Search results

There's always "cure disease" reversed? For me disease has always been a highly campaign specific risk - the few monster in the books sure, but an individual referee may focus on disease as a risk or not depending on the subject of the game. Despite the disease chance table in the AD&D DMG I...

Some of the best writing in the OSR/Post OSR, while also being very classic style dungeons rooted in pre-Tolkien fantasy. Considering the quality Ben L. is someone who should be better known. Also he finds and hires great (often new) artists (mostly - I don't include my contributions there).

You've pointed out one of the big Halfling advantages - the ability to get AC 0vs. bigger humanoids without any bonuses at Level 1 - though I'm not sure being harder to hit in plate armor then a fighter but better at shooting arrows makes a lot of sense here. The AC bonus in general doesn't sit...

People do work hard on them, and yes they deserve respect for that - it's like reviewing, a thankless task, especially in RPGS. I am not scorning the judges others who work on the ENNIES at all. If that's your impression of my comment I apologize to you. Rather, I don't give the awards much...

See how little I know or care about those things? I don't know who won the MTV Choice awards either. Are those still a thing?

You are being far more understanding with these posters then I could bother to be and I salute you for it (as well as your careful documentation of the text in discussion). I've been re-reading this tonight instead of posting...

I don't think these are a bad way to do a humanocentric world - I tend to do similar things with the "elf" class - though I should finish that write up... Paladins The main thing is that I've never really thought the "Dwarf" class was especially distinct from fighter beyond some minutia in...

More Aubrey and Martuin movies... "1805 - Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields."

Lesser known? Pathfinder and CoC pretty much win every year. They don't do much highlighting. I'm not laughing. You weren't just asking questions or poking fun in a friendly way. You clearly wanted to support this work, stop criticism of it, and to shame someone who doesn't think it sounds...

I'm just gonna say I find this hilarious.

That's an awful lot of religious gooblygook for an RPG book that doesn't seem to have any impact on play. Secondly it sounds fundamentally uninteresting - afraid to be interesting even. Sure there's Crystal Dragon Jesus and HIS followers fight with demon god of the abortion ladies ... but do...

Happy Holmes Day!

As per the past 10 years or so my next game will use 1974 OD&D without Greyhawk and with a set of house rules. I don't know that this is even D&D anymore though. Certainly won't be using the rest of the game either (monsters/treasure etc..) just the mechanical framework.

This is a good observation - except I think it undervalues a lot of "what you can do", especially in early editions. When one looks purely at the mechanics of combat (or exploration here - skills being mentioned) one is looking from a contemporary position that focuses on mechanical character...

I find it a bit telling that this thread is most talking about mechanics... specifically combat mechanics and character builds. This strikes me as a very particular framework for looking at older editions of D&D, and one with a very contemporary inflection. The fundamental difference for me...

Holy relics won't fix everything.

Supporting Elon Musk's meme nonsense ... That's not about Gygax. Stop justifying the worst values with appeals to nostalgia. I don't care if someone does it cause they like ugly electric trucks or think Musk is one of the world's best Diablo players. Even three years ago that guy was spouting...

The mid/late 1982 - 1991 angular logo here was introduced at some point in mid-late 1982. It's not on some of the notable module covers and other products (video games, game books, monster cards, modules etc.) published in 1982, but it's on others from later in the year. I'd guess Tomb of the...

I wonder if one of the reasons that the Black Box/1070 is so much less well know these days is that it doesn't scan to PDF well. It's "toyetic" aspect of cards and such seems very cool, but also it's easier to lose bits and piece I suspect. Of course I bet the main reason it's less well known...