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The Blood War was the embodiment of fundamental differences between evil alignments, and served as a very welcome device to contrast demons from devils, devils from demons, and build specific dungeon elements around the destructive, passionate nature of evil. As such, its flavor was awesome...

What if the players' fun relies on rules being enforced impartially by the DM?

To you? Sure. OK. :)

With a cost/requires effort/high(er) level characters.

I don't.

Took a screenshot for people wondering:

I was talking of my way of running OD&D (1974), as a matter of fact. :)

I don't remember that. Just checking through the actual module itself, I see no mention of the sort either.

Now you're just ignoring my point completely and making fun of it. Fine by me. :) You were saying earlier that you saw "a lot of people confusing that whole farmer brown thing with every possible starting character". What I am seeing, personally, is a lot of people who are taking things WAY too...

Sure. See AD&D Player's Handbook, Cleric entry, p.20, Level 1 Title: Acolyte. Ibid., Magic-User entry, p.25, Level 1 Title: Prestidigitator. These are people from the mundane world who are first stepping in the extraordinary world. As for the fighter, at Level 1 he is a Veteran, thereby...

Here I was indeed conflating living an "ordinary" existence with being a farm boy, aka level 1 in AD&D, where there's not much differenciating you from other characters in the world. You are leading an ordinary life, and choosing to answer the call to adventure. You go on to go through all sorts...

Who knows. Sure, marketing is a concern, but it shouldn't be the main issue here. It's about how Gail and the Gygax are doing. Point is: we do not know what is going on. Let's stop pretending we do for a moment. We don't. When they're ready, they'll make their move and release some of Gary's...

Or: Older Editions: Campbellian Hero. 4e: Comics Superhero.

Not when you actually don't have a roll for everything, no full-blown skill system to speak of, no stat or mechanical representation for anything and everything under the sun... as in the case of OD&D, for instance. It is part of my way of running the game to challenge the players' wits and...

Sure. Which are smarts applied to game mechanics. Which I particularly adressed by posting: It's great the you appreciate applying your smarts to the game system. I certainly didn't mean to say that playing 4e (or whatever other similar game or edition) doesn't require any wits or smarts. It...

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Hi there guys. I'm dying to try out Chainmail, the actual wargame that first inspired D&D. My issue is about miniatures. I have some D&D plastic minis and somesuch, but would like to get miniatures which are both (more) medieval in feel, and in great, cheap numbers of relatively similar...

This is remarkably similar to the way I use dreams in my campaigns. They can be used for foreshadowing, warning of consequences of some courses of (in)action, communication medium between PCs and NPCs, or PC to PC, or, and it's my favorite option by far, can be used as alternate realities for...

Since I'm running OD&D right now, and that it's pretty much a matter of determining whether there's a wandering monster that meets up with the PCs or kicks down the door if/when they are staying put in some place for too long, and since my current campaign is more akin to a sandbox game play...

If you're counting Original, Advanced D&D as criteria for determining who's a D&D fan and who isn't, and it certainly looks like you are, then I'm definitely a fan of D&D, and the strategic management of the environment and resources definitely are important to me, myself, and I concur! Now, I...