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See that's where we might take slightly different paths... I think that it makes no sense to have rounds measured in actual time units at all, but I do want a high level of abstraction in my "rounds" I don't think it needs to be a minute, but I certainly don't think it should be "six seconds"...

I don't disagree with the facts here - it has been my experience as well that fighting or fencing, even when one is young and has trained some is exhausting. For D&D though, I just assume a 1 minute combat round one is not pressing aggressively the whole time, I take it to represent a sort of...

Greyhawk and all the official mechanical changes stemming from it: variable weapon damage, variable HD and polearm smut.

My own experience with LotFP as a system is that much of what people like about it breaks down around 4-5th level. The to hit bonuses, the magic, the thief skills. Many of the earlier adventures are decent and that's where most of the Grimdark rests, but I wouldn't try using it for Barrowmaze...

I suspect that's one of the differences between our views - I see the OSR as something in the past tense. That is it was an art movement, and now we're moved on to the stage of people being inspired by it, responding to it, and even having nostalgia for it ... nostalgia for nostalgia - very...

So I'd suggest that games like Mutant Future, Stars Without Number, and Into the Odd were OSR. The concept that a) departing from a fantasy setting b) departing from D&D mechanics or pre-1982 (choose whichever arbitrary date one likes prior to 3.5E) are both recent attempts eliminate a large...

You are right to note this - I often forget to credit the forum scene, as I was much more involved in the G+ and blog scene. It is of course where the term OSR first appeared, but I also don't really think it's where the OSR expanded and grew as much? My own biases perhaps. I am curious though...

Use whatever. Most OSR and Post OSR systems are very simple compared to even 2nd edition. 2nd edition is quite similar to AD&D 1E once all the cruft has been piled atop it so getting away from that I might try something far simpler? Maybe a B/X clone like OSE or Labyrinth Lord, maybe B/X...

This is a popular argument these days - I think it's the result of a few things, none of them good. First, the OSR as a living scene or movement is done. There is no central place where OSR ideas are discussed and instead a large number of splinter communities have formed. It's like other art...

I don't know about this specific attorney, but you always want to have you fees listed because there's always a chance you can ask for them as part of the judgment. This makes it hard to know what's billed and what's actually been paid.

One assumes this case is being fought with attorneys paid by the hour. Especially now at the appeals stages, that or the attorney involved is doing this pro bono out of an ideological or personal belief in the case.

If nothing else this saga should indicate how miserable, expensive, and drawn out a court case can be if the opposing party is committed ... even if they don't have a strong case (or perhaps any case).

OSE also has a free version - and it's good enough for the first few levels even if you later want to add in more stuff. Heck you can basically run OSE from its online SRD. The thing I'd say though is that all four of these systems are basically the same. They are all Basic/Expert D&D...

Agree completely with the idea that conceptually a good chunk of 70's/80's RPG design, including Tekumel were interesting in setting that had "mythic" undertones. The distinction I'm aiming at is one of formal dungeon design - as in the form of the dungeons these folks were designing. The...

What I'd note here is that the "Mythic Underworld" is more then just a big, singular dungeon (as suggested in OD&D and adopted by most early cultures of play) -- it's a specific sensibility about dungeon design. Philotomy, when he wrote about it is often seen as reaching back to the early hobby...

My own reading of the impact of this style is that A) it represents a break with and adaption of the style of dungeon design suggested in the LBBs. B) The OSR, as it often did, interpreted, perhaps over interpreted, these sparse clues and the claims, memories, fabrications, and desires that...

What am I even supposed to do with this willful seeming misreading? All I can say is ... the worst thing for Gygax's legacy, worse even then his approving remarks about Chivington, are his fanatical devotees. It's like arguing theology when the Jehovah's Witnesses ring your bell - except...

None of us are going to effect Gygax's legacy one bit. That said. His mechanics are not the best, but it was the mis-1970's and they work well enough to make an RPG that is style very very playable if you want run a game about treasure hunting in a fantasy world. Other's contributed, but...

It's a quote from Mark Antony's eulogy in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". I'm am using it here for humorous effect saying I don't particularly care about Gygax's alleged greatness or flaws. My interest is on how his adventures read and play and what we, as adventure designers, can learn from...

I'd add to this that one of the biggest differences between lower courts and appeals is that in the appellate courts these deadlines are enforced with absolute merciless rigor. They don't want you there. Lower courts, maybe not federal ones except BK?, tend to be a bit open to human failings...