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You are missing D&D candy. Such a thing did exist; I got a box as a stocking stuffer when I was a child. Had a stat card for a Troglodyte on the back of the box (about the size of a playing card).

Go back over the lines you drew that dried with another wet-erase marker. Then wipe them both off. It'll do the trick, and you'll find it'll erase easier.

Because if they managed to pull in, say 75% of the number of people who have played D&D regularly over the years and then gone away they'll be literally swimming in cash. Nowhere near WORLD OF WARCRAFT levels of money, mind you, but bucketloads. I mean, think about it. S1 TOMB OF HORRORS sold...

It's not written down anywhere, but that's how I handle it and here's why: they're fighting at an ability that shows that their animal cunning and evolution has outstripped their relatively fragile forms (I say relatively since they have on average the same hit points as a full grown orc)...

It is more fun to keep them alive and in agony for a bit before lowering the boom, yes... Don't worry - a few years of DMing will disabuse you of this "sympathy" you claim to have ;) EDIT: I would have the bellows be a cone-like spray, one inch (one actual inch, not ten yards) at the base and...

Let your players surprise you on this one. If you, yourself start trying to think of methodologies to deal with the stirges you might let slip a hint or two in a moment of sympathy for those mail-wearing treasure-grubbers! With that said...running out of where the stirges are and dumping a few...

I think you don't know me well enough to apprehend my understanding of why people play older editions of AD&D. Nothing you said runs contrary to what I've said. In fact it essentially supports exactly what I said, so thanks...

Here's what I think: I think part of what's being done here is an attempt to offer a "third way" to people who want to play older editions of D&D. Now, I'd like to ask that we don't get off on a tangent where someone argues that people who play older editions are financially insignificant, that...

If I may make a suggestion to the OP...? Stirges. Stirges, stirges, stirges, stirges! You get: Lots of 'em (no. appearing: 3-30!), they have low hits (1+1HD) but attack as 4HD monsters. Part of a flock landed on the party's mighty 8th level cleric at Sunday's game and had him down half his...

Some us, of course, have found a third way.

You friggin' liberal mods. I want new registrants shot on sight but NOOOOOOooo you lot are all like "that's murder" and "how can we grow our user base if you do that".

My problem with guns in AD&D is that eventually the players decide they're going to "intuit" ways to make them better. "My character decides encapsulating each powder charge in a brass vial would be better! Then, using a spinning cylinder or sliding box rather than hand-reloading each...

I thought the point was to give honorary/memorial XP to the man, not to people who just posted with him. I mean, I appreciate getting the XP and all but...all I did was write stuff for him with TROLL LORD GAMES and be lucky enough to hang out with him/be a casual acquaintance (as did many...

Tsk tsk! Here and I thought your first post was spot on, lumen. But it seems you're missing a key quote from the DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE, to wit: Never hold to the letter written, never let someone else (you, to me, for example) try and force their interpretation of the rules if it goes...

Local RPG club constantly shows up at a local RPG con and the GMs run games for...their weekly gaming group. No outreach. None. If I were the club president (who is unfortunately also now the RPG director at the con after I quit) I'd tell them to open recruit for God's sake. Quit bringing...

It merits mentioning that the WORLD OF GREYHAWK set released in 1980 was the folio edition. 1983 saw the boxed set. They're two similar but different products. Pursuant to that, Gary's "home" GREYHAWK campaign was markedly different than what was published. His campaign shared people and...

By the by, Bryon, it's OSRIC, not OSIRIC which sounds like OSRIC's Egyptian campaign supplement. ...which would actually be a lot of fun...!

This is an "industry" where "real commercial success" means selling over a thousand copies. I think if OSRIC went from what it is to "people are quitting all forms of D&D and buying or downloading OSRIC to play instead" (and that would be hilarious), then they'd go after it. But who can say...

That is a terrible tragedy. My condolences.

HACKMASTER Basic is a terrible mess. I don't say that as someone who doesn't like HACKMASTER - I don't, but that's beside the point. I approached it as a new RPG, I didn't look on it as "Well this had better be as good as AD&D 'or else'." Rather, I genuinely wanted to like it. When your...