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On this topic I will put in a plug for Frog God Games, which is to say Necromancer Games. In November (as in this month) FGG is releasing a re-written version of 0e. By that, I mean the edition prior to First Edition. The main complaint voiced about this 1974-1977 edition is that (a) the box...

You have now entered the slippery slope that leads to OD&D 1974 (or Swords & Wizardry if you're strapped for cash and don't want to download pirate pdfs). :) Welcome to the dark side.

First off, all the various retro-clones are pretty similar - they work off different editions that were themselves quite similar. For simplicity, I'd say you're looking at one of three: Swords & Wizardry, Labyrinth Lord, and BFRPG. The latter two BOTH work from Moldvay Basic; LL is a very close...

From NTRPGCon, 15 players is my absolute, will-not-exceed max, and 9-10 would be the preferred number. I had a 15 player group for one session, and it got rough around the edges. Not in terms of handling the DMing, but in terms of handling it when players started to rub each other the wrong way...

EDITED: Can't figure out how to delete the actual thread, but I realized I should contact the publisher who's using the license before saying anything "out loud," as it were.

Yes, it's completely legal for people to modify and post a complete house-ruled set of Swords & Wizardry rules, although I've asked FlyingCircus to put "House Rules" with the title, since this isn't an official third edition of the S&W Rules, it is a house-ruled version. Thanks, Matt Finch...

It's not JUST for kids, though. :)

Erm, in an existential sense, perhaps. I was talking about whether player decisions do or do not affect outcomes. In a game. :)

Actually, here's my cool new definition. A sandbox is a world that operates according to certain internal rules (many of them embodied in random generation tables). It is a world that can be beaten, and it is a world that doesn't pull its punches, either. For this reason, player choices are...

Let's assume there are two areas where "orc horde" appears on the encounter chart. In one area, highly patrolled, the chance is very small to encounter the moving orc horde - in the other, mountainous region, an orc horde is a high probability. Player choice affects the probability of the...

I'd say sandbox. I posted above on it, but I think it's still definitely a sandbox if the DM has index cards - or whatever - with pregen encounters that can be subbed in wherever necessary. As long as the players can avoid the RISK of encountering that as-yet-inchoate risk, it's still a sandbox...

This is brilliantly stated. How do you give someone those compliment-thingies? [EDIT - Never mind, figured it out. Little scales at the bottom left grant xp.]

Sometimes terminology gets in the way of actual meaningful discussion that's useful to gaming. Not that it's bad to discuss terminology, just to keep it in perspective. It's a bit like the whole "what is old school" debate that rears up from time to time with relative meaninglessness. I don't...

B1. No, wait. It's B2. Actually, maybe it's G1. I don't know the answer. Damn. :hmm:

Yup. Me too.

Glad you enjoyed the Primer! Feel free to swing over to the Swords & Wizardry website (see sig, I think) if you want to ask about S&W or Original D&D. EDIT - It's not in my sig - the address is www.swordsandwizardry.com (and then hit the button for the forums). The answer to your question is...

Nah, we just hand out candy. :)

Still use it. What's REALLY fun is reading the entries from years ago.

Thanks for the kudos, everyone! :) I've written two modules since Pod Caverns. I wouldn't give a general recommendation on Tomb of the Iron God because it's an introductory adventure for Swords & Wizardry (0E retro-clone), and as such it's more of a meat-and-potatoes dungeon crawl for newer...

When boxed text is very short, it's a good thing because it (a) keeps the DM from missing some important detail, and (b) allows you not to break eye contact. Having a DM read aloud for more than a couple of seconds is awful. Boxed text that tells players what their characters "feel" are usually...