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The demihuman level limits are there to enforce AD&D's human-centric genre of sword & sorcery fantasy. AD&D assumes lots of self-interested adventurers running around the fantasy world, the most successful of whom will eventually become the region's local lords, patriarchs, wizards, and other...

I started playing with Classic D&D (which still used the SIWDCΧ order) and AD&D 2e (where the SDCIWΧ order originated), and I always liked the latter better. It made sense to block the stats into three physical and three mental, and I didn't really understand at the outset where the Classic...

Ooh, Hope. That's really good. I like that. I had been thinking either "Valor" or "Freedom", but "Hope" is just as much of an ideal as "Dread" is a… well, whatever the demotivational opposite of an ideal is. Excellent suggestion!

In the new version of the HeroQuest game recently released by Hasbro, "Chaos Warriors" and other similar enemies were renamed "Dread Warriors" and the like, probably to avoid getting entangled with any GW IP. But now I have to ask… let's imagine that one were going to play a full-on RPG set in a...

Ah, the zeal of the converted in combination with the rebellious feeling of countering the mainstream. It makes for a heady brew that compels us to preach the Good Word. The indie RPG movement has its pet issues ("the mainstream is GM authority and combat-focused sim, but distributed authority...

I'm solidly in the "forever!DM and happy about it" camp. I don't really enjoy playing, and the main reason for that is, nobody will ever DM a game the way I'd do it! I'm particular. I like building worlds, I like designing dungeons, I like kitbashing together core rules and house rules, and I...

The 2e barbarian (CBHB) could be LG, LN, TN, NG, or CG. The shaman from the same book had the same alignment restrictions—no Evil or CN allowed. (In 3e, the CD spirit shaman could be of any alignment.) The 2e psionicist (CΨHB) and 2e ninja (CNHB) could not be Chaotic. (In 3e, the psion and the...

The problem with ye auld "why not just play a board-game if you aren't going to get into character?" chestnut is that board games are generally constrained by rigid rules, don't have a human referee, and don't allow for tactical infinity. If you want improv acting, you can do a freeform LARP or...

Well I did say mostly. As in, I don't require/allow most characters to pick an alignment. I see no reason to impose that on players, and most players (even if I clearly explain the Moorcockian/Gygaxian cosmic perspective or the Andersonian faerie-tale perspective to them) still take alignment to...

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Every dictionary I've ever looked at says "ar-TIFF-uh-sir." Same emphasis as "photographer" or "psionicist." Or "altimeter" and "multimeter" (and "kilometer" and "odometer"…).

While I (mostly) don't find alignment useful and therefore didn't vote in the poll, I wouldn't use either of the OP's definitions. They rely too much on character behavior or beliefs. Alignment is cosmic—it's either allegiance to a big, universal "side", or some inherent quality in a being's...

Best avoided altogether when players are at the table together, their characters adventuring in a party. Totally expected when high-level characters attain political power and it's time to break out the Diplomacy and Chanmail sets.

#1 is merfolk. Unusual, mysterious, a variety of folkloric portrayals ranging from dangerous and fey and to playful and benevolent. That they're found in all mythologies worldwide, but they figure with especial prominence in Irish folklore, is particularly appealing to my Irish-American...

I toed that official line to a tee back in the day. Never mixed D&D with AD&D, because the D&D books said not to (and the AD&D books generally never acknowledged D&D's existence—because of course they didn't, TSR was in the business of pushing AD&D, and they only kept D&D in print because they...

OD&D (1974) is the right answer. Because it's always the right answer — except for those times when the right answer is HeroQuest.

And 1 XP was awarded for keeping 1 GP worth of treasure found during the adventure. It's difficult to overstate just how important that is in driving play — with that rule in place, you quite literally never have to "dangle hooks" in front of the players. They'll seek out dungeons on their own...

I've only attended NukeCon once. Ran Palace of the Silver Princess using Holmes Basic + Greyhawk/Blackmoor/EW. The party handled the encounters on the first level fairly well; but up on the second level, they ran afoul of an angry troll (which they tricked into yeeting itself out of the palace...

What it says on the tin. Using whatever criteria you care most about — user-friendliness, aesthetic preference, whatever — how do you prefer your character sheets? The topic presumes the use of a physical character sheet — as in a sheet of paper — that you write on with, like, a pencil. I'm not...

Well I agree with the sentiment at any rate, if not necessarily with any particulars that rely on a dichotomy between RP and mechanics and dice rolls.