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This was true but you couldn't just choose it either. You got it by random luck.

I think this is also very appropriate to maintaining fairness but I'd make the roll ahead of time when coming up with the plans if that were at all possible. My approach doesn't eliminate GM's having to make a decision for NPCs but it does help them to be fair. As to your earlier comment, bad...

For me magic and psionics don't flavor together well. And yes I had a problem player and I handled it. I just ended up making psionics functionally equivalent to magic. So if you want mind magic then just have a mind magic school of magic. I think psionics is great but I wouldn't have magic...

I don't mean to be mean but honestly I just said that and you respond as if I am disagreeing. It's like you want to argue for no good reason. And I suspect that it's somewhere in between but we neither one have an measuring instrument that would give us the answer to that question.

Well I am experience but I also do not think minor disputes are worth changing. I don't want to reward rules lawyer behavior. If you like that then by all means encourage it. I do not. If it is egregious as I said then I would revisit it. So yes, my making an egregiously bad ruling is...

Psionics has wrecked many a campaign over the years. I had a 1e player using a Dragon Magazine psionicist who tried hard to wreck my games. (Energy Control anyone). Generally it's a tack on and the flavor doesn't fit. I'd be fine with it done well in a space or moderns style game. GURPS...

I think the best core rule book is the 1e DMG. The best module is probably either B2 or D1-2. The best rules supplement: The Book of the Righteous (3e as I don't own the 5e but it may be just as good). Setting: World of Greyhawk (original).

I think both ways can be fun so my vote was optimistic. I've actually had some players just ask if I could make all the rolls and they could just role play. Others want to roll everything they can because they actually love rolling dice. I think a game can run well with only players or only...

I think you missed my point. If D&D is our main thing, then we will spend a lot. We have a lot more to spend on our hobbies. D&D though may not be our main thing or even a thing anymore for a lot of old timers. Those still really into the game and at the cons will normally be ideal...

Well in my games my changing the ruling is about as frequent as Haley's comet coming by so it's not worth it. I suppose if your DMs are constantly reversing themselves your milage might vary.

This whole debate is why I try to come up with close order action drills for all the enemies ahead of time. I make the instructions appropriate to the intelligence and abilities of the monsters. This helps me to guard against any bias. If the players come up with a really innovative way to...

The OP.

I think what he wrote in the books was good advice most of the time. I think even he would streamline his game if he were around and rewrote it today. His advice concerning how to handle players though has served me very well over the years. And I think Monty Haulism was a blight upon the...

Yes, I would agree that old timers have tried more games. We are a market for D&D though and if D&D is our primary game then we will spend a lot on it. This is the reality. While we dominate if in the race few of us are in the race. We are a small cohort even if we bat way out of proportion...

I love novel landmasses and this may shock you but I was already considering if I should copy some of that coastal area up north and integrate it somewhere in my world's landmass.

During the game session, I do. We can revisit after the session and if I feel my ruling was egregiously bad then something can be changed. Arguments at the table are time wasters and fun ruiners.

And that is probably why it is gone.

It is hard to prove either way. I think a lot of 50 year olds have drifted away from the game but those still playing spend more than their 25 year old self ON AVERAGE. I met guy like you. I still meet them. I'm not saying there are not exceptions. I think it's an exception though and not...

Actually I played 3e and 4e. I wished I'd skipped 4e and would never play it again. I could play 3e though nowadays sure I'd prefer more OSR in it. Edit: So I can play a lot of games. 3e is playable because at least certain major tropes are maintained. Healing, Vancian, and No Dissociative...

I guess technically this isn't the right thread but I'll ask anyway. I'd love to see an old school DCC module line like they did in the past. They looked like 1e modules and played like 1e modules. I don't really care for DCC RPG though I do own it. But I would like to be able to use an OSR...