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I thought for sure when he said that about claymores he was talking about the anti-personnel device- It sounded a lot more probable than someone making a sword that way. :)

97. Every time any character (including monks) makes an unarmed strike, they must save vs. boxer's fracture. 98. T-Rex are actually timid scavengers. 99. Every dungeon-based random encounter table must include Inky Blinky Pinky Clyde Cherry 100. Players simultaneously play a game of 1000...

I see your point. Personally, I don't even consider weapon speed tables- I just use roll d6 for each side. I would like to try weapon vs. AC though. Personally, I'd hope that seeing all these swords listed would get people to learn the difference between them- and therefore an end to the...

95. Vampires get a penalty of 5 to AC vs. witty blonde teengirls.

I, Isaac Murphy AKA Stayman W. Winesap, pledge to not make ENWorld's forums (or any other forums for that matter) a hellscape of flame wars. I will respect my fellow posters and will not dismiss their opinions out of hand because they're on "Team 4E" or "Team Pathfinder" or "Team 5E" or any...

I was playing my first game of OD&D EVER the other day, and the castle of a local lord was being attacked by a four-man team of viking mercernaries (largely the PCs' fault). We ran in there to try to stop them from killing him, and I decided to do a little looting in the confusion. I figured...

IMO, the way that Gygax got all the polearms in 1e to have substantially different stats was with the Weapon vs. AC table. I've never played 1e before, so though it sounds cool to me, I can't vouch for it beyond the fact that just keeping a small reference sheet within reach doesn't sound that...

Fireball, Lightning Bolt, and Magic Missile.

85. The rulebook will specifically make note of the fact that any race may eat members of other races without *technically* being a cannibal, and include notes on which are the tastiest (orc: Tastes like pork. Old pork.) 86. Everybody on the Microlite20 forums will get to include one of their...

As a player, I'd really like to play in old-school 'tough-love' games, where you always start at 1st level regardless of the rest of the party, and 1st level characters drop like flies if you act stupid. So I'll introduce a Fighter named 'Macintosh', Then if he dies, I'll bring in another...

All of OD&D/BECMI is vague. Rules Cyclopedia has an incredibly vestigial skill system which is, of course, optional. Arguments don't happen at my gaming table because the players are playing against the environment, not me. If someone wants to pick a lock, then I'll give them a probability, they...

Multiple Attacks: my mistake, thanks. Subterfuge: I intended it to be vague- I feel that the chances for use of Thief skills are basically ad-hoc anyway, so making your own chances using 2d6, d20 or whatever gets you more involved in the game. I also didn't want to either (Use or invent a...

This is a homebrew assassin class I made for Rules Cyclopedia/BECMI/BX. I wanted it to have 36 levels, while still following the balance shown in 1e and Advanced Edition Companion. I also wanted to distance it from the thief class- I mainly wanted to REPLACE the thief, which is essentially...

I don't know... I've learned a lot about myself and my friends playing games. I've tried to avoid the idiosyncrasies of religion, and just present opposing viewpoints for a character to lean to, independent of what is societally acceptable.

Bear in mind that this post is largely based on my own moral upbringing, which is non-church-going judeo-christian as dictated by parents who love Bob Dylan and the Grateful dead, flavored with Tolkien, Dennis Schmidt, Joss Whedon, Heinlein’s ‘the moon is a harsh mistress’, south park (gradually...

One of the first NPCs I ever played was a dwarven barbarian (I always forgot to actually use his rage ability) who filled in the tank role for the party (the two players I had at the time were Wizard and Gish). He would always call anyone he killed with his dwarven axe an 'axe-face'. In ADOM I...

I like how you rated this guy as Evil despite his only killing goblinoids- Moral relativism is necessary for society, but it's good to have clarity of thought. (says my 'harangue the masses/preacher' personality)

True, but from my point of view, OD&D is extremely different from what we now think of as D&D, and AD&D was where they actually got big, went beyond pamphlets with passable art, and started getting the religious activists riled up. Of course, this is speaking from my point of view as a dabbler...

In American D&D, there are half-orcs and half-elves. In Soviet Russian D&D, there are half-humans and half-humans. In American D&D, you take feats. In Soviet Russian D&D, the drow interrogators take your feets! In American D&D, Everybody laughs at the gelatinous cube and owlbear. In Soviet...

I meant in that Led Zeppelin came first, and is radically different from our current definition of metal. P.S.: I always wanted to do a dungeonland style adventure, set entirely to Dead songs e.g. cosmic charlie, china cat sunflower, what's become of the baby