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Yes, it does. And pemerton just quoted it for us. And my issue isn’t the grid. The nature of the use of the grid changed as the rules became more grid focused, and changed even more with the modification of a round, the alteration of where your entire round’s worth of movement occurs on your...

We had those mats too, and I had some cardboard pieces for laying out dungeons that were 10’ x 10’ squares (with 4 5’ flagstones), but the rules weren’t centered around squares and such yet. They acted more as scenery and visual aids than a direct tie to mechanics. I call the Combat &...

I have those dice! And for the OP - I’d say you disqualified yourself from being a grognard by NOT using theater of the mind. Oh, we had minis. But battlemats? Grids? Bah! That didn’t start until 2.5e. If a measurement needs to be made it’s with string or a tape. But really the minis were to...

Yes, they were originally published in Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Vol II, in 1991. As for the OP - They were chaotic evil from the beginning, and if I recall were mentioned someplace as being a chromatic dragon - purple. However, 2e also has a purple dragon. They work with drow, and...

My general campaign is designed like this, and each player has at least three characters. That way they can choose an available character depending on which players show up. For a while I was running two nights, with an overlapping group of players, and all were in the same time and place...

I don’t have a problem with that, and that’s pretty much a standard technique of a staff or pollaxe for that matter.

Good point on the monk weapons, although adding a bo stick or similar weapon back in the game can address that (they were even in 1e). Of course, if you make a bo stick that works like a quarterstaff, and a quarterstaff that is two-handed, then people just pick the bo stick. What it really...

This is really something that is going to depend on the player and the group. I (and my group) would agree with you, although there would rarely be a roll, they’ll just go by their ability scores and role play it appropriately. For too many players, though, they feel it goes against their...

Some people may never get the rules of the game. Of course, as an old AD&D guy where the DM handled the rules and the players just had to roll the dice and tell the DM the result, I have no problem with this. I love having new players at my table, and many times they are players that otherwise...

The lair shouldn’t resemble anything that we would consider inhabitable. Other than natural caverns, the only way a beholder could build a lair is that somebody else builds it (charm, taking over something existing, etc) or disintegration. In addition, it has no need for a flat floor or...

Something I’ve thought about for a while. I heavily modify our rules, yet to me (and the group) it’s still D&D. The FEEL of our game is very AD&D-like, but I think that’s because that’s how I DM. The mechanics themselves are of less importance to us, but that’s in part because my approach is...

Mechanically, yes. Psychologically no. It would be like making a T-shirt with a d20 on a 20 that says “Crit Happens*” “*when confirmed.” In all prior (and later) editions, a 20 is a critical. So the new rule altered the result of the roll. Generally when somebody throws a 20, that’s the big...

Ahhh. It was hard to follow. Thanks for the clarification!

Yeah, while there may be a few that agree with you, the game and edition is selling better and more popular than pretty much any prior one. From WotC’s perspective it is an incredible success and it would appear that there is a significant portion of the gaming community that agrees.

Because you’ve said that an Inspiration die is cheating. Which is the exact same mechanic as confirming a critical. It’s a critical, wait, not it’s not. It’s a hit, wait no it’s not. Am I missing something?

Unless we didn't like the concept in the earlier editions, perhaps? I don't have an issue with multiclassing, though, although I sometimes have an issue with the mechanics. Regardless, I can make any of them work. My primary issues are with the optimization approaches, dips into other classes...

Ok, I’m not trying to exasperate you. Your definition of cheating seems to mirror (if not exactly perhaps) Hussar’s in that any modification of the die after it is thrown is “cheating.” I would think that an advantage mechanic where two dice are thrown and you pick the better is not to either of...

I know what you think. I wasn’t asking you at this point. You obviously believe any mechanic that refills a die is cheating. Okidoki. I will forever disagree with that. At this point I’m trying to get to the finer points that others besides you who believe that some rules allowing rerolling the...

This seems like a false equivalence. Oh, and here I was trying to purposefully propagate what I consider improper terminology. :p You seem to be under the impression that if you repeat something often enough then it becomes true or that I will suddenly believe it. And this often appears true...

As I clarified in another post, I don’t expect folks to play out their economies in that way. Just that the short cut to make it playable doesn’t scale out to measure the economy of the world over time. I also don’t expect there’s a particularly booming business cutting rubies, since they...