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Smart/wise bad guys plan ahead. They will have an escape route in mind before the battle even begins. Of course, clever and/or lucky players may thwart that escape route, and if they do, good for them.

A fantasy game must have fantasy elements, but those elements need not be ubiquitous. The truly weird and fantastical things stand out well against a background of the mundane. IOW, if everything is fantastical, nothing is. A fanatsy world can look pretty mundane in large areas. To get that...

The link is enclosed in IMG tags, so it doesn't show up as a clickable link or an image. However, following the link I see an image of the Moldvay Basic book. It contains rukes for levels 1-3. The follow-on is the Cook Expert set (see this ) which contains rules for levels 4-14. The early B...

My campaign has been going since 1986. One of the regular players is still playing a character that appeared in the second play session. The regular game is (almost) every week. Other players (who have moved away and thus are no longer regular)are getting together for a week of gaming in...

Its from the first edition DMG. The rule is good up to 18 STR, exceptional STR was capable of pressing much greater weights.

IMO the greatest source of the idea of "divine magic" is the accounts of miracles (both in the Bible and in later stories of saints). However, there is a (weak) precedent in pulp stories for such a thing. Henry Kutner's "Elak of Atlantis" tales contain "druids" with magical powers that seem...

I have way too many RPG products to list them all; they take up many shelves. Just off the top of my head: AD&D 1E: Almost everything AD&D 2E: Many things (modules, core books, books of spells and magic items, etc) D&D 3E: Many books (especially monster books) and modules Call of Cthulhu: A lot...

IMO, game stores provide value by existing. I like going to a game store, its recreational for me. That's why I shop there. The only game stuff I buy online is unavailable in stores (e.g. OSR stuff from Lulu).

I only booted a player once. It was because a committee of other players came to me and said "Either she goes or we do". The other players wanter her gone because the character was massively (and selfishly) not pulling her weight and the player's conversation drove the other players to...

I think a high level fighter is more like Batman than like a policeman. Definitely not some normal guy, but with fewer options than, say, Superman. The Justice League had Superman and Batman in the same team. That was fiction rather than a game, of course. To balance the two, magic-types need...

"Non-intuitive" and "nonsense" are not synonyms.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

I voted for 1E - and I'm pleasantly surprised to see how many others did.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If the PCs can come back, so can the villains.

The other big "string" is that he has Xykon's phylactery. As for Tsukiko - good riddance.

While any system that uses dice does indeed have odds of success and of failure, they are still very different in play. Some systems don't give a degree of success, they just tell you pass/fail. In Champions if you hit, you hit, if you miss you miss (although margin of success may matter for...

I liked the 2E approach in principle, but found it kind of unworkable in practice. A cleric with, e.g., no access to healing sphere couldn't fill a cleric's normal role in a party. In my 1E campaign created an individual spell list for each religion. Each was strongly based off the generic...

Many good ideas have already been put forward. I'd like to add that even hostile monsters don't necessarily fight to the death. If a group of humanoids is losing a fight to the PCs, and there's no escape route, the remaining creatures may surrender. Then the PCs can talk to the prisoners...

I'd love to see support by WotC for older editions in the form of new products, but I consider it to be as likely as rolling up a characters with 6 straight 18s.

I think its just "You can't judge a book by its cover".