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My first purchase (not counting my original Christmas gift of the Holmes set) was a used copy of the Moldvay Basic D&D set at the Red Barn in California, around in '83 as I recall. I'd previously seen the set - a friend had a copy, but I wanted my own. I think I paid $6 for it.

There's a local game convention I go to yearly that is held in a rather small area (50' X 50' at best). The noise factor would give me headaches, so I bought a can of Construction Work style disposable earplugs, and they worked nicely. Could still hear the game I was at, but the general volume...

I think it was more a case it's already locked in that it is going to be in the book, tested or not. Though I think it would have been wise to throw it out beforehand to see if anybody latches onto issues with it, and gauge if how they plan to instigate it matches how it will actually get used...

Even more so, there's likely to be regional dialects just as with spoken or written languages. Also, I'd like to mention that there's a good chance some trade professions, cults/religions, courtiers or even assassin/thieves guilds that are likely to have some form of a (simple) sign language...

That's pretty close to the route I went, though I made it 4 or more, and the extra bit (push, trip, etc.) uses up a bonus action (reduces the chance of spamming and slowing the combat down, for one thing). Battlemasters can do that, or just spend a die if they feel they need for it.

I think adding a die on top of the chance for the success of the maneuver is a slippery slope. Akin to granting specialist Wizards a die bonus to the difficulty of saving throws/attacks for spells in their particular specialty (i.e., giving Illusionists a +dX bonus when casting illusions). I'd...

Thracia is out? I've been waiting to grab that, as I got to play a small portion of it using original D&D rules at a Con a few years back.

Forget the ducks, I fear the Canadian Goose PCs/NPCs.

My primary homebrew sits within a bowl of sorts, and the various planes can be reached from physically fixed points on the Prime Material (based on old tales of like real-world Olympus being where the Greek gods could be found, certain volcanic fields in Norway led directly to Niflheim and...

I feel like Asmodee sent the RPGs to Edge to die, I get the sense they only care about the board games and don't have any real interest in RPGs. At best the RPG titles they got from FFG seem to be just held onto and not advanced. Hopefully Mearls gets tapped to bring them back from the brink...

I hate that Asmodee gutted FFG, they made some amazing stuff (notably X-Wing). I hope Mearls is going to them to resurrect their RPG line.

I used to be able to quickly pick up and run groups, with plenty of players eager to be in my game, and I was happy to have them on board. It's been a while now since I started a new group and I'm feeling that itch to try it again. My first group was just my best friends when I discovered D&D...

I'm just there to tell them what happens as a result of their decisions. The pace is in the player's hands. Which usually results in one of the players screeching, "can we at least get down the hall ten feet tonight?"

My God, the Heartbow! My brother and I used to do archery at home after school and that weapon was our dream D&D artifact.

As a player, I'd be interested in the light version, primarily how it might affect my character or the expedition that we're on. As a DM, I'm fascinated by this sort of thing and have been designing entire worlds with different assumptions on how things came to be and what machinations are...

From the old Peter Atkinson letter about the shape of TSR when Wizards bought it, there was a warehouse of 1st edition books "palleted as if to go" still around that apparently were pulped. That was 1998 or '99, so they had been laying about for at least 10 years. I can't say for certainty...

I myself never much like Krull, but all my D&D buddies used to rave about it. I figured in the overall gaming community it was on a pedestal like Holy Grail and Princess Bride. Also, Legend.

#2 would disqualify Pathfinder and Call of Cthulhu from being successful in my neck of the woods, and you'd think people are still only playing 3E D&D.

How Krull doesn't have its own RPG blows my mind. Also, no Neverending Story RPG? For my own homebrew, "Hawk the Slayer" got pulled in, though I think that's '70s...