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I don't expect it'll replace AD&D or S&W as my go to versions, but I am looking forward to running DCC. I would have bought it for the Old School Art alone, though. Its lavishly illustrated and if you like Peter Mullen, Jeff Easley, Jim Holloway, Erol Otus, Stefan Poag, Russ Nicholson, etc...

I rarely buy splatbooks. I don't really care if WotC makes them, because I just won't use the bloody things. I can make my own splat material, if I want. So can my players, for that matter. Something I find far preferable, to a ton of schlock coming from "official sources." I decide what makes...

I use Saving Throws (sometimes modified by the relevant ability score bonus) and Ability Score checks, the former for tasks that are class related, or in which the pc would reasonably have some level of expertise. For instance, a Player may need to know if his Magic-User Character is familiar...

Dungeonslayers Dungeonslayers Free. Rules lite. Haven't played it yet, but it looks like fun! Mazes & Minotaurs M&M Free. Rules lite. Tons of support. The retro-clones have already been mentioned. Tons and tons of support, both free and for-pay. Warrior, Rogue, Mage Warrior, Rogue & Mage -...

Ok. Trip, Disarm, Shield-Bash, frenzied attack, & defensive fighting are mine. The rest are from one version of the rules or another, though sometimes modified to my specs. I give all my players a copy of this. For any saving throws mentioned below, I use whichever category starts out at 14...

While I largely agree with noisms, I do provide the occasional "reach-around." I use a series of tables, which Al from Beyond the Black Gate wrote up, one for each class, which provide side-quests, interesting events, etc., for specific PC's. Beyond the Black Gate: Random Chart: PC Events

One of the reasons I utilize "bottom up" world design. In the main, I stay just ahead of the players and solicit their input, when possible. So, someone playing a Cleric can make up their own god, if they wish, with associated myth, background material, etc. A player running an elf PC, has the...

Your attempts at marginalization and insult aside, I've seen the "appeasing the grognards" idea, pop up several times of late. A few words, on that subject: 1. It's going to take a lot more than "vancian casting" and the 86ing of "dis associative mechanics" to "appease" the old school crowd...

Not hard at all. It's what I do for 1e and other old school games I run.

I've never ran a published setting, but if I ever do run the Realms, I'll pull my Gray Box, FR1 and City System set off the shelf and use nothing else! I want room to develop '"my" Realms, my campaign. The ton of material and all the "canon" is exactly what turns a lot of people off of the...

I use ability checks, saving throws and the old d6. But, you might check out the free version of LotFP which has a good basic skill system useful for old school games.

I run AD&D, OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord and Swords & Wizardry. Quite happy. :) And frankly, S&W is the "base game" I bash, mash, mangle & maul into the exact kind of D&D I want. Between it, my rpg library, the work of the OSR blogosphere and my own design stuff, I already have the game they're trying...

I'll be kicking in sometime this month. The project passed its 10k goal in less than 48 hours!

The magazine holder idea sounds good. I just rely on knowing "about" where everything's located. But, last night I "lost" my JG Ready Ref Sheets and had to start pulling handfuls of stuff off the shelf, in order to find it. :confused:

I'm very recently divorced. Once I'm ready to start dating again, there's no way I would enter into a relationship with someone who wouldn't accept this aspect of my life. I've been gaming for almost 30 years. This hobby has enriched my life in numerous ways and been a constant source of...

A large part of what the OSR is doing, has been going back to the early versions of the game and developing them, along alternative lines. If you buy into the old saw that "all the OSR does is make clones," then you're ignoring the hundreds of non-ruleset, for pay products, the many, many...

I'm curious... Google the following: Glad's Art of the Adventuring Life The artist post's in various forums and his work is featured in several OSR products. So, what do you think?

This should really be a given, though. I don't boor people with my love of cooking, either. But I'm not going to take off my apron, just because I have to answer the door. Allright, I don't wear an apron when I cook, but you get the idea. ;)

And Conan's sorcerous adversary from The Hour of the Dragon. I think he qualifies as a Lich. :) Gardner Fox's contribution is that he was, AFAIK, the first author to use the term "Lich" for an undead sorceror. Originally, the word just meant "dead person" or "dead body." I think that Fox was...

I've never done the "Gamer Shame" thing. And while I realize that some folks are in delicate and unfair positions, in general, if you go around acting all furtive and ashamed about what you're doing, you can hardly be surprised when others choose to agree with you.