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It's not easier for you. I'm having a lot of fun running Eve of Ruin (much to my surprise), and I do minimal preparation for each session. (Apparently a LOT of experience running adventures helps me run these). Cheers, Merric

You are old. You get to learn about how old you are when you go back to events in your life and realise your co-workers weren't born then. Things like the Lord of the Rings films. Cheers, Merric

Mork Borg is the most prominent example to me of feeling very Old School whilst not being D&D. Cheers, Merric

One of the troubles with "Old School campaigns lasted a long time" is that, for the vast majority, they didn't. A very few continued. Most ended - and didn't even last a year. The more modern design of faster levelling (which is now 24 years old - yikes!) was in large part due to that...

Like many things, the true impact of the deities is how they get used - and in the RPG sphere, especially in official products. So, strangely enough, the very first Greyhawk deity to appear... is the Elder Elemental God! Closely followed by Lolth! :) (Of course, there are almost no details...

Quite possibly... but Wizards really has it in for Bandits! The Bandit Kingdoms have been referred to internally as the "Combination of Free Lords" - LGG25. So on that theory you'd expect it to be renamed as well. :) Meanwhile, the orc horde that devastated Phandalin has become... bandits...

You can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_bifurcation

Winging it is something I do a lot... but relies on years of preparation and experience in how D&D adventures and encounters work, and what "fits" the game and the World of Greyhawk in particular. Improvisation is a skill! Cheers, Merric

I'd keep Iuz (since he's on the map!), St Cuthbert, his devout foe, and Zagyg. After that, put in new deities or not as you please. I regularly ignore a lot of the Greyhawk pantheon, concentrating on the gods I like. (Currently Xan Yae and St Cuthbert). I believe in the original games, the...

You find yourself in Evernight... You need to get out of here. The adventure immediately leads you to a marketplace, where the first person you talk to has exactly the information you need. You go to the place they mention, kill a couple of monsters, and escape. It feels very much like "We...

I'm dreadfully behind with session reports (it's a lot harder in winter, which it is at the moment - also busy with work). And I don't have time now! But just for where we are at present: We started our exploration of the Death House (the Ravenloft chapter) today. We had a lot of fun. I could...

Ten minutes is weird, because it's FAR longer than most combats in 5E (especially in Wizards adventures, where 3 rounds often is long). But it's not enough to accommodate exploration. So, it means the players rush from one room to the next without checking anything because otherwise their...

Here's one change that I actually think is underwhelming: Oath of Devotion has "sacred weapon" and similar lasting 10 minutes rather than 1. However, I'm old school. 10 minutes is the length of a combat or an exploration turn, so it doesn't actually extend it enough! (It only works if you rush...

Adventures need structure. There are a lot of potential structures. And within those structures are encounters and situations. Having a goal is not a bad thing.

Brothers.

B/X was such a clean, elegant system (and well explained) - everything AD&D was not. But AD&D just had lots more interesting stuff. And Race/Class was central to it. Cheers, Merric

Amazon is currently telling me my copy will arrive July 10th. I hope they're being conservative...

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