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I've been seeing a core idea expressed here on the internet at least as far back as when 3E came out and it barely makes any sense to me at all. IME "simulationism" was much more then norm in the earlier editions. The idea that people intentionally made 1E vague I think it overstating the...

The difference in XP, hopefully, is proportional to the difference in difficulty (at least in theory). And turning a 1st level encounter into a second level encounter means adding 125 xp worth of monster. I don't think that players who kick down a door and see 6 orcs instead of 5 are going to...

(Everything IMO): No, not more skill, just different skills. A good scripted adventure that is complicated is not trivial to "pull off" either. The answer to this question is also a matter of player expectations. The first adventures I ran as a 10-year-old were essentially sandbox games (as...

Actually, it's not all that funny so I'll assume you're being sarcastic. You don't leave me much of a choice other than to respond simply to what I think is going on here which is that you say you understand 1e hitpoints simply because you stopped thinking about them 15 years ago. And now that...

I don't see the problem, but I suspect the problem you're having is not with roleplaying but with player TPKs. Frankly, I don't see the difference between players suffering a TPK because one of them did something foolish (like attacking a monster that he shouldn't have, or whatever) and one of...

I did? No, I think it's not as clear, but as I meant to say before, I think a person can rationalize anything after 20 years of getting used to it so maybe 4E needs that kind of thought. The hits didn't track 1-1 in the case of lycanthropy IIRC. Also, a cut on your arm never affected your...

So a character with 50 hitpoints and 10 healing surges gets hit by a sword for 4 points of damage. So what if I say "you have a cut on your arm now." Who cares? He uses a healing surge and gets all of his hitpoints back, the cut is still there. I don't know how a cut on his arm would affect...

The stuff written in the 1E DMG is not necessarily representative of how people played the game. I think the rules were much less uniform then, and reading about a rule doesn't always mean that's what people were using. For one thing, IMO you can't underestimate the effect that the Basic DnD...

So I'm going to make up a princess character. And my princess is going to completely specialize in courtly intrigue. She's going to sit around with her friends and laugh at the other courtier's sub-optimal builds. Every element of fashion, etiquette, and social grace will be mastered at the...

Virtually anything he does. Quite simply, party+paladin is more powerful than just the party under most any circumstances - even if he were just a minion! (Ok, maybe not with cleave.) It's only scenarios where the utmost stealth is required that the paladin would be a liability, but then so...

You're not "short changing" the paladin if his player is the one who has decided that not sneaking around and bluff in full plate armor is an advantage. That's a tactical decision on his part and is somewhat akin, IMO, to a scenario that calls for ranged attacks when one or more of the...

So the answer to the question "why does it work this way in the game world" is "I don't know." I would think that would pretty much end the questions. Talking about the game table is an answer to another question AFAICT. Now on the internet I wouldn't be surprised to find the asker going to...

Some people think the earth is flat, and some people conflate their opinions with facts. There's no objective basis for discussing whether or not a shot clock is "right" or "wrong" completely absent of context (which is appears is the case here).

Do I have to post a Youtube video with me asking "but why" and rolling a d20 simultaneously? It's not like I'm talented enough to join the circus or anything - I just don't think that asking "why" is a barrier to playing the game. I personally think that most of the "don't think about it"...

But the perspective of the OP seems to me to be entirely based on the "anti-1E" (or whatever you want to call it) side of the edition war. If you say something is a bad game element, and then base that opinion on what the prevailing design philosophy is for the current edition, then I think...

Magical mojo used to be represented by the enhancment bonus AFAIK. That makes it somewhat odd to me - if there's something inherently magically enhanced about godplate, then why isn't the AC bonus just part of the enhancement bonus? Just say "godplate is platearmor +10 to +12" (or whatever)...

Now I'm not sure I get it. Why would they enforce a minimum enhancement bonus? If fey leather armor is made out of some great material, how is that different than a suit of plate armor? Why can one be +1 and the other one isn't? Are they suggesting that before the enchantment process that...

(I just lost my post so at the risk of repeating if it turns up later...) NPCs who were willing to surrender in the first place should probably not be running their mouths to strangers with swords when no one is around who can hear them scream. Consider that the villain is probably used to he...

I put the minion thing in the same category as telling the PCs how many hitpoints a monster has. I might make vague references to the level of toughness but I see no reason to communicate the metagame specifics in this case.

Yes, your interpretation of the RAW sounds right to me. But otherwise, no, I'm not such a big fan of these mechanics. Stepping on a concealed pit is a reflex attack - but being pushed onto one is a saving throw? Saving throws are generic coin flips - good for durations but I don't see the...