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I'm reading some of the other threads, but they are overwhelming and repetitive. Snarf threads are more fun.

Editions I don't like. Everyone agrees, those are the worst.

I assume the pig nose 🐽 orcs had skin colors like pigs 🐖 , who vary a bit but are mostly pinkish pale, AKA white among humans. And green orcs are green, no? Good question. Internet discussion of a fantasy game seems prone to nonsensical battles that make faculty arguments seem tame. I admire...

I spoke a lot with Col_Playdoh here, but never met him in person. At one point, he was posting more to me than anyone else - I looked it up. He was, in my impression, a very nice, opinionated, and irascible person. Significant events my recollection, all here if people want to check the...

Hoorah! New Snarf, everyone! Now, to read it …

Real economics in D&D - I love it.

The 1 sp per day standard for unskilled labor. Which means 1 sp in D&D = $1 in the Old West, which of course was a silver coin. I’ve been using that method since the 1990’s when I was running Boot Hill and AD&D. I don’t remember the source. Perhaps the original DMG.

Me too. And I think the standard D&D economics are a good starting point.

I was very disappointed by 2e.

What are they trading? It has be something missing but wanted somewhere, and available cheaper somewhere. I said that obvious point because I have seen D&D settings where X place is exporting silver, Y place is exporting gold, and Z place silver again. Which is like saying, “China sends...

1e was very different from 2e.

I was there, man. A key point is concerns with “balance” between player characters wasn’t a thing in AD&D. If Stephen Colbert’s character in your party got the laser rifle, great - less chance of TPK. And it would run out of charges - because logistics from wargaming were still part of the...

I’ll give away my foolproof plan for free: claim Ravenloft under the Guano Islands Act. Nobody lives in Ravenloft, no country claims ownership of Ravenloft, and the fiction includes bats, so there should be guano. Can’t miss, right?

Oooh, Keynes! Snarf is so smart, he knows a quote I know. And anybody who knows a quote I know … ipso facto must be a genius, like me. :p

Not that is what we’re talking about (I think?) but short history on this: The Nazis sneak attacked Norway in 1940. The Royal family fled to the UK, and via Sweden to the US. (There’s a PBS series about this and the Crown Princess’s friendship with FDR called “Atlantic Crossing”.) The...

The SB are, perhaps, genocidal. Certainly evil and racist. But, that’s one Suel country … all Suel are the same is an assumption I don’t see in Greyhawk. Nor for the other ethnicities.

If it’s like video games, the usage falls a ton after the first year, but the tail goes on for years. An actor I know still gets (a little) money from streaming from 1 episode she was in like a decade ago on a long gone show. But residuals mean people are watching, so you’d think the streamer...

I’m not a Norwegian citizen, but I lived in Norway as an infant and have been back as a grown up, my 23&Me says what I’m part Norwegian, I have been to a 15th of May parade (once), my sister last stayed with our family friends in Oslo last year, and, most credibly for my claim to being a bit...

For the 2022 series, off the top of my head, the core party, as of their entry to the series, might be: Willow - 4th level Halfling Warlock (not many spells, raw magic power) Elora Danon - 1st level Aasimar Warlock/1st level Expert (Cook) Princess Kit - 1st level Human Fighter Jade - 3rd...

Apparently the Willow Game is a board game. The Willow Sourcebook has “RPG” stats, but not officially for D&D or AD&D 1e or 2e. As it says, there were “a lot” of RPG’s in 1989. However, they are AD&D with the serial numbers only slightly rubbed down - Str, Int, Wis, Dex, Con, Chr, classes...