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Black Dragon, Goblins, and Red Dragon for me. It all goes back to DMing these monsters in some memorable encounters. I find most of D&Ds monsters interesting, even the common ones.

The RPG industry is more akin to programming than manufacturing. Patches are a thing in any complex software product (games or otherwise). And at hundreds of pages / thousands of lines RPG books are complex products. The easy problems are found in alpha or beta testing, but some always seem to...

Nice to see the site back. This was a good issue. The "new" format didn't bother my crew too much; we played miniatures and board games as well as RPGs. RPGs (D&D and Traveller) did dominate our playing time though. Thanks for another (good) nostalgia fix, it's appreciated.

Yes, it is (mostly) house rules extrapolated from the games rules, because, as you noted, there was very little thought put into it by the game designers. They popped in the standard Elvish tropes without thinking about the effects of it. I like to ponder the effects of accepted "facts" and put...

It depends on whether you thought through the effects of being that long lived. Elves (etc.) as PCs seemed to gain experience at the same rate as humans. As an aside at one point I considered reducing their experience awards, but that would have killed them as PCs (iirc it was an option in 2E...

A fun and funny read :) Sweating out your own PCs survival must have been … interesting.

A fun and funny read :) Sweating out your own PCs survival must have been … interesting.

Maybe, maybe not. Give someone a thousand years to level up. Each loss would be serious for a long lived race like AD&D Elves with low fertility, but for every one you kill, how many human soldiers buy it? I'd call it even at best. Given the long life span there's no reason for them not to...

It could be. Notice that you can't just copy a spell from someone's spell book straight into yours. You have to "personalize" it. In 5E it costs you 2 hours and 50 GP per level of the spell to decipher / translate it and write it into your own book. I guess it could be "bad hand writing" on...

We used chits. Numbers on spare board wargame counters. Place the number range of chits in a container (1-20 etc.), label the container (20, 12, etc.) and draw chits as needed, placing the chit back in the container after it had been read. It worked well enough. Just don't leave any numbers out...

I wasn't quibbling. I was largely agreeing with you about our world. I simply pointed out that it worked that way because of how our world works, which may be different in a fantasy world. We have continued to advance our technology /knowledge. What if you couldn't? It's not a "problem" to have...

Oddly enough my degrees are in history (MA, BA, AA) and cultural anthropology (BA) and I teach history :) There are a variety of reasons for the rate of progress in the periods of time he mentions. And sure extremely important things happened (agriculture is the single most important thing...

Another thing about change in our world... a lot of it is driven by technology and repeatable results in science. What if science doesn't work that way, or even exist as it does irl? What if results are not repeatable? What if no combination of three easily available chemicals gives you...

Agreed. the old PDFs don't have the "pizzaz" of other stretch goals, but they can be useful. I loved their old sourcebooks too. My oldest daughter was a huge Sailor Moon fan and she loved the RPG / sourcebook they put out. I have a number of the other ones myself as well as BESM d20 and Tekumel...

Forgiveness, especially without remorse (apparently) or recompense for those effected is hard to come by. I liked BESM, but I'm not backing it. Qualms about the creator and a distinct lack of extra playing time for another game. Over 800 people have backed it though with about 375% of it's...

People are.... well, people. Nothing, not reason, logic, or even words in the DMG can alter that :)

Thanks for another trip down memory lane M.T.. Love it. It sparks the memory and helps bring back ideas that I haven't thought of for years. I was not a fan of Gardner's Niall (if I recall the name correctly) stories btw... I think Conan pretty much wore out the "barbarian hero" trope. And did...

I don't know anyone from back in the day in my group (1974 and later) who didn't believe that increasing hit points were the result of increasing skill / ability and, in general, immaterial factors (luck, the gods favor, etc.). The alternative would be... weird :D

In my setting the races matter very much. My races differ from the standard D&D races in the role they play in the setting and the relations between the different races (and nationalities for that matter). They have developed over the course of many editions of D&D with my own twists as well. My...

None :) [LEFT][COLOR=#CCCCCC][FONT=Verdana] No. Lightning blood? All my little creatures (PCs included) are made of the five elements (Air, Earth, Fire, Water and Spirit). Energy is Positive or Negative. No cells, molecules, atoms etc. [LEFT][COLOR=#CCCCCC][FONT=Verdana] Nope. No science...