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I'm really disappointed about the "time compression." If one is going to make a series with five seasons during the Second Age, that series could easily be broken into two parts covering the following two pivotal periods: The forging of the rings of power, followed by the War of Elves and...

I agree that lumping all pre-5e D&D together is infelicitous (given how radically different the TSR-era games are from the later editions). But your list is far too fine-grained IMO. A sub-forum for "TSR-era D&D" (and associated "OSR clones") would suffice for OD&D, B/X, AD&D, etc. While there...

I've never watched any Critical Role before, so I had no knowledge or expectations about the characters, story, setting, etc. (aside from it being "crude, adult-ish D&D"). The first thee episodes were uneven but each one was better than the previous one. I enjoyed them well enough to keep going...

After a decade away from D&D (and relatively little in the way of other RPG activity during that time, despite frequent visits to gaming shops), 3rd edition lured me back in 2001. But by 2004 I had DM’ed two campaigns with 3rd edition D&D and had come to find it rather tedious. Once the...

I looked back at some older issues of Dragon: Tom Moldvay and Lawrence Schick were the original authors of the "Giants in the Earth: Classic Heroes From Fiction and Literature" column (issues 26-30, then sporadically afterwards). ETA: They clearly drew upon these notes for those articles (for...

I found the write-ups for fictional characters especially interesting (Cugel the Clever, Kane, Conan, and the like).

Many thanks to Rogueattorney for this insightful and informative post! I wouldn't be surprised to learn that WotC's decision to release hardback versions of the core 1e AD&D books (and the collections of S1-4 and A1-4) in 2012, as well as subsequently to make available many long out-of-print...

MERP clearly influenced 3e (the classes with skills system, rolling higher is always better, etc.). The influence of MERP (and RM) should be no surprise, given that Monte Cook had worked previously for ICE. I was a huge MERP (and RM) fan back in the day and I immediately discerned the influence...

I've largely ignored OSE over the past few years as I already have plenty of "clones" (in addition to the originals). But these box sets look awesome! (Just when I'd sworn off kickstarter...)

Why would using A0 feel like "cheating"? Anyhow, if you're using 1e AD&D (or are fine converting to your preferred edition), I don't see what's wrong with using A0. Then, before A1-4 proper, you could run the adventure "Lowdown in Highport" (for levels 3-5) from Dungeon #221. A0 + "Lowdown"...

I predict (hope): 1. Greyhawk 2. Planescape 3. Dark Sun

I'm quite impressed by the good taste of "Enhance Gaming"! Looking forward to the Lyonesse RPG...

I'm looking forward to this. But including scans of *2* printings for *both* modules strikes me as excessive. (I'd prefer a straight-up 5e conversion, with some optional supplementary material, as I already own multiple copies of the originals. Nonetheless, I can understand including *one* scan...

I assume that you mean the one that was at College St. and St.George/Beverley? No, it's been gone for many years, alas.

"Mixed bag" Like: the OGL. It allowed for a number of good games to be produced, including free versions of older versions of D&D (the 'retro-clones' Swords & Wizardry, OSRIC, and Labyrinth Lord). Consequently, the OGL facilitated the 'Old School Renaissance' (viz., a modest upsurge of...

Having DMed many different editions of D&D, I can say that it is much, much, much easier to run OD&D (or its 'retro-clone', Swords & Wizardry) without minis than it is to run 3e or 4e. I ran two 3e campaigns and, except for the most simple combats, I could not run combats without minis and...

Congratulations, Mythmere! Long live the Old School Renaissance! B-)

I'll add my voice to the chorus praising the 1e AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide as one of the greatest FRPG books of all time. As Mythmere mentioned, there are many new things available for AD&D (and AD&D-compatible games, like OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, etc.). It's not a bad time...

It would be an 'ok' idea IMO. :) One advantage of the RC over 1e AD&D is that the RC has no 'hard' level limits for non-human characters. Yes halflings cannot progress beyond level 8, elves beyond level 10, and dwarves beyond level 12. HOWEVER, thanks to 'attack ranks', these 'level limits'...

I'm playing Swords & Wizardry these days (the '0e' D&D retro-clone). I've nothing against 4e, but I can't be bothered to try it because I'm having so much fun with S&W. I'd like to get back to playing Rolemaster Classic as well at some point.