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Following my last post... Contrast these 4e quotes with that of the quotes in my post above:

One of the big discrepancies between what many modern viewers see as "a whole bunch of treasure" and this slower advancement rate is that the party was assumed to have a lot more characters - 6 to 8 pcs plus a similar number of henchmen, retainers, and other hangers on, versus the more standard...

OOP D&D was hardly consistent with how it handled miniatures in the game, and one's view on minies may vary depending on what source you came in with. For example, miniatures are mentioned once in the entire 1e Players Handbook, and only then as a very obscure footnote with regard to range and...

I didn't use it back in the day, largely because I didn't have it. The notes I used tended to resemble the Log. If I were to run a 1e game now, I'd definitely use it.

Steve Marsh was a major contributor to Monsters of Myth.

I very much like Pod Caverns and think it is quite comparable to the classic TSR adventures of c. '78-'81. The only issue I can recall with the map is that I don't think there was a scale. Simply deciding each square is 5' or 10' works perfectly fine. As for the monster descriptions, they...

Expect a goofy, cheesy comedy that satirizes old mystery movies, not a cinematic masterpiece, and you'll be pleased.

I don't understand this attitude at all. A threat is put in front of the party. The party engages or doesn't. The party succeeds in the engagement or doesn't. The party lives with the consequences of their actions. Am I, as DM, not supposed to put challenges in front of the party? Are all...

Not just Tim Curry, but also (the immortal, exceptional, late, great, gone, but not forgotten) Madeline Kahn, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, and Howard Hesseman, among others. Clue was filmed with multiple surprise endings, and they would switch it up every...

The "Classic" run of Dragon will have a lot to do with what you're looking for out of the magazine. If you're looking for a general gaming magazine with a focus on rpgs, the early years of the magazine will more suit you. If you're looking for a magazine that focuses exclusively on AD&D, the...

And row (rhymes with "cow") is the same thing as a melee (pronounced "may-lay"). Thus bringing this whole conversation full circle.

With radical new editions that are essentially new games, as I would describe both 2e>3e and 3.5e>4e, the idealist in me wishes the company would have the stones to give the new game a new game. Then we, the consumers, would be able to judge the game fully on its own merits, allowing the new...

Last time I played 2e... Probably about 1991 when I got disgusted with it and traded a bunch of my 2e stuff for a bunch of B/X stuff. Last 2e product I purchased was probably in 1994, when I got some of the new 2e Mystara stuff, after TSR had ended the D&D line. Hated it, never bought...

It's very similar to the 1e U-series (Secret of Saltmarsh, etc.) and could be very easily used to in conjunction with them. In fact, I've often wondered if the author didn't write the module originally as a gap filler between U2 and U3. That's certainly how I'd use it.

Frankly, I'm to the point where I think that any rpg that can't get its core rules stated in about 120 pages isn't trying hard enough. If 4e is tee-ball, I'm just playing catch in the back yard with B/X D&D, Labyrinth Lord, Tunnels & Trolls, and Encounter Critical. I've promised myself to...

Regarding downloading... When you download something from a server, you are making a new copy. Before there was a copy on the server. Now there's a copy on the server and on your hard drive.

U.S. Copyright Act section 501(a): U.S. Copyright Act section 106: The vast majority of D&D .pdf copyright issues will fall under the purview of these two laws. Read up and draw your own conclusion. For the rest of the Act, see here: U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law of the United...

I believe the compromise has already occurred. WotC agrees to stop selling the .pdf files, while we, the consumers, agree to deal with it. I don't personally care about the newer stuff, but I'd still like to see the oop editions available again. Unless they were somehow losing money on the...

You can go to a concert and see your all time favorite band. But if your seat is where you can't see the stage, if the sound system makes it impossible to hear the music, and the crowd is full of unpleasant people, you're simply not going to have a good time. On the other hand, you could have...

Mystara is not bland. There are all sorts of things to criticize Mystara for... Lack of coherence, lack of seriousness, lack of any direction whatsoever, etc. However, blandness is not one of them. Or at least that's what the samuraii cat-man from the invisible second moon said to the French...