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That last was an optional rule in 2E, of course. You don't need to drop treasure for XP to slow down advancement if you just give less treasure, of course. They did not. That's just a false statement. There are a few rare occasions at low levels when it's possible for them to be two levels...

I was really disappointed in Captain America: Brave New World. Some charisma from the leads and some decent action, but damn the writing was bad.

In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85. As Game Wizards and When We Were Wizards clearly document, Gary was still one of the people in charge of TSR, and tacitly or explicitly approving and agreeing...

Yeah, I think Gary was definitely writing from a context with more adversarial/opportunistic players. In retrospect, though, "have an adult conversation about expectations and mutual fun" is better advice for that than "hit them with invisible mummies and bolts from the blue if they get...

Makes sense. As Max and Sacrosanct illustrated, a fair number of DMs ruled more harshly, which strikes me as pretty brutal given how the odds are already against Thieves even just playing strictly by the book, but I figured I'd confirm whether you were among them rather than assuming. I prefer...

Maybe there's an example in a popular module? Or maybe it's just folks extrapolating from Gary's guidance in the 1E DMG to never cut a Thief a break.

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...