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BECMI is not my flavor of Old School, but it's a bummer that people keep telling you to play a different game. It's totally fine. :( Really, the only things I would do would be to allow some latitude in ability score generation so that a player doesn't get saddled with something he absolutely...

I'm glad that it's working for you! I do think it's important to give the spirits access to magics to which the PCs do not have access. In OD&D (or "Ruins & Ronin"), where casts can only go as high as 6th level spells anyway, these could be the higher level spells from the supplements and/or...

This specific question is actually unrelated to whether I or anyone else would defend someone's freedom of speech (either to the death or whatever other extent). I actually do have strident ideas about the extent and nature of freedom of speech, but we can't go into them here. As to the proper...

Well, not all sacred places are currently inhabited by gods... the god of a place may have been killed by another spirit or by adventurers, or perhaps a new place has opened up and that's how the demons are coming in. Also, demons in Telluria are not necessarily evil. They're just dreaded...

That's a sweet little game. I was just thinking up some appropriate house rules for it.

Sounds awesome. What does it add over the basic stuff? Like I've got an actual WBCE plus the supplements, a copy of S&W White Box from when they were selling on Lulu, etc. I'm willing to be sold on it.

Interestingly, as of this posting, there are 10 responses in the 3 middle options (LGS politics has no effect, it encourages, it discourages); the responses there are 6-1-3.

Supposing that we're using a battle mat, I would say that they can run off the map and onto one that PCs can't get to (if they run off the same map edge they're back in the mortal realm). But the sacred area is like a nexus that exists in both the mortal realm and spirit realm at once, so the...

Guys, first of all thanks to all of you for keeping it civil and within the rules. It goes to show what a good community this is. Yes to those two statements. Being familiar with small business retail, I know that a retailer's charitable/advocacy contributions generally come out of the...

Maybe it depends on what you're used to? When I was running Empire of the Petal Throne (OD&D), a combat with 6 or more players and a dozen monsters took 20 minutes or less. A combat against a solitary monster or villain took less than that. On a good day it seems like a 5 player combat in 4E...

For my Telluria project, I'm saying that the Spirit World intersects the mortal world at the sacred places where gods make their lairs. Spirits (gods, demons and undead) can walk 'sideways' from these places deeper into the Spirit World (I'm writing this for 4EE, so I'm using Eladrin as a race)...

I think you draw a good distinction between the professional and personal. It's not something that has to be absolute, and perhaps there's something that a shopkeeper feels so passionate about that he has to make it known to his patrons, but the reality is that, no matter what the issue is, if...

Now there's a poll I'd love to write up. It would be a little tough, though, because you'd have to make some hard decisions about categories... I wonder what the maximum number of poll options is? Things like separating national socialists out from fascists and semi-fascists, and distinguishing...

This is not a thread about specific political content; in fact, for the sake of the rules, the moderators, and our collegiality, please don't discuss it! Rather, it is generically about the issue of whether politicized affiliations affect your purchasing at gaming specialty retailers i.e. your...

OK, gents! No politics please... this has been a good thread so far. And you guys probably don't want to hear about my politics, since I'm a smidge to the right of Francisco Franco. ;) I guess for what I'm envisioning, there wouldn't be any competition with monotheistic religions because there...

You're correct... the presumption of the Cleric class always seems to be that you can be an itinerant. It's an adventuring class, and going on adventures means leaving home. So the Cleric adventurer must be someone who knows certain rituals and/or has a special relationship with the spirits. My...

I like the Essentials books so far, and have seen nothing to make me think that I won't like this one. I think they made a good choice by making a Necromancer a Mage build. It attaches the subclass to a class that will be supported, and it prevents class bloat. But I'm one of those who doesn't...

I wasn't initially talking about mythology. I was talking about the definition in the English language and particularly the parlance of pathology (i.e. "teratism"). I thought it best to start off by invoking what the word refers to in our own culture. And the minotaur is malformed. Men and...

OK. We're not disagreeing at all; you just had an overly literal reading of my post. I started by trying to define the word "monster" to show how wrongly it is typically used in the context of D&D. A "monster" is not a race with a breeding population, regardless of whether it is fertile. Each is...