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Despite 6 or more* distinct versions of A/D&D in the TSR era, a huge number of play assumptions were never really spelled out. So naturally any number of groups missed, ignored, glossed over, or explicitly removed one or more of the rules or play patterns supporting or predicated on those...

Honestly, outside of maybe reddit threads, I don't know that I've seen anyone really make that mistake. Anyone who has dipped their head under the hood would have noticed it. My point, in case I was unclear, was that if point value did represented something more valuable to me, I would find...

The Hero System is my penultimate example of math in an TTRPG game that once brought me joy, but now I find "for nothing" (the ultimate example being the GURPS 3e: Vehicles rulebook). When I had much more time and less uses for my mental capacities, I built complex Hero System characters for...

1e is not cash-flush if you used the training for level-up rules (to bring up another rule that annoyed). For the hot minute we used that rule, we stripped everything to the studs and were still lean and hungry. Raise dead (we had to pay for) before name level would readily put us in the spot of...

No small part of the game at the time was about* the minutiae. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's was part of the variety/goals/decision points of gameplay. Sure, if you have a cleric and downtime, having them prepare a 4th level spell as well as the 5th level one is trivial and seems like...

Not the person you are responding to, but the concept is that a player picks favored terrains/favored enemies (most of them at level 1) and then discovers that the campaign includes effectively no deserts or orcs.

Honestly most clerics I've seen played after a couple years into 5e rarely use weapons. Cantrips (or just dodging to maintain concentration while Spirit Guardians/Spiritual Weapon do the damage) work well enough to rarely bother. 2e specialty priests and 3e 'simple weapons' instead of...

I think this is going to be a central area of contention/diverging views. Are 'skills*' inherently thief-like? They certainly were the first class to get anything of that sort. oD&D rangers probably were the second example of the idea -- does that make them thief-like, or good evidence that the...

I always enjoyed the 'both have inky quills' answer, myself. That's right. Now go clean your room. Well, we do share the year with D&D's birth, now don't we?

Going by the oD&D version, the lower surprise threshold was "Because of their ability to track Rangers also are difficult to surprise." I think this is all going to go down to subjective perspective. Especially which version seemed more 'Aragorn-ish.' When I played 1E, it did seem odd for them...

I think there's a pragmatic approach as well. Regardless of either of these positions on when people should qualify their statements, people on this forum do/are express(ing) personal positions without specifically calling it out each time. That's an apparent part of the board culture (honestly...

I believe the "must" refers to the the 'saying correctly' statement, not demands behavior from others. We "MUST" do something TO pronounce 'coup de grâce' correctly. Don't forget Montevideo, which rhymes with, er, "aunt uh video" (using the American pronunciation of 'video').

If you start with sorcerer, which I think was the part that wasn't clear.

I kinda feel they got a bum rap. The Hanna-Barbera cartoon was aimed towards a younger subset of gradeschoolers, and I think that was a strategic mistake, however the toys themselves I don't think were specifically worse. Yes, some of them seemed a little cheaper, sillier, or ridiculous. Their...

AD&D initiative works fine, if needlessly fiddly*. It's mostly 1d6 to go first, with a bunch of exceptions. If it had been explained completely, clearly, and concisely in a single section of text with some useful examples, it would... still have been ignored for houserules or BX/BECMI ports by...

Again, has anyone said it hasn't been part of the rules at one time or another? If it hasn't been clear, Oofta seems to believe you are vigorously disputing statements he does not think he made. Same as other people have not thought they were framing their positions and preferences as objective...

Transformers first came out right when I was in that awkward phase where I wasn't quite done with action figure-like toys*, but wasn't really buying any and certainly not starting new toy lines. So they were more the toys of friends' younger siblings or eventually the kids I would babysit. That...

That, or Bargle, the franchised identity. Local dungeons can put on their own evil plots, complete with their own Bargle. For a nominal fee, you too can be BozoBargle, and delightterrify young childrenyoung children in your area.

Political marriages (or alliances of any type, really) are large groups of individual parties and interest agreeing to solidify some form of status quo. There are any number of things-people-really-would-have-wanted-instead that are still out there in the form of resentments, backup plans, or...

I just checked all 3 basic sets, there isn't a scaffolding in any of the intro adventures or play samples. Is this something from the 5e "Red Box" starter set? My experience would be with the Mentzer basic box that introduced Bargle. The first D&D I played was a mashup of B, BX, AD&D, and...