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Looks great. Could be up there with 1978.

Here "soft drink" is usually an umbrella term for non-alcoholic beverages in general (alcoholic beverages, of course, are "hard drinks") . For example, the "soft drinks" section of a menu will commonly feature soda, seltzer, juice, and maybe milk, depending on the restaurant and what kind of...

This whole discussion is whetting my interest, actually. While my personal taste MOSTLY runs more to OSR, this seems pretty solid and like it could appeal to my more character- and narrative-focused brother and a couple of our other friends.

It does. And yet (anecdotally) I almost never saw them used. Probably in part because they didn't give rules for recruiting and paying them.

Same on the latter in the NE US. Here "soda" absent other context or verbiage is always a sugar (or sugar substitute) soft drink, but with a cocktail "soda" defaults to soda water, and you specify the mixer if you want a sweet one- vodka and Sprite, rum & Coke, etc. If you just want a...

The PH stuff is pretty similar, but they do seem a bit de-emphasized in the 2E DMG. If you compare 1E pages 28-37 to 2E pages 104-115. 2E talks about them more in context of other NPCs, and removes the mechanics for actually recruiting a henchman, the rules spelling out how much payment is...

Yeah, that's a good one. In practice in my 5TD & B/X mashup I did allow for hitting an ally on a 1, if they were in the line of fire, and impose Disadvantage or occasionally a worse penalty if the shot were really obstructed. Hitting a friendly didn't happen often, but enough to make the Thief...

Same here in New England, although it's common for Coke drinkers to decline a Pepsi and order something else instead.

That makes sense. B/X, 5TD, and TNU have no prohibitions on firing into melee (just situational penalties to hit like cover, if applicable), and those are the systems I've run in recent years. Also a tiny dip of the toe into the GLOG, which as far as I recall also allows shooting into melee.

That was meant to be in there. I just made a quick edit to 5, from "If the attacker moves first, delay their attack by 1 initiative segment per 5’ of movement." to "If either party must move first, delay the attack by 1 initiative segment per 5’ of movement." That covers archers needing to...

Thanks for reading and commenting! With phased actions it can sometimes help to use cards or something on the table in front of the player as a reminder of what action they're taking/phase they're acting in this round. Yeah, in the middle of thinking about this I had a sudden flashback to old...

I remember reading recently about an RPG with fast and slow actions, though I can't recall exactly which one it is. Maybe the "Shadow of the" games (Demon Lord and Weird Wizard)? It sounded like a pretty good system.

Thanks for reminding me of these rules. :) I had read them a while ago but have never tried them out. They look like a very cool and functional system, adding some nice tactical depth and dimension to the minimalist OD&D base. Given the abstracted one minute rounds, do you also abstract...

In my last long term campaign I used d6 side-based initiative, with players acting one at a time in any order they wanted on the PC turn. But on a tie had everyone act in order of descending Dex score, representing a round where confusion and fog of battle disrupted normal coordination. This...

First off, many thanks for these wonderful comments and insights. I've been hoping for more of your perspective and firsthand info in these discussions. :) One question on this bit, though: It's been my understanding (from Slaying the Dragon and indications elsewhere) that the key cause of...

Well, leaving aside for a moment the extent to which the purpose of forums like this is for the enjoyment of nerd musings ( :) ), whether they cast spells in a D&D sense kind of matters, because of the exact points you're making about the more subtle nature of magic in Tolkien. As contrasted...

Between membership being advantageous socially and in dealing with the government at the time, yes, it was extremely commonplace. People who had the moral fortitude to avoid interacting with and supporting the Nazi regime, as Hannah Arendt pointed out in EiJ, had to withdraw socially to a...

I recall reading somewhere that a flavor which is created by combining different elements to invent something new and dissimilar to existing flavors is called a "fantasia". I think pepper sodas and colas both fall under that umbrella category. Though colas are named for the kola nut and once...

MaxPerson wrote that dwarves don't cast spells in Tolkien as we understand spells from D&D, not the way a wizard, cleric or bard does. That they instead create magical objects and items. You contradicted him, and asserted that "dwarves could cast spells". Every reference in that link is to...