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Oxygen-eating plant people are sealed in a room or area of dungeon and dormant. When PC's kick open a door the air rushes in, the plants explode out, and they consume all the breathable air, requiring PC's to save or pass out, and the conscious ones make a second save against confusion. Other...

15d8 - and still wearing leather armor and using wood shields. Don't worry about it.

Yes. Short-short version - play your character reasonably, consistently (within obvious constraints/freedoms that alignment DOES grant), and without trying to just be a dick as a player. The rest will usually sort itself out just fine. If they don't, they're free to run their own game and do...

We tend to refer to such sessions as playing, "Papers and Paychecks," after the old 1E DMG illustration. They usually involve PC's simply doing non-combat/non-adventure stuff like buying particular equipment, doing research, paying for information, planning, sorting through upkeep on their...

Came in to say "Throatwarbler Mangrove".

I have never had a substantial problem with alignment in any game I've played in or run since 1976 when I started playing. I explain my alignment concerns to players at the outset of any campaign. If something comes up in-game, I explain it again and players make choices while FULLY informed...

Not a wall, but there IS a separation. Even between 1E and 2E there is the same separation, despite 2E being deliberately designed to be exceptionally backward-compatible.

Balance is a crock of sewage. Balance is STAGNATION. Imbalance is dynamic.

The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson

Again, that's not quite right/clear. Initiative in 1E is side vs. side. Each side rolls 1d6. Side with higher roll goes first (because reading the initiative dice is "backwards" - where the higher roll YOUR side makes is indicative of the later segment in which the opponents get to attack...

Holmes Basic: 1976, (1 year), Technically, maybe two years, going well into 1977 and beyond before we obtained the AD&D PH and we had more than just monster stats for AD&D rules. AD&D (1E): 1977 to 1989, 2008-2022 (26 years) Those are just the ACTIVE years. In a sense, I never really stopped...

The correct use of weapon speed in AD&D (1E) was just to break initiative ties - which, because the initiative roll was a d6, was only going to happen 1 round in 6. It was also used in a really clunky way to decide initiative when a melee weapon was comparing to a spell being cast. It wasn't...

1E PH, DMG, and MM. I really haven't needed more than that for 40 years. Most (but not all!) of my house rules in that time have been wastes of time.

I reject the premise that D&D should be even close to super-heroes, even at 20th level. But that's just me.

Not all D&D is 5E though, and even when the edition changes, not all the changes are good ideas that anybody has to comply with. So I don't. Demons and devils, for me at least if not others, have not been changed since 1E since nothing about them (names, special abilities, usage within a...

? I did read the post, which contained no questions to answer so I responded with an extremely abbreviated account of my own experiences. If I actually missed something in the OP, well you got me. I read it again (a couple times). As far as I can recall I'm not wrong...

They never left, so nothing to miss.

My damage is plaid.

Technically it was the Holmes rulebook - and I still have it - but that was photocopied at his dad's office by the guy who owned it so we could play. The first product I otherwise obtained was the AD&D Players Handbook (1E). That one I don't have anymore :.-( because when 2E came out I thought...

I've never known players who join in to play D&D so that they can play mass-combat battles of armies-versus-armies instead of the personal exploits of their PC and immediate companions. D&D isn't well-suited to playing out large-scale warfare and when it DOES veer into that, it works best when...