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I find it hard to get too worked up or offended by that B2 review since 1) it was written 8 years ago (I certainly said/wrote plenty of things 8 years ago, some of which are probably presevred online somewhere, that I don't particularly endorse today -- and yet I don't feel an obligation to make...

I understand and appreciate that Mearls' job at WotC is to be a "rules-cruncher" more or less, and that it's therefore natural that he seemingly approaches everything (at least in his columns) from that perspective, and is always seemingly trying to tweak and enhance the rules to make D&D into a...

The real reason is that the damage values in OD&D Supplement I were against "man-sized opponents" and "larger opponents," based on damage against men and damage against horses (blunt weapons and small weapons (daggers, hand axes) are generally less effective against horses than men; large...

This post makes no sense. What you're talking about is reflected entirely in the fact that larger creatures have more hp. An 8-point slash from a longsword is a mortal wound to an average human with 5 hp; to a giant with 38 hp the same slash does less than a quarter of his hp -- the equaivalent...

I ignored all the mechanical stuff (since I don't play either d20 or LA) so I can't tell you much about it -- there are quite a few new monsters and magic items, though. Don't think there are any new classes, can't remember if there are any new rules or not. The adventure itself is a mixed bag...

Yeah! Woo-hoo! OD&D FTW! :p

Have you read the "Book of the New Sun" series by Gene Wolfe (Shadow of the Torturer, et al.)? Pretty good stuff there, published (IIRC) in the early 80s.

But isn't recognizing that and not going ahead and churning out a bunch of mediocre shlock for money anyway pretty much the definition of stopping while you're ahead? (Plus, I'd argue JDS had 4 great books in him -- one novel (The Catcher in the Rye), one quasi-novel that's actually probably...

No. Judges Guild and Necro had already gone their separate ways and Tegel Manor was already scheduled to be Necro's last JG release. Future JG d20 reprints (starting with, I believe, Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor) are being done by Goodman Games, and new Wilderlands C&C stuff is being done by...

RQ 2nd edition is simpler and has more specific flavor built into the rules (which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your perspective); RQ 3rd edition is more comprehensive and polished, but also more complicated, less flavorful, and some of the rules additions (specifically...

Your objection (which, honestly, I'm not sure I even understand) seems tangential to my original point, which wasn't based on how the tables are structured but rather on the distribution of the die roll itself -- a 1d20 roll has a wide, flat distribution, and a +1 modifier will always increase...

Not sure why this thread is labeled with the "1E/2E/OD&D" tag since the complaints and examples seem to apply mostly to the current edition, but since the tag lured me into reading the thread and I'm here anyway, I might as well respond: This is a matter of perspective, and is helped by...

Harper Lee? J.D. Salinger?

I used these sheets a couple times, but ultimately decided they were more hassle than they're worth -- having to fill all that info out every session takes too much time/effort. Plus, theses sheets only really "work" when used in conjunction with the permanent character folder because there's...

I actually had to look this up in the 1E FF to convince myself you guys weren't just making this up. Sure enough, it's there and I'd managed to completely overlook it for 20+ years -- shows how much I use githyanki in my games, and how much time I spend discussing "builds" on the Wizards site, I...

It's actually 2000gp for the 1st level spell book, doubled for each higher level (so 4000gp for 2nd level, 8000gp for 3rd, 16,000gp for 4th, 32,000gp for 5th, and a whopping 64,000gp for 6th) but I've always read that as being the total cost per book (i.e. including all spells of the appropriate...

Never heard it in a gaming context before this thread. Agree that it's terrible. Lillian Gish was awesome, and her sister Dorothy was pretty good too (at her best alongside Lillian in Griffith's Orphans of the Storm). I don't like the Smashing Pumpkins :o

Adding to Quasqueton's post above, OD&D values are all the same as the B/XD&D values with the following exceptions: OD&D: 50cp = 10sp = (2ep)* = 1gp = (1/2ep)* = (1/5pp)* -- 10 coins = 1 pound *("If electrum is added it is optionally worth either twice or half the value of Gold. Platinum is...

FWIW, the spellbook rules that later showed up in Unearthed Arcana originally appeared in Dragon #62 (June 1982) in Gary Gygax's "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" column.

There's only a few, they're the biggest weapons of he type (morning star, footman's flail, etc.), and they only do a little more damage (1 or 2 points more). Most bludgeoning weapons (hammer, club, horseman's mance, etc.) do less damage against large opponents. The reasoning probably had...