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I think this is going to be a central area of contention/diverging views. Are 'skills*' inherently thief-like? They certainly were the first class to get anything of that sort. oD&D rangers probably were the second example of the idea -- does that make them thief-like, or good evidence that the...

I always enjoyed the 'both have inky quills' answer, myself. That's right. Now go clean your room. Well, we do share the year with D&D's birth, now don't we?

Going by the oD&D version, the lower surprise threshold was "Because of their ability to track Rangers also are difficult to surprise." I think this is all going to go down to subjective perspective. Especially which version seemed more 'Aragorn-ish.' When I played 1E, it did seem odd for them...

I think there's a pragmatic approach as well. Regardless of either of these positions on when people should qualify their statements, people on this forum do/are express(ing) personal positions without specifically calling it out each time. That's an apparent part of the board culture (honestly...

I believe the "must" refers to the the 'saying correctly' statement, not demands behavior from others. We "MUST" do something TO pronounce 'coup de grâce' correctly. Don't forget Montevideo, which rhymes with, er, "aunt uh video" (using the American pronunciation of 'video').

If you start with sorcerer, which I think was the part that wasn't clear.

I kinda feel they got a bum rap. The Hanna-Barbera cartoon was aimed towards a younger subset of gradeschoolers, and I think that was a strategic mistake, however the toys themselves I don't think were specifically worse. Yes, some of them seemed a little cheaper, sillier, or ridiculous. Their...

AD&D initiative works fine, if needlessly fiddly*. It's mostly 1d6 to go first, with a bunch of exceptions. If it had been explained completely, clearly, and concisely in a single section of text with some useful examples, it would... still have been ignored for houserules or BX/BECMI ports by...

Again, has anyone said it hasn't been part of the rules at one time or another? If it hasn't been clear, Oofta seems to believe you are vigorously disputing statements he does not think he made. Same as other people have not thought they were framing their positions and preferences as objective...

Transformers first came out right when I was in that awkward phase where I wasn't quite done with action figure-like toys*, but wasn't really buying any and certainly not starting new toy lines. So they were more the toys of friends' younger siblings or eventually the kids I would babysit. That...

That, or Bargle, the franchised identity. Local dungeons can put on their own evil plots, complete with their own Bargle. For a nominal fee, you too can be BozoBargle, and delightterrify young childrenyoung children in your area.

Political marriages (or alliances of any type, really) are large groups of individual parties and interest agreeing to solidify some form of status quo. There are any number of things-people-really-would-have-wanted-instead that are still out there in the form of resentments, backup plans, or...

I just checked all 3 basic sets, there isn't a scaffolding in any of the intro adventures or play samples. Is this something from the 5e "Red Box" starter set? My experience would be with the Mentzer basic box that introduced Bargle. The first D&D I played was a mashup of B, BX, AD&D, and...

I said it elsewhere -- being yo-yoed into and out of a damaging experience should not do more* than staying in it for the six whole seconds of the round. My group has ruled on all ongoing AoEs: Characters are damaged the first time their position and the spell affect area overlap within a...

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I would disagree a bit, here. In OSE (and OSR/TSR-era D&D in general, at least when in dungeon-mode), there are fewer slogs and higher stakes per fight, but there are still 'all over but the shouting (and figuring out the expended resources)' situations. Usually in terms of that last corridor of...

My group ran into this early on and just dealt with it. We decided the RAI logic was fairly clear, and the devs just over-complicated it trying to hunt down loopholes. I think we landed on lasting-AoE damage was supposed to trigger damage to you no more than once per round (counting from end of...

It's still mostly money and things. Honestly, that was probably less unusual back in the day. IIRC Metamorphosis Alpha and some other early games also didn't really advance your character abilities but instead let you find plenty of cool items and upgrades. And, to be fair, early D&D also had a...

Oh yes, I'm not disputing that. I'm theorizing what would have happened if the Supplement 1 had included the spells known mechanic it implemented for magic users for clerics as well. Plenty of digital ink has been spilled about how clerics can cast from the entire cleric spell library; if they...

Joking aside, I remember bitd* buying into the notion that 'AD&D' should stand for the original game and not AD&D 2nd edition as well*. Nowadays that comes off to me like someone who insists on calling penny-farthing/high-wheeler old-timey bicycles 'ordinaries,' no matter how much conversational...