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I found in my years that story based rewards are worse. You reward XP for what someone thinks is a cool story, then the game is gonna start to be about whatever most entertains the person giving out the XP. I vastly prefer the old system where XP comes primarily from treasure, with...

I think they're saying there's a difference between including those things and glorifying those things. I think the term glorification is tricky. All the scary things you want to keep in your campaign happen in my campaign too, but I don't orchestrate adventures that encourage the player...

I didn't suggest we shouldn't address colonialism, just that we shouldn't glorify it. My take on adventure design is to just present the situation, and the opinions of the NPCs involved at face value. There may be characters in the setting engaged in colonialism, genocide, slavery, murder...

I think the only solution to the glorification of colonialism in RPGs is to not glorify colonialism AT ALL. Just dehumanizing (or humanizing) the participants doesn't really change anything for the better.

I have to agree with Greg. Keep on the Borderlands takes place in a fantasy world where the Humans were there first, and the Non-humans have migrated in to kick them off this land. In this one specific adventure, the PCs are tasked with resisting the colonizing efforts of the non-humans. I...

How/why would you draw the players' maps during prep? You describe what the players see, and they map it, or you draw it for them on the battle mat as usual.

If the DM didn't want you to have that information, he should have concealed it somehow.

I think this the DM's fault, not the player's.

Another experience, not really booted, though... At an LGS, there was some hot shot DM that finally agreed to run 4th ed D&D Encounters organized play at the store, and the staff was really excited to have him involved. The way D&D Encounters generally went at the time was you'd sit at a big...

We were talking about game mechanics and our characters on discord after the session 0, with a tangent about how feudalism worked and how that differed from the domain management rules in the Rules Cyclopedia. While I was AFK, I was banned from the discord and removed from the roll20 group. DM...

The Blue Box wasn't compatible with BX/BECMI. Its rules differed in a lot of ways, and AD&D would have been a natural next-step from there. BECMI wouldn't even exist for another year, or three, depending on whether you want to distinguish between Moldvay's B and Mentzer's B.

The final version of that rulebook, branded "The Classic Dungeons and Dragons Game" was available on Drivethru or RPGNow a very long time ago. I had a legal, watermarked pdf file of it until recently, but i'm not sure which hard drive I archived it on. It was more or less the same text as the...

The rule is missing from the Rules Cyclopedia. The Black Box starter set, which was supposed to be the introductory set to the RC, gives 1d4 hp per day of bed rest on page 28.

"in a new format" We haven't really gotten an Atlas since the days of TSR's "Trail maps" series. Maybe they're gonna present a setting with a focus on geography rather than game mechanics.

I didn't see any NDA, or any questions that looked like anything crazy for the future. Maybe it's because I told them BECMI was the only edition i've played in the last 12 months?

I think their livestreamed games use Cortex Prime, but the point of the kickstarter is to develop an original system.

A character being really really good at thief stuff is archetypal, but the things the thief does are often attempted, successfully, by characters of various archetypes.

The caster progressions isn't slowed, though I think some powerful spells were moved up to higher spell levels than they had in BX. One could easily accelerate thief skills to +5% per level, and stop advancement at level 14 if they wanted to, and keep the rest of the RC as it is.

I believe Dark Dungeons has its own take on Immortal level play that's neither I nor WotI. The print on demand Rules Cyclopedia are good quality, and not a bad price.

Dark Dungeons calls itself a retroclone, but to be honest i think they changed too much to really hold that descriptor. I've only read through Dark Dungeons X, which includes content from Darker Dungeons, so I guess it's possible the original Dark Dungeons is more faithful.