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As I just said (and you literally included in your quoting me) I will be answering the OP under the premise that the two need mechanical entities need to continue to be distinct. Likewise, I just said that your argument had meat to it. If you strip out the Orientalism from monks (or 'martial...

Not specific to you, but I do wish this memetic turn of phrase would end. Since no one is under any obligation to change the statement-maker's mind, it makes it seem like engaging in the topic is acquiescing to an unrealistically demanding individual. I wish we could move back to something like...

The Necklace of Missiles (called Necklace of Fireballs in more recent D&Ds) was always a special one. It was like the Staff of the Magi in that you could blow it up in a massive overkill strike. The difference was that there was a plausible chance that you could do so from outside the blast...

This is the fundamental problem with the Star Wars IP as a game setting, and this does address the situation. The way I would do it is set the game during the rebellion, and state that -- while Han and Luke and Vader are out there in this universe, them being the focal point of the entire...

The one and only situation where these three words, in this order, make sense with regards to LaNasa.

Snarf had the right of it. I used ogre* to get the 2h sword size L+ damage, then typoed the actual amount (now fixed).*which, as it happens is the monster included in the 2e AD&D backstab example on PHB p.40

It would genuinely enhance my opinion of the board as a whole if the people who cannot keep themselves from relitigating this once again could show the self-restraint to move it to a thread dedicated to the subject.

Longswords have cost 15 gp when the gold coins weighed 1/10 lb. and when they weighed 1/50 lb. Of all the 'gamist conventions' mentioned (and I generally agree with what people have said), the one I'm most comfortable with is that the coins/weight decision is completely gamist. 50 silver coins...

So let's look at the optimal scenario: -- level 13+ bandit kit thief who picked up those stealth skills, two-handed sword proficiency, and are attacking an ogre or similar. In that case, they have a 60% chance of getting +2 to hit over a fighter in the same scenario (but with a ThAC0 6 worse at...

An alternate universe where evil won, and some of the good guys ended up as bad guys? Does everyone happen to have goatees?

What was the question category?

I have a third issue: C. Each of the 3 civilians you end up (potentially) encountering in the wilderness/dungeon -- the hermit, the cleric (who might be interested in accompanying the party), and the woman in the prison cell (who turns out being a medusa) -- all betray the party. This...

You also have people like me, who want to fight with sword and bow, and then finish the adventure contributing vital spells like Knock, Spider Climb, See Invisibility, and Dimension Door. And those utility-type spells, barring a few like Silence, Stone Shape, and Air Walk, have been off the...

Okay, like many, not including Alpha Centauri wildly upends things, as it is far and away one the best. Certainly if we follow OP's 'products of their times' concession* **, *it certainly would have benefited from the era of downloaded patches to fix the expansion only including one of the two...

I love druids thematically. Two of my recent characters was a Stars Druid who was full on sacrifice goats under the neolithic architecture (Göbekli Tepe T-pillars this time, not Stonehenge sarsen-and-lintels); and a Wildfire Druid (with his wildfire spirit, Flambé -- a Molotov Cockatiel). I...

The statement, "There's few places on the internet more insufferable than reddit," is also true, so that might not be indicative of anything regarding the osr/osr community specifically.

I think people have mentioned the basics. People who want to play 'Gishes'* are not universally doing so for some kind of desire to be all-powerful -- and in many instances across the versions of the games the implementation(s) of the concept generally underperformed. Many people play them...

Oculos meos advolvit donec videre non potui.

The first game I played was a mad B, B/X, AD&D hybrid that the 'big kids' were playing. First game I owned was a first printing Mentzer Basic set. Throughout my initial run with TSR D&D, we hewed much closer to basic-classic than to advanced. Even today, I champ at the bit to get a game going...

I would like something along the lines of a Warshaper class -- not just turn into beasts but get bear claws with bird wings and (maybe) dragon breath on top of both. I know the 2025 playtest sorta did this with druid and there being pushback. However, if that was the deliberate theme, I think...