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Luckily we did both! We picked the DMs carefully and we had a hastily put together point system. :) I probably wasn't clear about what I meant when I said, "IMO, there is really no way to adjudicate equally in 1e." By that I meant that talking about the variance in DM style. The play of the...

I am not edition agnostic. I group them into a three categories: (Basic, 1e, 2e), (3e, 3.5, Pathfinder), (4e). joe b.

We at Expeditious Retreat Press are proud to announce the release of our first role-playing game, Sorcery & Super Science! This post-apocalypic role-playing game is a mix of gonzo and lethality. It's concise (only 48 pages), quickly learned, and you should be able to run a quick game after the...

Yes. However, the players need to understand that no rules-set will be optimal for an rpg given the complete openess of "the game" and play their PCs as if they were there, not as if they are a collection of rules. Regardless what system they're using. I was reading The Temple of Elemental Evil...

Totally missed this thread. :) To answer some questions about rules and equal adjudication: IMO, there is really no way to adjudicate equally in 1e (I think it's just not a homogenized ruleset to do such and expects individual DM customization), so the main factor in trying to make the tourney...

I don't think of time as only a resource to be managed because I don't think of role-playing as "a game with resources" - I think of it as "playing pretend" - which is a much larger box. The player characters in a game have just as much time as we here in the real world have, and like the great...

There's two answers to this "problem" based upon if you build the game world around the players (the challenge of a location changes based upon PC power) or if you build the game world independent of the players (the challenges of a location do not change based upon PC power). If you do the...

I agree. And here is the only problem, IMO. The belief that D&D is designed to model archetypes and mimic narratives outside narration. It's designed to model archetypes (very roughly), but only in relation to a game, not a narrative. It is the desire to mimic narratives that lead people to...

No I don't, for two reasons - both IMO. 1. Evil is boring. 2. Sex is fun when you're having it. Talking about it is boring. joe b.

I'm still waiting on this one. joe b.

When WotC has said repeatedly in the past that one of the many serious failings of TSR was keeping open multiple product-lines for D&D (Advanced, Basic), it does seem a bit questionable for any of us to assume that they are now going to do just that. It's a possibility, I suppose, but I would be...

And a final bump before the sale ends. :) joe b.

Interesting. joe b.

Ah, sorry man. We'll probably have a sale on those (along with everything we sell) during our big holiday sale, I'd guess at about 20-25% off. joe b.

We at Expeditious Retreat Press have placed almost all our 4e books on sale for $4 at our website. I say almost all because two of our larger books, the 4e Freeport Companion and Nevermore are on sale for $10 (which is around 65% off). The sale lasts all month, so drop buy and pick up some...

:) We're aiming for the gonzo of Thundarr coupled with the deadliness of The Road Warrior. joe b.

Our new gonzo post-apocalyptic role-playing game (coming out around August 2010) has a cover! After the cracking of the moon and before the rise of Atlantis the world was a place strange to the thoughts of honest men. The death throes of science amid the birth of magic sculpted new generations...

Advanced Adventures #14: The Verdant Vault of Malakum is An OSRIC(tm) module designed for 4-6 adventures of levels 8-10 written by Alphonso Warden. Well over 2,000 years ago, there existed a vast jungle kingdom ruled by a man called Malakum, who was descended from a long line of mage-kings...

It's rational to assume that spokespeople of a company put positive spins on situations because it is ubiquitously common. joe b.

Advanced Adventures #12: White Dragon Runis an OSRIC(TM) module designed for 4-6 adventurers of levels 2-4, written by James Boney. The little village of White Dragon Run is at the edge of civilization - the place where monsters are a constant threat and adventurers thrive. It is here that...