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To the OP: As you can see, there are many naysayers who know either a false history or hold to a malignly constructed (a la the Forge) misunderstanding of the hobby of role-playing games, especially to D&D. To understand the gamebooks in your hands look back at my post and contemplate it. AD&D...

This may be counterintuitive to everything you've heard before but think about it rationally. The most rules laden tabletop game up until its time was D&D, a game published as an RPG. (Supposedly an improv story making game where tracking points is laughed at). Well, AD&D contains more rules...

Spells are balanced per day and not built for combat, not necessarily. The game isn't about combat but when in one magic-users should use the weapons available to them. Avoid melee unless you have an advantage. Take cover, assist your allies, don't leave town without fight support, but that...

Of course there are many secrets here and many goings ons for the players to discover. Given how the wilderness is designed, I don't think the setting expansion is so much to give you a campaign world as to provide a Wilderness Adventure. Yes, there are safe locations to regroup and resupply...

GaryCon had this for a special price. I picked it up knowing I had waited for it several years. It would take a long time to do a full and considered review, but here is an overview of the product. Your answers are spoilered at the end. My Takeaway: The artistry of the maps and the quantity of...

I worry most that this will be mistakenly taken as a world building encyclopedia for shared storytelling as opposed to the backbone of a strategy game with mechanical backing for every component included. If it is the former, then I assuredly want the original setting to remain untouched. An...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/concealed-profanity-in-post-title.192102/ When we jumped the shark and pwned the founder

Over fifteen years and the site is still named after this guy! Has anyone actually bothered to deal with this problem? (FYI, I'm still outside the house)

Still my favorite storyhour. Rough writing as it was for me.

Shouldn't this be up for a title change? Deliverance Country, GA. Seeking companions for wilderness adventure. ;)

I agree with Greyhawk. So many great areas. IIRC the Wild Coast is the traditional starting area, but the same could be said about GH city, castle, and pre-publication wilderness surroundings - the first Gary DM'd adventures. I'd say B2 and B1 and the best starting locations, with T1 thrown in...

If you want to go pre-3e, you need to ditch Character Level. Something baked in 5e. Before 2000 every class was scored separately, so a Ftr5/Clr6 was not at all an 11th level character. Rather they composited advancement along two different game paths and were perhaps balanced with single...

I assume they are modules for a strategy game where the players succeed or fail at their objectives based upon their actions. And they copy stuff from the 70s and 80s. (not necessary)

Good for Mearls. The hidden design game strikes again.

PS: Almost everything in D&D is based on a human standard. And most of the crafted items in the world come from humans too. So your standards are likely to be conforming to what a standard human can use without difficulty. The human scale. This is true for weapons and armor. It is true for bags...

D&D historically uses a measure by Coin (mass) for both weight and carrying capacity. So twyoung1960 is technically correct. (though the ratio used to be 10:1) Q. How many coins can any container carry? A. The players choose. The DM can have some standards if they want, but really it is up...

I don't think there is spectrum between a "sandbox" and a "railroad". One is a game and the other is a story. A sandbox is played and succeeded or failed at due to the players' actions and abilities. The latter is where the "player" reads or listens to a story. What I think confuses...

I think a big enough "sandbox" (aka campaign board) is going to have ever evolving interesting situations arise as play progresses. I feel it's up to the players to find these rather than me tell them. I want them to seek their desires not look for where to they are to follow. A great want...

Gold as XP means you can trade your treasure for XP. The local merchant is the best place to get XP in such a game, after sneaking past monsters to collect all the treasure you can. I prefer XP for roleplaying, which simply means each role (class) gains XP for the unique way each class is...

I think it's more applicable to say that improvisation games aren't actually games as they don't including the gaming act within them. Gaming requires the ability to succeed at gaming the game. In other words, there must be an objective inherent within the game design the players can accomplish...