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Hi there. I am the owner of the Mongoose RuneQuest I rules books, and would like to get some feedback from the people who have own(ed) both MRQI and MRQII here: what are the differences between Mongoose RuneQuest and Mongoose RuneQuest II? I am an old fan of the game system (going all the way...

It's squarely apart of Ptolus (in the countryside, near the town of Bridenford, which is fairly vanilla/generic in tone), but the website does include some advice from Monte for those DMs who want to use the dungeon within Ptolus.

I let the characters die. It is part of the game. If there is no possibility for failure, success means nothing.

Please don't (generalize, I mean). That's how stereotypes come into being and stereotypes are generally nocive, detrimental to these kinds of gaming discussions (or any discussion, really, for that matter) comparing play styles and preferences.

It indeed doesn't. That's why it's particularly hard to just cast the same "OSR" light on people liking different vintage games for different reasons, talking about them in different ways, on different venues, and producing widely different products for them. A person who is mostly into First...

I honestly don't think his take here really is a "bait and switch" in the traditional sense of the term. Didn't he send an email to his people before the game basically laying things out for them? If so, then he clearly stated his intentions, and if the players really did mind that much, they...

Red Hand of Doom's pretty good. Another vote, here. :)

I don't know if anyone pointed this out, yet, but the title may be confusing to some grognards. The acronym OD&D usually refers to the original game of 1974. This is not the same game as the Mentzer boxed sets (aka BECMI D&D, with the Basic, Expert, Companion, Master and Immortal rules sets)...

*nod* Doesn't do much for me, I'm afraid. Thanks for the clips, though. :)

I think it's worth pointing out that many old-schoolers out there actually do not know who "Gabe" is, maybe know of "Penny Arcade" as a brand name or "some web comic somewhere online", and actually don't give much of a crap about it. -Just giving you some perspective as to why they might...

You could, of course, ask the question to Monte at Okay Your Turn.

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What am I playing that is not D&D? Lots of games. Too many to mention. My latest three non-D&D RPG purchases: Mongoose's Traveller, Geist: The Sin-Eaters, and Aces & Eights. My favorite games besides D&D, clones and variations, are Call of Cthulhu, Vampire the Masquerade, The (New) World of...

I've seen this many times. Many people seem to use "OD&D" to mean "AD&D First Edition", while for others it strictly means "OD&D (1974)" (which is what it's supposed to mean, especially in relation to Swords & Wizardry, here). True, using OD&D with all its Supplements, you are pretty much...

If you like megadungeons (like say Rappan Athuk, Castle Whiterock, Temple of Elemental Evil etc.), you will love this. If you like Monte's work, including and not limited to Ptolus, you'll like it even more. It shouldn't be too hard to convert to 4e. I know that, at the website's start, there...

I actually agree with people who say "tone it down" here. I'm an old-schooler, OD&Der and AD&Der through and through. When I heard about Penny Arcade mentioning S&W, I was all like "why should I give a damn about it?" I wasn't realizing the kind of readership PA gets nowadays. It may not be...

It's a pretty cool idea, actually (the travel from 4e to OD&D Fantasy Vietnam, I mean). I honestly didn't know Penny Arcade was that popular, so I was all "meh" and stuff, but it seems to have millions of daily readers so... cool. :)

If I may bounce on my own post, here, I will also point out that advice to DMs and players not only explaining why this or that mechanical aspect of the game's design matters, but also how it matters, in which particular game play assumption and particular situation as it relates to other...

The problem comes from a misnomer. Game balance is actually something different than Rules balance, where the former is the act of balancing the game as it is being played at an actual game table, versus the latter which balances the mechanical elements used in this game and written on paper...

I think that in many ways, more written choices make for less actual choice in what some players and GMs can do at their game table, depending mostly on mind set and play style. If you give some gamers a very loose game system, like say, Swords & Wizardry, to work with, they will start coming...