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I will do what I've always done in between active games - prepare for the next game and talk about past games.

It hasn't. What has affected my roleplaying games is having moved halfway across the country.

1E and house rules. A LOT of house rules, even after multiple serious attempts to reduce the amount. 1E AD&D is great... for what it is. You don't jump in a Model A and head onto the freeway thinking it'll drive the same as a BMW 535i, a Prius, or Challenger. If you're taking 1E D&D onto...

I opted "heroic", but that could really span from, "hero - like a good teacher or a fireman in real life is a hero" all the way to Hercules and Gilgamesh and demigods. I like SOME sense of grittiness in my heroism so that it's not all just Greek epic. E6 has come to be my ideal where the PC's...

We ignore it studiously. If it has to be mentioned at all then the character is "guarding the horses" outside the dungeon.

Boot Hill because westerns are still a popular genre for TV/movies and they're missing out by not trying to be a player if not the 800# gorilla. Gamma World because I've got a hankering for a really epic post-apoc game with miniatures and terrain and all, but the Fallout rpg may not do the...

When one of the actual players or someone they have close contact with IS ILL, or the local health department says, "We have a local outbreak. Everybody stay home and don't contact others or risk contagion." By ignoring the outrageously overblown fears generated by the media and keeping the...

Also needs to be considered whether the player really wants to have their pc Shanghaied into something the DM cooks up for them personally, or if they’d just as soon remain anonymous orphan farm boy turned hero who’s simply along for the ride. Not all players nor PCs are the same in that...

Creating my first fighter PC for 1E AD&D and rolled 18/00 for strength. In 40 years of playing D&D I've never seen another player repeat that feat. It's really just a 1 in 100 chance for the percentile, though it's also about a 1.5% chance for the 18 on 4d6 before that, but nobody else in any...

Enough for players to feel like their PC's did indeed come from THIS campaign world rather than drop in out of the sky from another parallel dimension, but I've come to believe strongly that character backgrounds are for PLAYER usage, not DM usage. By the time my campaigns are beginning I've...

Well, to be absolutely technical, I didn't play OD&D but the Holmes rules - but that's effectively the same thing, just packaged into a single book with bigger pages. It wouldn't have mattered a whit anyway if it had been 3-booklet OD&D rather than Holmes because we immediately began moving...

Details of this or that scenario that went one way or another aren't important. What is important is that on repeated occasions in multiple campaigns both DM and players were expecting challenge according to what the game rules would have us expect, but in practical play we all found surprising...

At your own risk, but you can always make your own...

From my house rules documentation: Having A Thief In The Party NOTE: Being a thief doesn't give you special rights to steal treasure that would otherwise become group property. In other words, just because your character CAN steal things from treasure chests that he opens while other PC's...

Shoveled a copy to my dropbox. Try this instead: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtgnq1dk0wwb9sc/Mass%20Combat.odt?dl=0 The problem is the original link goes to my ANCIENT earthlink website, which they informed me last year they'll be taking down their old webspace servers entirely this year. I can...

I DIDN'T. Q.E.D.

Mostly thinking of 3E as the d20 SRD was referenced specifically. Right in the back of the first printing PH's was a CD with character creation software. It wasn't awesome software as such things go but it was cool to have that. It morphed into different software, and other people made their...

That is not what I even suggested. If you want to take it that way, go ahead. I just did. The moment they don't have access to the software, yes. As always, mileage varies. I never suggested I speak for everyone. Just relating MY experience. Not YOURS. Not the world at large. Not reciting...

Looking forward to it.

Assuming we're talking about 1st Edition here. The rate of encounters of 1d6 per turn is a rate for use in dungeons, not travelling cross-country. However, even wilderness encounters can be as many as 6 checks per day. What it doesn't explain is the PURPOSE of having random encounters...