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My settings' cosmology is analogous to a layered onion, with the "centermost" plane of existence being a static realm of pure Law, and the outermost void a churning sea of Chaotic everything-and-nothing-all-at-once. The planar "layers," from innermost to outermost, are: The Empyrean Center of...

Nah. RPGs don't advance cumulatively: they aren't a technology, and you'd be hard-pressed to liken their design to a science. Their changes over time are more like fashion trends—evolution, but not necessarily advancement.

RPGs ain't technology, pal, and classic D&D is certainly no Pinto! ;)

I've made no bones about the fact that red box D&D ("BECMI") is my edition of choice. I keep the Rules Cyclopedia and Creature Catalog on the table as my primary rules references when I run a game. I'm refereeing a campaign currently that's still in the early stages (roughly a dozen sessions in...

Yes, the total count includes NPCs. Unusual for a session, I had five of my regular players cancel shortly before game-time, so there were only two players present that day. Which meant that two player characters (a 2nd level fighter and a 1st level hobbit) were leading the expedition. They had...

Well it's really no mystery. There were nineteen party members exploring the ground floor of a Chaotic Evil temple — dungeon level A1, the Palatial Fortress of the Church of Bitter Doom — and only two of them died. (Given this party's track-record, that's actually pretty stellar.) Poor Tommy...

17/19ths of the party survived!

I'm willing to help with whatever it is that you're asking for. Maybe you'd like to restate and clarify what exactly that is?

I don't believe there was any "splitting" going on. It's a mistake to even think of it that way. When D&D was first published, there were three classes — fighting man, magic-user, and cleric — and the game needed three separate "stats" to serve as the prime requisites for those classes, to tell...

For Victorian steampunk or gaslamp fantasy, I literally wrote the book and called it Engines & Empires. :D There's also Offices & Bosses for any Hello from the Magic Tavern fans out there.

Gygax didn't create the ranger class.

Acererak is a demi-lich, so I think the math works out to just one keet. :unsure:

I'm sure they could have gotten Maurice LaMarche if they'd wanted to voice Egon. (I'm not saying it would've been a good idea, but it certainly would've been S-tier fanservice on par with the Bill Murray → Peter Venkman → Lorenzo Music → Garfield the Cat → Bill Murray loop.)

3d6 in order for me. Simple; pure; nips stat bloat and power-gaming in the bud.

The d12 is the heavenly die, the one whose shape is classically associated with the fifth element. (d4 = fire, d6 = earth, d8 = air, d20 = water, d12 = ether/quintessence)

Egads. I could not take Stranger Things seriously from the moment these 80s kids opened up their AD&D 1st Edition manuals and started rattling off lore about the "Feywild" and the "Shadowfell."

I'm running my "Shade Isle" Campaign, where the player characters are exiles abandoned on an island poenal colony by a tyrannical police-state with a horrific ulterior motive for disposing of its criminals and malcontents in such a fashion. I don't need to prep a lot of content week to week...

I can't imagine why the OP would care about that, given that this whole thread is about one table's search for an appropriate house-rule.

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