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Ernie sneered at people having non-binary identities or wanting specific pronouns used, and at them objecting to the game enforcing binary (and misogynistic) rules. And significantly, when pressed on it he and his friends have doubled down and refused to decry those statements. I'm not going to...

What purpose did the grease serve in the chokepoint? That is, if you just had the cleric standing around with spiritual guardians, and the barbarian blocking the way past, would the fight have been different? Other than possibly causing some werewolves to lose their attack on the first turn on...

"Plodder" is kind of an understatement isn't it? I mean, they need to have a move of less than 20' and a STR of less than 11 - otherwise they can just make a long jump over the patch of grease. Really low-STR, extra slow moving targets are kind of a narrow set of enemies. (RAW if you use the...

I think that would actually work as a business plan. It's wouldn't result in a billion-dollar business like 5e, but could definitely have helped some games move some more products while TSR(3) takes their cut for name recognition. That's part of what is so bizarre to me about the trash fire -...

He didn't offer anything remotely like a sincere apology, just a generic "I apologize to any and all communities, I didn't intent to offend anyone" - he doesn't even repudiate the transphobic statement that he made. A real apology would require that he acknowledge that what he said was wrong...

This is all very overblown - it's technically an AOE debuff, but the area is only a 2x2 block of squares, and the debuff is either a loss of movement speed or one round of being prone. At higher levels the spell slot cost is minor, but the action cost of a high level spellcaster using a round to...

That's a bit unfair - they did slap their logo on some cheap dice and ramp up the price, so they do have 'a product' :p

If you want to buy or play games from companies that don't respect genderqueer and trans people (or other marginalized groups) and who's top brass not only thinks something between 'they don't deserve to be represented in games' and 'they don't deserve human rights' about them but goes out of...

That's why I'm keeping up with the Saga of New TSR - there are so many ways combining the name Gygax with the company name TSR could have turned into a license to print decent money, and they mostly involve 'don't screw up badly' and 'get some decent (not even great) product under the name'...

As far as the original question goes, I tend towards the latest system for games that I'm playing or running, but I don't feel any compulsion to do so. If it's an edition that you can just drop in without significantly changing the PCs and use existing modules and self-constructed adventures...

That makes sense as the MM would work even as a standalone product for OD&D. One thing I definitely remember is that the DMG was significantly delayed, and there was several articles by Gygax in Dragon magazine explaining/apologizing for it, plus of course letters complaining about it.

I and a lot of people that I know used a hybrid of 1e, 2e, house rules, and supplements. My experience was that a lot of people didn't see an "edition" as something that mattered, and never played 1e strictly by the actual rules in the first place. Attitudes like "oh, you're using THAC0 for a 1e...

If someone apologizes only because the apology benefits them, then it is clearly not a legitimate apology and should not be accepted at all. A genuine apology is one where the person realized they did wrong, not one where they think "I" will owe them money or time if they make it. I'm also not...

What I find most amazing is just how much incompetence is on display here... If Ernie just wanted to make a new TSR to make some money, it wouldn't really be that hard. He already had a Giantlands game and some artists and designers happy to work with him, and one could get a lot of mileage from...

I've seen a few modules where I'm not sure that the writer even knows what the clues are, what they mean, or even how important plot elements work!

Having a lot of quests is not having a static main quest plus side quests that you go on specifically to level up. How many times does the phrase "side quest" appear in the book? "Go on a side quest to level up for the main quest" structures are a Peru specific thing.

I think a big contributor is that the standard D&D religions weren't well thought out, and are just sort of a mix of Christian ideas with polytheistic pantheons, then aren't integrated into the game world much. I think if the baseline for the game was either "Christianity with the serial numbers...

CRPG designers came up with it while working with a different medium, or mage took it from some fringe group of tabletop players. "Do some side quests to level up" is not a phrase I've ever seen published in older paper RPGs (including modules and including Dragon magazine for D&D). The whole...

It's interesting how many people want to model their TTRPG games after CRPGs. The idea that a "sandbox" game is a bunch of adventure leads that just sit around until the players pursue them, and that "leave the area and do some side quests" is not only possible but something that the PCs would...

Overthrowing the Emperor is betraying him, and Vader was shown planning to do so in the second movie. Since I don't even see what your examples are supposed to show, I'm dropping this line of conversation unless you explain how it's even related to the disucssion.