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Tragically, no. I've liked the first FASERIP retroclone, which basically takes the chassis from a mashup of Basic and Advanced and mashes it up with the Great Power supplement for Icons: Assembled. Though I don't condone piracy, I will note that a Google search will disclose a pile of PDFs...

This is a hobby horse of mine and pedantic as hell, but I would say the original yellow box for the Marvel Superheroes RPG (1984). A lot of people think of it as the basic version of the more widely known (and loved) Advanced rules (1986), but they're quite different beasts and play at the table...

100% this. V:tM (2nd ed) was such a watershed RPG for me in high school. But even my first pass at it had me house-ruling to shore up some of the obvious sticking points. By the time we got in college and realized how many more botches were being rolled with high skill characters, we kind of...

I finally broke down and hit "Ignore." I can't help but wonder why someone would hang out on a primarily 5e board only to use any conversational opening/excuse to bash the edition even when no one asked or it's not germane to the topic at hand. What is this experience affording you?

It's just a really good example of a well-designed vanilla fantasy dungeon. It rewards scouting the external terrain with alternative points of entry (rather than the obvious--but fraught--opening). Multiple ways of approaching conflict including stealth, trickery, persuasion, etc. in addition...

I'll also add that I've come to prefer a different approach to bigger dungeons than the megadungeon. That is, rather than deeper, I wish they'd go "broader." When I was younger, I always dreamed of getting to run Undermountain back in 2e. When I finally had a chance to run it a few times for 5e...

Another boost for Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury. 3.x has become my least favorite D&D edition, but those two modules are great. As a player, some of the most fun I've had with a dungeon was probably at GenCon in a session for Stonehell. Old school crawlin' at its finest.

Roll20, but mostly because of sunk cost these days.

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Despite not being a "stuff" person, I'm going to say I have two prized D&D items. Probably my most prized would be a beat up secondhand copy of the Moldvay Basic book signed by Erol Otus. It's my favorite ruleset signed by one of my favorite artists. The second (though not as personal to me)...

I was able to regain and expand a lot of my vintage collection in the late 00s via Amazon before everything exploded in price. It's wild how much everything has appreciated in the last 10-15 years.

Hi, all. Once my group finishes Quests from the Infinite Staircase, we're beginning Dungeons of Drakkenheim as a way to try out the '24 rules. I'm hoping to run it as BtB as possible--particularly the exploration rules. For those of you who've played through it (or are playing through it now)...

I've been using it to generate brief room descriptions on the fly and to generate talking points for my characters. It's nice to have some ready-made dogma to quote or an arcane formula to complain about.

I hate to admit it, but yeah. I play almost exclusively online these days, which is harder still for me to resist being restless. I try to remind myself that I get to be a viewer/listener to the story others are telling, but it can be a bit of a grind sometimes.

I see "nostalgia" getting thrown around as a pejorative re: B/X and the like (especially one of my gaming buddies), and it disappoints me in that it's almost preemptively used to shut down discussion. I never played B/X in the day. Rather, I started on BECMI for a few years before a very brief...

Marsh also gets a bit short changed for his contribution to TSR's Marvel Superheroes RPG. Interviews with Jeff Grubb show how instrumental Marsh was in taking Grubb's design, refining it, and presenting it in a really clear way. Indeed, Grubb has credited him as basically a coauthor. The...

Offhand, my tops are probably pretty typical for the milieu: The Shining, Alien, and The Thing. That said, my favorite at the moment might be Us. I know it doesn't get the love Get Out does, and I'm puzzled by that. I find it to be a deeply disturbing movie with its own dream logic. That is, I...

I enjoyed Champions in 2014. I assume I'd enjoy the 2024 version.

I've liked that one in the TSR-era editions where leveling largely requires double the last level's XP. For example, a 4th level Fighter (who needed 8,000 xp to get to 4th) going to 5th level would have to gain 8,000 xp more for 16,000. To get to 6th, he'd need to reach 32,000. This has the...