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Further to my last... Analyze the DM, too. If this is just a stupid "gear yourself up to see how well you can allocate cash" exercise, then just buy stuff and steel yourself for a disappointing evening. If, on the other hand, you might be facing something serious, like a cabal of wizards or a...

Hire spies and oracles: find out or at least get clues about what the DM is going to throw at you when you've got that much cash. Make your spending decisions based on reconnaissance, not uneducated expectations. Your own dungeon is more defensible than a castle. If you need a bolthole, dig...

I wouldn't ban anything - the rules are really designed for dungeon adventuring. If the players use rope trick to rememorize and sleep, that's all to the good. THey still have to get their loot to the surface, and that's when wandering monsters have a chance to get them. In a dungeon...

Great article!

One inherent difficulty with polls like this is that they take on a skew. On the Troll Lords site, MHensley (who is a total NON-zealot, btw, completely good guy) has posted an FYI about the existence of this poll http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2518&mforum=trolllordgames)...

I blew out on 3e and wanted to play a simpler game, circa 2004. At the start, I was a big fan of C&C, but ultimately it has turned out not to be what I was looking for. I've ended up playing house-ruled 1e.

Thanks for the kudos, all. :) BTW, if anyone wants a simple, d20 style presentation of the 1e rules, click on OSRIC in my sig. It's a free pdf, easy to learn (or refresh) the nuts and bolts.

It does slow down a game session, and 3e has less extra time to spare given that combats are generally longer to accomodate the use of (and the thinking about) more specific combat options. I think this is exactly why mapping has been abandoned by a lot of 3e DMs, and I'm not sure how exactly...

Essay Time! I'm going to focus here on what "parts" of Old School play can be imported into the 3e rule system, and argue that 1e and 3e have lots of similarities (skipping an aberrational development circa the 2e period). I'll also argue that there's a limit to the 3e DM's ability to create an...

K&KA will probably be up again fairly shortly - it's glitched out a couple of times in the last few days and come back up again within an hour. The OSRIC SRD itself is almost all Product Identity, except the requisite stats, mechanics, etc. that are required to be OGC. What happens then is...

I remembered the name of the third book in that series: it's "Ecce and Old Earth." That and Throy are sequels to Araminta Station, with Araminta Station being the best of the three.

Same, although over the years that has still accounted for a lot of modules.

My two cents on the New Earth, coming from the perspective of the Vance fan. It ain't Vance. It's got vivid writing and an eerily creepy Sword and Sorcery setting. It's not the modern pap. But it lacks the salt-dryness of Vance's wit. I can see why Vance is a good comparison, but it's worth...

I think the word for that is "apophenia." Seeing the Virgin Mary in the french toast, etc.

Heh! Excellent. Pod Caverns is, of course, brilliant. It deserves to be on the shelf of every right-thinking gaming store. :)

The statute of limitations obviously hasn't run, but TX7321 is right; the time to challenge OSRIC is past. There are other constraints than statutes of limitation involved. In essence, you can't just bide your time in a situation that you're later going to claim was damaging to you. You have...

I'll just add a couple of clarifying remarks: 1) the list P&P put in above, which is from a Knights&Knaves thread I'm doing, actually doesn't contain predorders for works that aren't finished (there's only one module I know if in that category) and it doesn't contain the 1e products that aren't...

Play 1e! It captures the 1e feel almost perfectly. Check out OSRIC for bringing that "living game" thing back to 1e.

Yeah, for a 64 page module with shipping included, it's a phenomenal price. :)

The OSRIC crowd is only an "OSRIC crowd" when you're talking about publishing and compatibility and all that jazz. At the gaming table, OSRIC just means 1e rules. So it's safe to say that CZ is the "OSRIC crowd's" single most anticipated product of all time. :D (although the publication...