D&D in print because they...

OD&D (1974) is the right answer. Because it's always the right answer — except for those times when the right answer is HeroQuest.

And 1 XP was awarded for keeping 1 GP worth of treasure found during the adventure. It's difficult to overstate just how important that is in driving play — with that rule in place, you quite literally never have to "dangle hooks" in front of the players. They'll seek out dungeons on their own...

I've only attended NukeCon once. Ran Palace of the Silver Princess using Holmes Basic + Greyhawk/Blackmoor/EW. The party handled the encounters on the first level fairly well; but up on the second level, they ran afoul of an angry troll (which they tricked into yeeting itself out of the palace...

What it says on the tin. Using whatever criteria you care most about — user-friendliness, aesthetic preference, whatever — how do you prefer your character sheets? The topic presumes the use of a physical character sheet — as in a sheet of paper — that you write on with, like, a pencil. I'm not...

Well I agree with the sentiment at any rate, if not necessarily with any particulars that rely on a dichotomy between RP and mechanics and dice rolls.

That's because the "role-play is superior to roll-play, which makes me superior for being a real role-player" mind-virus remains alive and well and endemic in the gaming population at large. I don't believe for a minute that D&D (regardless of edition) is anywhere near 90% combat for most...

If I'm playing straight D&D, the ability score tables I use are (closest to, but a little more complex than) the ones from Swords & Wizardry: 3–8, −1 9–12, ±0 13–18, +1 If you're rolling 3d6 down the line, each stat has about a 25% chance of a −1 penalty, a 50% chance of no modifier, and a 25%...

Or it's D&D's best design feature. "RPGs should have one right way to play them" is ideological pablum. That is… highly illogical. In fact, it borders on insane troll logic.

At least for my part: no, no, no and no, no (in fact I don't give it to fighters), no, already there, nah, several, and I split the bard into two classes because it covers too many concepts as-is.

It's hard to argue with this thesis. For most of the history of the OSR, there were two co-dominant game systems: Labryinth Lord, and Swords & Wizardry. These were the systems seeing all the new modules and supplements and settings coming out for them. These were the systems seeing their labels...