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Natural byproduct of DMing and not playing for so long, of course. :devilish:

Dov, 12th Level Human Druid (2nd Edition). Edit: ooops - forgot about my teenage years playing BECMI - had a 21st level fighter once. Been so long...

I ran a campaign for 18 years using the Player's Options series... though I did make the mistake early on of allowing almost EVERYTHING... o_O(spoiler alert: It's a bad idea) That said, the options books do have a lot of interesting features DMs can carefully introduce. I personally love the...

Take the 'mechanical' realities of the monsters and dress them up with flavour. So you're giving them information without revealing a statblock or abilities. 'There was once a tale of a woman by the sea... the fishermen always said to stay away, and plug your ears because she sang a song so...

Curse you! You beat me to it. 🤣

Yeah, gotta start saving my pennies. I have the other 5 in the line and am quite pleased with them. I may have to put together an actual 5e campaign to make use of them at some point, as opposed to just bookshelf curiosities. :oops:

I have run U1 several times for different groups. U2 only twice, and never completed the trilogy as DM. (Though as player, the DM who first put me through it ran all three and we made it to the final Enemy and died) I think it's a great series but for me the key is the setting. Create Saltmarsh...

Add my voice to the 'almost always DM' pile, as opposed to 'sometimes.' I have read the 1st ed, 2nd ed and 5th ed DMG's from cover to cover, but I only generally review the 1st ed DMG with regularity.

Started with the classic Red Box at age 13 in 1986... am leveling up to age 48 in two months... What a journey indeed.

I'm a sucker for the classics. :cool: Male Human Barbarian w/ Battle Axe Female Human Paladin with Chainmail, Shield, and sword Elf Fighter with bow Human Wizard Esbee needs food, badly.

This sounds to me like a great set-up for players to work through, you don't as DM need to have concrete answers already mapped out - this is the players' scenario to puzzle out and you need to adapt accordingly. As DM simply adjudicate the consequences of what your players choose to do without...

Yeah, as DM I do keep the running tally, I simply don't award it until the adventure scenario is done. I use all the btb leveling rules - training at each level, performance ratings, XP freeze until you train etc... and I have found that waiting on the awarding of XP is preferable rather than...

Well, that approach is by the book, so I imagine it was used by people somewhere, though back in the day even my own groups did it at the end of each session. I came to appreciate this way as being superior and easier for various reasons. I am not a fan of interjecting to players how they divvy...

I still run 1e, and my method is to award XP when a scenario is done and the characters are safely back at a port of haven where they can tabulate rewards and treasure, regardless of how many sessions it takes. That gives players the chance to discuss loot division, which will affect how much...

Probably a tad too much goes to D&D stuff... I peruse eBay and Kijiji for stuff from time to time... which has lead me to having multiple copies of older (collectible) books that I don't need more than one of and don't want to overuse lest they degrade. These days, though, I do find myself...

Ooooh! Now you're talking my language! Must... resist... temptation to overdo... it... aaargh... Despite 1st Ed being my system of choice, I freely admit that it does require some individual tinkering. That's a feature not a bug! :D No alignment languages available automatically, but can be...

First and foremost resume my regular 1st ed campaign... which has been on hiatus since March due to the pandemic. That's a twice monthly (on average) game. Make a point of writing up some stuff for publication. Maybe start a podcast/webseries talking old school... been meaning to do this for a...

Trust me, this kid was textbook entitled. Granted he was at most 19 or 20 so hopefully a little life-experience knocks that out of him. I agree with you that being selective isn't being 'entitled.' But demanding that others adjust to suit his own whims certainly is.

Earlier this year, shortly before everything went to crud due to the pandemic, I was in a conversation with a young and new player who was insistent that the DM's 'job' was to cater to the players in his group and give them what they wanted. That they weren't allowed to 'exclude' expansions if...

Death is a very real threat in my games (1st ed), but it's not exactly a meatgrinder. My current 1st ed game is more than 7 years old now, and has seen many deaths and two near TPKs - first one had a single survivor, and second one had two survivors but they weren't present when the rest of the...