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Fall of '78. I had just started college. I came across a flyer advertising "Bilbo's Birthday Party" - the annual recruiting bash for the university's Tolkien society. And already being a big Tolkien fan, I of course went. And there were a lot of D&D players, wargamers, SCA members, SF fans etc...

I do something similar in my homebrew. The standard gold pieces have a bunch of different names, depending on the nation that minted them. However, I also have gold "half crowns" (half the weight and value of the standard gp) and gold "marks" (one-quarter the weight and value of the standard...

I like the *concept* of point buy, and it's the right system for Hero, GURPS, etc. I also see the problem of random rolls blessing or hosing the player due to the whim of the Dice Gods. OTOH, I see randomness in character generation as an important D&D tradition, and I dislike the way the...

I started back when AD&D 1e was just coming out - the Monster Manual and PHB were available, but not the DMG. My take is that 3.5 isn't really any more complicated than 1e, it just seems like it because the 1e rules tended to be too confusing for mere mortals to follow. So most of the complexity...

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