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To me the words "default setting" mean a presumed campaign world to which the game caters. So with that in mind, no, D&D should not have that for what seem to me to be obvious reasons. Each group makes the game their own and one size does not fit all. Beyond that pedantry, D&D should definitely...

What I recall the most from my early days of gaming (started in 82) was that I saw games as a way to emulate or reproduce the types of fiction I enjoyed. So I was (and I suppose still am) trying to capture the feel of the books, movies and TV shows that interested me. Yeah, we had dungeons but...

Last time I ran B2, the characters never even went to the caves. I sent them into some flooded crypts below the chapel in the Keep looking for a magic fungus that grows on bones and can be made into curing potions. Those crypts ended up becoming the upper level of a multi-level dungeon below the...

I give them bonus spells like clerics, which helps. I am not ashamed of my heresy. I also design the adventure so that wizards (and all classes, really) have things to contribute beyond combat. Your wizard will be the only guy who can decipher the runes on that weird magic trap or possess the...

I started with BX, went on to play AD&D, AD&D2e, then 3e, 3.5e, PF, then went back to BX and AD&D2e. I play BX fairly BTB, with a few houserules, and I play AD&D2e with a glorious and absurd amount of hacks, houserules, and content stolen from all the other editions. I've played a little 4e and...

Depends on the size of the group. If I'm running for 4 or 5 players, it's fine to just do individual initiative and let people move, act, cast spells, fire missiles, engage in melee or whatever on their initiative count. For large groups (like 7 to 9 players), I use side-based initiative with...

I am not a 4e fan but I will not be silenced! :D I love bloodied as a concept and use it in all my games. Such a great way to keep the flow of combat interesting. I love how mobile combat is in 4e and always bear that in mind when I am running games. As a Dark Sun fan, I love what 4e did with...

We use your 2d6 version of the thief skills in our BX games. It's a great fix :)

I do this in my homebrew 2e game. All characters are proficient with every weapon on their class list and warriors are therefore proficient with all weapons. Fighters can spend WPs on specialisation and mastery, and all classes can spend WPs on expertise (basically a +1 to hit), shield and...

Aulicus is fantastic - two great set-piece encounters if you're lucky (as DM, at any rate). A player new to D&D in my game lost his first character ever to Aulicus, Very memorable beast.

Many of the random tables from Mork Borg would fit this perfectly - loot found on corpses, city events, tavern details, travel rules etc, without needing to dig into the imminent apocalypse element of that game. So cool.

Ordered this today based on this interview! The pdf of the UCE and the zine look great - really capture that S&S feel. Can't wait to dig in and play. Great work :)

In my game, alignment is applied after the fact - it's a description of how you behave. So dragons can change their behaviour and thereby change colour. A gold dragon that turned to evil would change its appearance accordingly, becoming a chromatic dragon of some type. Dragons with mixed hues...

I bought it as a standalone and love it. We are several Miseries deep into our Mork Borg game (played intermittently when our regular game is off-schedule) and I find it adds some useful new elements to the middle phases of the game. We have kingdoms on fire, horrors arising from the underworld...

I mean, yes? My point is that people lived in different places and had different gaming experiences as a result. There was no one "this is how it was back in the day". Clearly things are different now, but I wasn't comparing then with now :)