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Greenfield NUwomen: Blume's Revenge.

Famed author and RPG designer Mike Stackpole corresponded with Sellers as part of his Pulling research and expose. There are some more interesting details on his classic Pulling Report webpage. https://www.rpgstudies.net/stackpole/pulling_report.html#App1

No doubt. Expanding on the implied setting stuff to make the updated/new content portion of the book into an actual setting guide seems apropos.

They're good. I ran The Jeweler's Sanctum recently and I expect I'll run it again. The next two also look excellent and I've been planning to run them. The fourth is a bit more unusual and expansive and requires more work to flesh out, I think, but it's definitely cool and I could see...

That's... exactly, spot-on, a gnawing fear I had in the back of my mind about NTRPG Con. One of my regrets about never attending was never getting to meet her, but that would have ruined the whole experience for me. Makes me glad I never went. Not really a system until the 80s. The original...

Remember that this is a Holmes thread, and Holmes omits morale rules (despite mentioning morale in the Bless spell description and in the Hobgoblin entry). Apart from that, this is all true, though to some extent it's become OSR dogma and isn't necessarily representative of how people generally...

Got back to the gym last night! Just did three sets of dumbbell flies, three of dumbell inclined curls (plus drop sets), and three of dumbbell skull crushers/pullovers. It was a little challenging to get motivated, but felt good to get done. If my energy levels are good after work today, I...

Started Flint Dille's The Gamesmaster last night, and it's a breezy read so far. Very conversational. Which book is that? I read Foundation recently (the first book) and will probably go on and read the second and third volumes, at least.

I think this was pretty common, yeah, to multiclass if you were going to have a thief character, so you brought other abilities to the table. No, not always. There was no "Find traps" ability in OD&D or Holmes Basic. It wasn't introduced until the 1978 PH. It's a pretty common position in...

Yeah, I think it's mostly three factors: 1) Page count/use at the table. B/X has explanatory material, but it's two pretty lean 64 page volumes packed with content. Mentzer Basic is divided into two books, the first of which devotes a large amount of its page count to the two solo...

Some folks made similar complaints about AD&D when it came out. :) That it was munchkinized and PCs were excessively powerful compared to OD&D. More generous ability score generation! Higher HP! Faster healing! Clerics getting a spell at first level, and pretty much always more than one...

Right. Gary's instructions in the DMG run afoul of the classic "if you have to check BOTH to Find and to Remove a Trap, your odds go from crappy to insanely crappy" issue. But good DMs would make a judgement call and alter the rules to make the game more playable for the Thief. Like we do to...

Well, at first level if a character gets hit at all they've got (in aggregate) about a 50/50 shot of being dead, so in a sense healing magic actually matters less at first level. :LOL: But yeah, IME with OD&D and B/X there are definitely more short jaunts and retreats to town to rest up at 1st...

Turning Undead is still powerful. And at first level Clerics are just as good as Fighters in combat, with the sole exception of having a D6 HD instead of a D8. All weapons do a D6, Clerics have full armor use and shields. They can't use edged weapons, but that only starts to matter once magic...

5 Torches Deep includes this rule, and the players in my three year campaign used it frequently. I agree that it's a nice rule, although I think it's important to balance the costs to make it affordable without letting them have an excessive supply. One advantage of 5TD in this regard, is...

Finished this over lunch today. The copy I have is the 2024 reissue, and am pleased to report that the ten years after 35 page Afterword chapter that's been added is better in this regard. Seems like Ewalt's either gotten over his issues or gotten better at writing so as not to put them on...

Yeah, Climb Walls seems at first glance to be the one thing they're actually competent at, but once you look at the full rules in the DMG this "most abused function" is definitely less reliable. He tells us that the average dungeon wall is climbed at 9' per round, that it doubles your failure...

Can you quote him? We're talking about the same Gary who did voiceover work for D&D Online, right? Beyond that... A) Thieves are simply bad and could use help in TSR editions regardless of any comparison to other versions. If you have a 10% to 50% chance of performing a key character...