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Sixth grade in 1980. Had purchased the Monster Manual and the Players Handbook for AD&D at a local toy store in the big local shopping mall, along with a copy of the Holmes Basic set. A friend and I tried to figure it out. In seventh grade, within a couple months of starting school, we had a...

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I like the system though it has never been my go-to OSR ruleset. I have like the 2nd printing, the 4th printing, and a later one. Which is the current printing? I ask because they tend to make changes and incorporate errata with each printing, despite only labeling it “printing.” The PHB is the...

I have only gone to GenCon four times in last 15 years, plus a trip to Origins (I otherwise hit smaller or miniatures-related conventions). The first couple times, with my kids in tow, we played rpgs that THEY regularly played—Pathfinder and D&D 5e. When I went alone, I tried to play games I...

Fair point. I don’t know that they will worry too much about that. They can rely on the “new and updated” labeling, the fact that is now the “current” edition, along with a slew of new art and new organization to drive sales. There have been reports of a lot of money being spent on art, plus all...

I haven’t been following the OneD&D progress closely, so forgive my intrusion into this discussion because my ignorance will likely be obvious. Taking a step back from your specific question about races, I think it is inevitable that WOTC will make adding “new stuff” a key feature of OneD&D on...

This is possibly a very uninformed and silly question, but can GenCon better manage the crowds by having a hard cap on attendance, and not let growth continue past a certain point? I hadn’t ever heard whether there is a fixed number of tickets available.

My guess is that some people may also be buying an extra copy or two of the physical book copies, maybe to sell or for a friend who later decides they don’t want it. I know I have bought an extra copy of things here and there because I want a copy for my group, but it turns out no one wants it...

I feel incredibly stupid for having just found this thread, because I bought a physical copy (for a fair but not cheap price) from a Kickstarter backer on a Facebook RPG Auction group, and the PDF-only option from DriveThru is not cheap. I could have checked on this thread and realized I could...

Not exactly on topic, but I have a long-simmering desire to use the Essentials books as the basis for a deeper miniatures skirmish game. I own a TON of miniatures and Dwarven Forge terrain, and one of my gaming groups is far more about minis than straight tabletop rpgs. I never liked 4e as a...

FYI, I think I answered this question one way, briefly, on another forum but I thought of something else, sparked by one of the above posters. My recollection is that one of the first things we universally adopted from Arduin in our D&D games was the alternative hit point system. We also often...