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There are a whole bunch of really good reasons why Dark Ages warriors didn't wield rapier-like weapons.

I never cease to be puzzled by gamers who say words to the effect of, 'D&D would be so much better if it stopped being D&D!' Pretty much everything that gamers ask for can be found in other roleplaying games, but some gamers insist that D&D be changed to fit their vision, rather than finding a...

Personally, I would rather discover this in actual play than be told in advance. That said, I'm not your player.

That's very well said; spot on. That's pretty similar to how we handle new character introductions as well; frex, in my current campaign, a new character was introduced as a fencing instructor at the same school where an existing character teaches. The game I'm running right now - Flashing...

See, I'm the exact opposite. A player who tries to give me family, friends, and mentors at the start of the game is welcome to do so for their own use, but they're wasting their time if they expect me to do something with them. I encourage the players to start families and make friends and find...

Yeah, that's how I take it, too. I've likened my Flashing Blades campaign to a dungeon crawl in which the 'rooms' are different personages and the 'corridors' are the relationships between them; intrigues are 'secret passages' connecting characters. The difference is that these 'rooms' and...

I like my variety spicy!

We used them, and if I were to run AD&D again in the future, I would use them in that campaign as well. Demihumans almost always multi-classed in our games, so even if one class topped out, they were usually gaining levels in the other class along with the single-classed humans. Some years ago...

This. And this. But most especially this.

Whizbros' marketing reeks of flop sweat. Five in the case of Flashing Blades, the game I'm running right now: a core book, a supplement, an 'adventure path,' and two books of shorter adventures. I bought the .pdfs, and printed out they fit into a standard size report cover. That's my whole...

Sanity checks. For the players. Yeah, that was one crappy module.

Good examples, TheAuldGrump. Around half of my random encounters are events occurring in media res, like the Grump's bandits attacking a caravan or settling an internal dispute. These encounters often represent an opportunity for the adventurers to make a choice which carries consequences: will...

Fantasy is my second-least-favorite genre of roleplaying games, just barely ahead of supers. That said, there are a couple of fantasy roleplaying game settings I like, the Wilderlands of High Fantasy and Manifest (from Ghostwalk). I like the wide-open, red-in-tooth-and-claw nature of the...

No games get played without someone to run them. And btw, I brought in one player, he brought in two more, and one of those two brought in a fourth. All had played roleplaying games, but only two of us had experience with Flashing Blades. (hat-tip to @sakganesh for that) In the misty days of...

Could someone please xp-bomb JamesonCourage for me, please? Here's something I wrote about bandits awhile back. My ultimate limbo-stick is, does the game-world reflect the genre? If the genre is one in which bandits, frex, are an expected hazard, then not having bandits would take away from...

Could, "I stopped enjoying either edition of AD&D for a variety of reasons," make exactly the same point without the lengthy digression? Or was the lengthy digression actually the point? Hell yes. It was the experience of playing d20 games which fired a renewed interest in the roleplaying...

I'll be sure to link this post the next time you or anyone else starts crying about edition wars. And maybe I'll dig up some of my old posts on why I stopped playing 3e, and dump them at random into unrelated threads, since I'm free to talk about not liking it without being jumped on. My point...

Seriously, does any of this have anything to do with the subject of your post? If you had left all of this out of your post, would it have made any difference at all to your argument? Or is the opportunity to slag older editions of D&D just too tempting to pass up? First, do you understand that...

Giant rats.

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