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OD&D FUN FACT : Random rolls. The DM is supposed to roll the six abilities of each character. The player notes them down in order. I guess Gary was worried about cheaters too ! Source OD&D reprints:

I have no need for 5.5 or 6e. I'll just stick with 5e or play another RPG. As long as I role-play, a game I like, I'm happy. Doesn't have to be D&D.

Cloud Giant 30 Cyclops 27 Ettin 30+1=31 Fire Giant 29 Fire Giant Dreadnought 10 Fog Giant 7-2=5 Frost Giant 34 Guardian Giant 11 Hill Giant 32

Not impressed by the article. Empire is still my top SW movie after all these years. It gave the saga the dramatic weight and depth it need.

Time to place my bets! (this game reminds me of Titans the card game by AH*) Cloud Giant 30 Cyclops 25 Ettin 29+1=30 Fire Giant 29 Fire Giant Dreadnought 14 Fog Giant 13-2=11 Frost Giant 34 Guardian Giant 13 Hill Giant 32 (*reprised by FFG as Colossal Arena)

Please tell me how to cast spell, in real life !!! I really want to learn how to do it!:p

Underwhelmed by «Blue Remembered Earth», Alastair Reynolds. I have no appetite for rich spoiled kids rumping around the Solar system on a wild goose chase instigated by their grand-mother before death. Very weak characterization, descriptions and plot. Definitely not at the same level as...

Equal chances of being unequal when rolling. Characters at both ends for the curve should be rejected when using random rolls. Not just the weak ones. Uber ones should also be discarded. If you are going to use all kinds of dice shenanigans to average the randomness of results towards the middle...

Yep! Character suicide was a thing with random attribute rolls. Charging mindlessly into combat to get killed on purpose.

Even during the Basic and AD&D 1e era my players wanted to shoe horn their stats in the best positions. This is not a modern thing. We quickly abandoned the official method. Players chose class first, then rolled. Considering we were going for the long haul and the number of XPs was gargantuan...

If they can't make a movie as good or better than Willow they should just refrain. Willow is the best D&D movie ever made. :ROFLMAO:

Nothing. With the current books (and two starter sets) I can run D&D games for ever.

I wouldn't assume the ALL tables allow the ALL classes from ALL the books ALL the time. My group has a Cavalier and an Arcane Archer.

I don't see Perilous Lands as an OSR game but rather as a distillation of 5e. The days of the percentile thief are gone for me (even if I sometimes lament their disappearance out of nostalgia but I come back to my senses quickly.) In combat, Perilous' thief works well as a flanking expert. With...

This is the streamlined version of D&D 5e I was looking for. Everything is resolved using Roll Under against your Ability. Love the setting too. Just finished my first quick read of the rules section. It's almost as if the rules were written for me. Love how the Advantage / Disadvantage was...

Not with Slow Natural Healing. I would say everything is finally finely tuned, for 20 levels! I just can't go back. Let's agree to disagree. ;)

Effects and traps can be replicated easily. I really don't mind that level drain is left out. We didn't like that in 1982 anyway. Glad it was removed as well as other «irritants». For me the nostalgia is not about the ruleset. It's about a time when I was carefree (only school and play) and...

Why a movie? A Netflix series would be a much better vehicle. D&D can certainly beat the crap out of the Witcher. ;)

I DM my D&D 5e campaigns the exact same way I did 1e. 5e is very easy to customize. For a Basic feel use the Basic 5e pdf. Use the Slow Healing Rule of the DMG and crank up the difficulty level of the encounters. Finally, make gonzo mega-dungeon crawls with traps, puzzles and fill it with...

Totally agree. That iteration of D&D 4e works really well with Gamma World.