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at higher levels, no, but at lower levels, you were scraping for every XP you could get, due to the lethality of being a new PC in 1E. In our case, I think it was just a matter of 'we all forgot about it'. 1E had so many odd rules tucked here and there, some were bound to fall between the...

overlooked this one earlier. Ya know, I don't think a single DM who ran our games way back in my Ye Olde 1E Days ever did this. I know I certainly never got these extra XPs, and as anyone who ever played 1E could tell you, they were needed. Not sure just why all the DMs I knew decided this...

yeah, people tend to forget this a lot. Even with my 'looking backwards with rose colored glasses' view of 1E days, I can see the design flaws in 1E. Still, it was the first, it was a new and shiny thing, and it was a hell of a lot of fun....

yeah, I'm sure that's a part of of it. Plus, the whole 'being there from nearly the beginning, when it was all new and shiny' aspect of it as well. At that time, it was one of the best ways around to really use your imagination, the days before computer games etc. considering my less than...

I can remember that first we had the 0-9 twice dice that you had to color one set differently and note that they were the 'higher numbers'... then they had the D20 with the 0-9 twice, but one set had a + next to them to mark the higher numbers... and finally, an actual D20 that was 1-20.... come...

one thing that occurs to me after reading all this... their shenanigans with SPI and GDW were yet more instances of TSR wasting money they couldn't afford. Trying to sell SPI games wasted more. Combined with some other bad money moves, this was something they really should have just left...

heh. That's something newer players today never had to see.... way back in the day, getting polyhedral dice was indeed a hassle, and for a while, none of them had the numbers inked, so you had to do it yourself. I can remember the oohs and aahs the first time someone released dice with the...

Yep. When I was brand new to AD&D and reading through the PHB, that '2d8 at first level' stood out like a beacon. 1E is notorious for how hard it was to make it to higher levels, so anything that helped you survive was a godsend. I know my first AD&D PC was a ranger, and I think the next two...

okay, that's the whole story of which I'd only heard parts of before. Along with killing SPI, the whole fiasco seemed to be yet another drain on TSR's cash... they'd have been better off staying out of the whole thing...

I should point out that I have bare bones knowledge of both 3E and 5E, and can only compare them to 1E/2E, so I'll take your word for it. As I said earlier, no matter what dislike I have for the newer versions, lots of people like them, so AFAIC, WOTC is doing a great job giving people what...

uh... did TSR take an active hand in knocking down SPI? I'd always had the idea that SPI kinda imploded on it's own, and TSR ended up with chunks of it due to various loans and stuff (IIRC, AH ended up with some chunks of SPI too)....

yeah, I can relate to that. I started earlier than that, in 1E days, but I ended up getting 30 articles printed in Dragon, Dungeon, and The General during my writing days. If I had to sum up 'what gaming has done for me', I'd have to say it really gave me a chance to indulge my imagination to...

not sure I'd call myself a grognard. I did start playing 1E way back in 1980.... but.... I fell out of gaming completely around 1990; life and work moved me around too much to stay in a group. I did read the rule books for 3E, really didn't care for that edition, and stopped following the...

well, BR wasn't the only 'bad idea to spend money on' that TSR had... before Williams, they'd done such things as releasing several old SPI games that they'd acquired, and a needlepoint company (I really don't get that one). They apparently overstaffed a few times over the years. Williams...

I'm sure the company benefited from some real financial knowledge/business management at the top... but... didn't she also drive one of the nails into TSR's coffin by demanding that they license Buck Rogers (which then sold miserably, AIUI)?

run in as a player? Easy, B2, 3 times IIRC as a DM... well... I was also a writer for Dungeon, and I playtested some of what I wrote several times, so technically those would be 'the most I ran'.... other than that, I don't think I ever ran an adventure more than once.....

I totally lost track of Drizzt after the Sea of Swords novel... apparently, he's been up to a lot since then....

one of the early Dungeon adventures had an adventure revolving around a game called Spottle (or something like that), a dice based game where the players rolled dice and a toad in the middle of the table would randomly eat some of them. There was a cast of odd characters playing along with the...

lost a fighter to the slavers in A1. Lost a second one there too.

from what I remember way back in those days, our DMs didn't really bother with '% to learn'.... if the PC wanted to add a spell to his book, it just happened. But I do remember that the DMs also didn't generally just let the PC pick new spells, they had to come from scrolls or captured...