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Wyrd Sisters is the one I started with, way back in 1990. A classic.

"10 rooms of identical goblins" isn't a recognizable description of any old module I can think of. I guess it's a hyperbolic description of... maybe B2? The lethality of which if played naively/hack & slash has been widely discussed for years.

Huh. I must have missed where he characterized you at all.

Right with you. And you. :LOL:

💯 I dig how they have the same actor playing Flag Sr. in Superman and Peacemaker S2 and voicing the character in Creature Commandos, though they made him look significantly different in the latter. Frank Grillo looks young enough that I raised an eyebrow a little seeing him in Superman while...

It seems so to me, based on his cameo on Superman.

This made me think of:

Yup. Back in the day the lethal consequences of the mechanics were that you had to do SOMETHING if you didn't want to die all the time. Either you came up with alternative tactics to hack & slash (scout, talk, bribe, use hireling meatshields, etc.), or you changed the mechanics to make the...

Yup. Carl Von Ossietzky called this stuff out beautifully nearly a century ago.

Sorry to hear that none of your DMs knew how to make it work. :/ 1. That perfectly cromulent house rule does fix this issue, though honestly I don't think it's needed. Priests start with two spells and wizards start with three. In general the odds that you never get a spell off are...

Yes, I know all that*. Which is why I wrote "2E" in the comment that you're responding to. And virtually no one played 1E Bards because of their absurd complications. If you wanted to put an RPG reference in a dictionary of idioms they could be the example for "the exception which proves...

2E did have a ton of options up front, but I think the line Hussar's drawing that it mostly didn't have decisions as you leveled up is a legit distinction. No feats. No prestige classes. Dual-classing was incredibly restrictive and difficult; I think I saw it used two or three times in total...

This looks good, yeah. Really liked the first season. And it was fun to see Peacemaker pop up briefly in Superman. It seems like the revamped DCU is also integrating its TV shows better with the movies than the MCU did.

...that's just contradiction!

Lost more than an hour after work Thursday on a tire repair (sharp object in one of the brand new ones I just bought Monday); no go Thursday. DID rally and get in Friday evening for three circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, behind the head skull crushers and seated lateral...

Sorry to hear it. I can attest that it's possible to enjoy the OSR only with wholesome creators, though there is the occasional disappointment of finding out that a cool product is made by a CHUD. "Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd existing are millions...

Right. And in practice, D&D (for the key example) has increased PC durability and sped up healing over time to better emulate action films and other heroic fiction. Other games use different tools, like fame and fortune points, going back to Top Secret.

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I suspect that shock was in fact fear and apprehension that you were about to pronounce the dread name!