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How about Mekton? Or Teenagers From Outer Space? Human, Satyr, Centaur and Harpy, IIRC. A Pauli Kidd design with Donna Barr art, to my recollection. Pretty sure the rules included card-based systems for dueling, for magic, and for social repartee.

Maybe I'm misremembering Maliszewski's take (here?), but I know some versions of that argument (like Delta's) absolutely don't focus only on the historical pulps. Dan does suggest that it's a problem if/that D&D has become too self-referential, but argues that it should include more references...

I was going to say, "or a DM who had been running OD&D already for years", which is basically what the 1E books are written assuming. Yes, you've hit on it. It was a huge thing in wargames. The hobby wargame community (especially miniatures gamers, somewhat less so board-wargamers who could...

If you didn't want to do the math of converting to percentages and reconciling all those, you might be fortunate enough to get a copy of Dragon issue #133, in which Leigh Krehmeyer did that work for us. Sadly, that didn't come out until the year before 2E did, so DMs before that were left to...

Thankfully you can still make a killer Mai Tai with other good dark Jamaican rums. But yeah, it'd be cool if it were still possible to taste the original recipe.

QFT.

Yeah, it's more challenging in recent years. Around here supply has kept up with my (reduced) demand, at least since I'm not making as many cocktails recently.

Naked and Famous has been one of my favorites the last few years. I'm near the end of my bottle of Maraschino;I should refresh and try out the Division Bell. :)

Finally finished Bowling Alone, and had our second book club meeting on it yesterday. Overall it's very good, though the original final chapter of proposed agenda items and suggestions for a renewal of social capital and civic participation "by 2010 let us" now evokes a mix of laughter and...

It it from a Cugel story, or elsewhere?

That last bit reads like Vance, and I am here for it.

Note that we (and Jon) didn't find out about how much and how directly Chainmail borrowed from an amateur Middle Earth wargame until four years after Playing at the World was released. Gary's story was that he borrowed from Tolkien due to popular appeal, but that hasn't entirely been supported...

To my recollection the regular-sized (not special large ones) Heroclix bases are about an inch and a half across, which means the figures for what would be medium-sized creatures are not suited for use with the usual 5' = 1" gridded map. They just won't fit, unless you re-base. For larger...

Got in for a moderate upper body session last night. Benches were all busy so I did machine work. Four sets of overhead press, four of bicep curls with drop sets, and four of tricep extensions with drop sets. Thought about adding a pulling exercise or two but I got a late start. Hopefully...

I've run this one three times. Once converted to 5E in an ongoing campaign, twice in B/X with some house rules, one of those a convention game. Lots of fun.

In my experience the early levels of old school games mostly require cautious play, but you can pick your spots to be a little more aggressive. And once you have a 2-3 levels under your belt you're usually not in danger of being dropped by a single round of hits by most opponents, so you can...

Just a note- The comment you're replying to there wasn't directed to you. It was replying to someone else.

On reflection, I had a couple of good butt-kickers in online OD&D and B/X campaigns during the pandemic. An OD&D Fighter and an OSE Advanced Half Elf. It DID help that they had good ability scores, especially high Strength. And I had to modify my play style and be a bit less aggressive with...