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I think there are plenty of gamers who saw powerful game arcs with qualities of those stories that DnD (sometimes*) embodies. I think there are also plenty of gamers who saw lawful stupid paladins or incredibly vicious playgroup arguments over whether an specific fictional act was good, evil...

Actually, it confuses me. If you started playing in 76, you would have had to have started with oD&D, as AD&D wasn't out yet. If you were born in 76, then AD&D all the way and buying 2nd edition books meaning a lot of mown lawns makes a lot of sense, but having spurned AD&D for DragonQuest back...

I think the largest issue is splitting the focus/how to keep others engaged while the focus hovers on one character to the exclusion of others. It's the Shadowrun/Cyberpunk 'hacker problem' writ large. While individual people have found solutions that work for them, overall I think it is one of...

I suspect it is already too late to have a meaningful effect. I would advocate a clarification or follow-up on your original tweet, as there it would have impact outside this tempest in a teapot.

'salright. I thought I was being 'Ackchyually'-ed by someone deliberately misrepresenting what I'd said to get the opportunity to 'correct' me. Glad to know it was simply a misread. So yes to the unified general mechanics, no race/class/level restrictions, uniform xp requirements, skills...

Only if 1) the walking away from others does not have an opportunity cost/incur some other vulnerability, and 2) if enemies actually do space themselves out. Regardless, please note what I said:

And here I was thinking you were suggesting a solar flare or asteroid impact.

Interesting. My experience was that most groups I knew of BitD didn't consider them optional. Someone had to play the thief (the trapfinder and lock-opener), like someone had to play the cleric (the HP battery). The cleric got some cool spells (in the levels which didn't also include cures) and...

This is an interesting (set of) point(s). Fireball is low tier if you don't use the enemies it is best at (in part because it tends to take them out), if they use anti-fireball tactics, and if you have a character that can address that type of opponent with a class feature. I mean, it's still...

Transmuter to Fighter/Thief: "I don't think you're going to get lucky tonight, this is a pray bar."

I mean, sure. The 'completely different games' bit is anti-Arneson-lawsuit boilerplate, so you can add stuff on to B/BX/BE-parts-of-BECMI or pare stuff down from AD&D and end up within spitting distance of each other. The differences you end up with will be trivialities like whether the reaction...

Okay, seriously -- I literally mentioned the wizard part of that in the text block you quoted. As for specialty priests, yeah I'm not sure why I considered the DL wizards close enough to count but not the DL priests (which honestly show more similarity to their 2e implementations). I'll edit...

Okay, but I hazard it was a rather special case. You were running HP attrition too fast to keep up with through other means, yes? It was make or break for the fight because you were attritioned right to the edge of your reserve/replenishment rate? Obviously any kind of benefit will mean that you...

Let's level-set. This is not 3E Pun-Pun, or Ice Assassins and Demiplanes, or Find City nukes/commoner black holes or other things which, if allowed, end your campaign (or all normality within it). It's not even 3E Hulking Hurler/5E nuclear wizard madness that is easily defeated but still takes...

I'm not even sure NWPs fit as distinctly 2e, as nearly-identical mechanisms showed up in late 1E (OA, WSG, DSG). Great question! The whole push for backwards compatibility means there's very little under the sun that is truly and uniquely 2E AD&D, at least until the Player's Option series...

I do suspect a lot of people want B/X but with paladins and demons and maybe spell disruption or 18/## Strength or 1d8/1d12 (s-m/l) longswords -- heck that's how a lot of us who started with B-BECMI played AD&D BitD quite a bit. As for specialty priests and kits -- I'm surprised there aren't...

Certainly far exceeds mere TTRPGs. Star Wars/Trek isn't what it was when I* discovered them. Comics aren't what they used to be. And the music kids are listening to these days! And so on. Seems to be a truism about life (albeit accelerated by increased rate of technological innovation, plus that...

I always had great sympathy for the devs trying to implement LA, but at the end of the day I always thought it was a flawed mechanic. Being 1 (or 2, or 8) level behind the rest of the group differs in consequence at level 1 than it does at level 13. Likewise, the benefits of (ex.) being size L...

I think this last part is not emphasized enough when people mention that the devs called it overpowered. I don't have the actual quote from them, but the reasonable interpretation is that they thought they had overpowered fireball with regards to AoE spells in general because it was iconic. And...

In the end, just the term 'false dichotomy.' I was going to say more about combat vs. RP, but ran out of time.