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Interesting side point about the Fransisca. According to some re-enactment sources the Fransisca actually bounces, and bounces quite erratically when thrown. This suggests that they were actually used as a terror weapon rather than being thrown directly at a front line. You would arc it over...

mmmmm poutine... [/homer drool]

Even Chess evolved a whole lot as it traveled across Europe and Asia. Chinese chess is a whole lot different that European chess.

So I'm a teacher. Today I have seen 2 Iron Maiden T-shirts, and a Twisted Sister T-Shirt. Grade 10-12, upper middle class public school.

I once described a bunch of hobgoblin soldiers to my players as carrying "large body shields, kind of like Roman scrotum's" :blush:

Which 'original' red box? The Holmes and even Moldvay B/X's are both complete games, start to finish. I've been playing Moldvay for over a year now, have read the book cover to cover on a few occasions and the only comment that says "go buy something else" is on page 61 where it plugs the...

at this point, you ignore it because it's so far down the line its irrelevant. By the time the PC's hit level 6 or 7 you as the DM should have a pretty good idea of what the players goals are and adjust your long term strategy to compensate. Encourage them to build connections with the 'good...

I think it's really just a different interpretation of Lawful. Think of it as being like a Doctor who speeds to get to an emergency call. At that point in time the emergency call, and the Hippocratic oath that binds the doctor to it are more important than obeying the traffic laws. Each dwarf...

So I just started playing a dwarven fighter/cleric in a 2nd ed campaign so I decided to write up some thoughts on how dwarves might view religion. I wanted to do something to make it distinct from the other D&D deities but keep it well grounded in something that 'works' for D&D. The closest...

My solution was to buy a few big sheets of poster sized graph paper and draw battlemats ahead of time.

I think Grognardia had a good point just the other day when he suggested that a basic set should be a complete game in and of itself, not simply an extended advertisement for the full game. My BX group has pulled almost an entire years worth of adventure material (probably 40 or so sessions)...

I had the same realization. I had given up on 3rd ed probably back in 2006-07 and we switched to Burning Wheel. Then the guy GMing BW moved and we switched to a shortlived 4th ed campaign which never really got off the ground and we realized as a group that 4th ed just didn`t do what we wanted...

Now it just needs NATO unit markers and you could include Board Wargames in the analogy.

so another update to the list. I think we're approaching it's final form. I added shields and adopted a set of house rules mentioned on Dragonsfoot for them.

Oh and to deal with the "Save or X" stuff our GM gave us all "Karma Points" at the beginning of the game. We got 3 at first level and 1 more each time we gained enough experience to go up a level as a Thief. It lets you force a reroll on anything, from a 'to hit' to initiative, to a saving throw.

The short answer is "Why Not?" A longer answer might be because maybe he is, (like he said) trying to get some 4th edition players interested in playing a previous edition of D&D that he is more familiar with and/or prefers? As for actual advice, having gone 'backwards' as a player myself...

Well in 2nd ed at least, Hirelings only gain a share of the group experience award. Its the individual awards that IME make up the bulk of experience earned. I tend not to give hirelings individual awards, and unless a hireling was particularly skilled or a longstanding member of the party...

Yes, this. My Tuesday group is running B/X + with a lot of stuff cherry picked from AD&D and we refer to labyrinth lord and OSIRIC all the time just to preserve our old books. Of course it helps that the 1st ed books were built like tanks. :p

You mean white on woodgrain?

And the compendium of the BCEMI.