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Let's not forget item saving throws! OD&D specifies that carried items are assumed to be fine unless the bearer/user is killed (with helms noted as being an exception, but it's not explained), at which point they have to save. The 1E DMG is vague about when to apply them, seeming to mostly...

I think it's also (and I might have already mentioned this earlier in the thread) that there's a missing context for most of us who learned elsewhere than at Gary's or other original tables, that levels weren't that hard to earn in the first place. If magic items grant XP, and if a...

Typo here- it's "Forever", not "Tomorrow".

I still retain enough ketchup appeal from childhood to enjoy it on my fries, though at home I use it rarely and only keep a small bottle of the no sugar added variety on hand. Mustard is also a nice alternative or complement. Sriracha has also served when I've made a batch of fries at home and...

Sketchy sleep continued over the weekend and sabotaged some energy. Friday evening and Saturday I was a lump despite it being absolutely gorgeous out. Dragged myself to the gym on Sunday morning and did a mix of upper and legs, but a little shorter than usual. Forced myself through morning PT...

Could be worse...

Which is yours?

Call of Cthulhu is definitely the Chaosium game I have the earliest memories of, from Dragon magazine ads in the 80s then getting to play a convention session in 1989 (which I think was at Mountaintop, at Lehigh University). Right now I'm in the middle of The Great Pendragon Campaign and very...

Last night the gym was busy and I was improvising a bit, but got in a few exercises. Inclined barbell shoulder press on a Smith machine for three sets plus a couple of drop sets (adjusting weight too because this isn't a regular one for me), narrow grip lat pulldowns three sets (with a couple...

Woot!

"The" Satanic Panic was a moral panic. One of many, of which some of today's share seeds and common elements of older ones.

Wednesday night I got in and did four sets of overhead shoulder press (machine), and two sets each of dumbbell bench and dumbbell seated inclined curls (the latter with drop sets, as usual). Had to cut it short to make a friend's birthday dinner, but felt good about getting in a bit of work.

I think that's a great idea. There are a number of good options, and at this stage in life you're absolutely going to see a great return on your investment of time and effort in terms of overall health and feeling good if you can make some sort of exercise a consistent habit. Just taking some...

Monday night I did get in. Dumbbell benches were all taken so I grabbed an incline press machine next to an overhead shoulder press machine (the latter was occupied), did three sets of inclined chest press, three sets of machine overhead press, and three sets (plus drop sets) of lat pulldowns...

My experience so far is that it delivers much the same experience as Basic and AD&D back in the day, with fewer house rules or much less fudging needed.

Talking about our gaming experiences gives us the opportunity to sanity check, compare impressions with and get feedback from other gamers. That poster apparently has a lot of negative experiences, so that's a lot of fodder for him to try to problem-solve and compare notes with others...

Perhaps! I had a good experience running a one-shot recently using just the quickstart rules.

Yup. While nowadays I'm more likely to shoehorn a replacement PC in whenever I can and squint past it looking weird, it's pretty darn common in games for the party to be in some isolated locale for a bit where it doesn't make a ton of sense to encounter another likely PC. When my default...

Well, maybe a bit less given that SOME proportion of encounters, at least in written modules, will be hostile by default / hostile given the circumstances of the encounter.