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Thanks a ton. This is awesome stuff!

Randomized generation of a map is not improvisation. It is generation. It is repeating the pattern that is the game so players can game it. You should remember this terminology as you were around early on. All those DMs saying, "I'm not making it up!" DMs are never to make choices after the code...

Actually, Metagaming as defined in early D&D is part of player cheating. The new definition is different. As early D&D has nothing to do with expressing a personality or telling a story, that definition doesn't apply. In D&D, a DM is parceling out information rewards to players as they play the...

Agreed. Best to stay on topic.

It is a game. Players are here to game a game, aka manipulate a pattern to achieve a goal. Whether a game designed by a game designer or found in the world. This is what Game means. Trying to disprove your negative means demonstrating its absence. I have nothing to quote as your claims are...

You're in the wrong forum. This is "Older D&D Editions, D&D Variants, and OSR Gaming" It's a forum about playing and running actual games. Not group storytelling.

quote? This is a game forum. You might have better luck at a forum for storytelling.

Is it possible for you to post the other social classes as well?

You're just completely wrong. There is no such thing as a story. And D&D doesn't say any such thing.

What's in the book are not the rules of D&D, they are suggestions for a secret code the DM is expressing behind a screen. This is default D&D. It's why the game is designed as it is. And it is widely known the most common thing a DM does over and over again and must do well is math. Games are...

Then we'll not get into it. You and I both know all the rules in D&D were designed to be a game not a story. And that means no improvising at all by a DM. Everything players attempt are run through the game and relayed back to them. Anything confusing the players try is questioned until they...

I feel it's important to understand what "weather" is referring to on the game map. In general I think folks mean: air temperature, air currents, water vapor clouds, precipitation, and (maybe) pollen, and tides. There's bound to be more, but that helps us understand what weather is and what...

A DM under no circumstance is allowed to improvise. They are not playing the game, they are running it. It is the players who choose where to go and what to do by telling the DM how to move their pieces around the hidden game board. And just as in any game anywhere a player cannot "ruin the...

If you are plotting a game for the players to follow certain courses of action, you are removing their ability to play the situation as a game. Don't ever write a plot for the players. Treat the game as players playing a maze and the "rules" as rules for the referee in generating that maze.

Early D&D was a Grand Strategy-style wargame, except designed as a cooperative game. Like all the computer RPG copies you try and "beat" the game, or really, get as much XP and treasure as you can generally. This is done by gaming the game world. D&D was a game designed like any other game, but...

What Non-Hexagon symbols exist for overland maps in wargames and for early D&D? For example, dot = town or village circle = city square = fortress etc. Checking AD&D Land Adventures I find these different types of overland terrain: Plain Scrub Forest Desert Hills Mountains Marsh I can color...

Actual D&D is at the heart and soul of what it means to play and design a game. Players decipher a pattern to achieve objectives within it. Game designers craft or copy from reality a pattern for others to play. Until DMs wake up and realize they aren't refereeing a game without a patterned...

Diaglo's remembering the Illusionist from #4. Rangers are in TSR #2. Rangers are a Fighting-Man subclass (so they roleplay the combat system). They are Lawful and lose their subclass abilities, if their alignment shifts. They learn Clerical and Magical spellcasting alternating from 8th level...

Caller is very much an older practice than D&D. It goes back to wargaming. Mapper isn't something in wargaming, but then wargaming didn't hide the game board/table behind a screen for the referee to reveal based upon different actions in the game by the players. Tracking that information is...

Money. And nearby access to a variety of equipment, crafters, services, and (especially) reliable henchmen to go with them.