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I made my saving throw and will not be posting further in this thread. :D

Hmm. X2 might seem like it's atypical for an old school module, but it draws strongly on source material (i.e. Clark Ashton Smith's fiction) that fits right in with D&D's other early influences. I never considered it odd (probably for that reason, although I never considered the question...

You guys are going to be reinventing GNS theory in this thread before long.

Heh, yeah. I tend to think of that as the "game" vs. the "brand."

What's up with the Poacher? That sounds like a pretty specific and narrow class. What distinguishes it from the Hunter, for example?

Number me among the "Ennies don't influence my purchases at all" group.

I like "storytelling gaming," sometimes. I don't like to play D&D that way, though; I think there are better approaches and systems for heavily story-focused play.

Fair enough. My exposure to 3e adventures is admittedly limited, compared to the older stuff.

I don't know. I wouldn't say "old school" requires a less restrictive map; I just prefer the exploratory play-style that a less restrictive map with more choices offers, and I see the kind of map that I like more often with older stuff. There are numerous examples of restrictive or linear...

Restrictive map design, though. (I don't think all old school modules had good map design, but the kind of map design I prefer tended to be more common in older stuff.)

Ahh, triple screen must be nice. I only recently started using a double screen arrangement with my MacBook Pro. It's nice, but my main monitor makes my MacBook Pro's display (it's the 17") look tiny. Still, I can definitely see the allure of multiple displays; it's great to be working on the...

Mac. I write software, much of which is deployed to Linux servers, and I used to run Linux as my main workstation OS. When Mac OS X was released, and was an actual UNIX, I gave it and try and liked it a lot. Apple switching to intel CPUs really cemented the deal. I still have occasional need...

Sounds like you're planning on the RC/BECMI rules. You might check out Robert Fisher's site that focuses on Classic D&D for some useful insights on the game. Similarly, my site (in my sig) might have something to offer; it's aimed more at original D&D than the Classic variants, but the...

I'd just run the system with the feel I'm after. (That is, for OD&D feel, I'd run OD&D; for 1e feel, I'd run 1e; et cetera). I'm not saying that you can't run a given system with a different feel, I just question whether it's worth the trouble. For me, the answer to that question is...

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When I see a OD&D/1e/2e thread started by Bullgrit (or Quasqueton), I expect a sort of "mythbusters" question or observation. Perhaps that's the kind of line drawing that Umbran means: quantification of details that subsequently get argued about (or at least, the analysis of the details gets...

The problem with that is the sample; I'd bet that the majority of the people running old versions don't frequent EN World very often, if at all. (Which, of course, is more speculation without any real numbers to back it up…)

I'm not sure about that part. Certainly there's a lot of buzz around the retro-clones, but there's an awful lot of us out here that are playing the actual older editions. I have no hard numbers, one way or another—just saying…

It's definitely a subjective term. Some people use it to refer to a whole spectrum of games, for others its D&D specific, and even there you have different lines being drawn. I personally tend to think of "old school" as it applies to D&D (not other games), and I tend to think of "old school...

I had a lot of fun "back in the day." I'm having more fun, now, than I did back then. I think I'm a better DM (and a better player), with a firmer grasp on the game and a better understanding of what I like (and dislike) and how to get there. I have access to a large community that produces...