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The only people I would worry about are those at your table. Don't offend their sensabilities and you'll be fine. The more work you do, the more verisimilitude you can bring to the setting. Do the work for that reason.

Would love to see what you come up with.

Nice. I may use this in the campaign I'm designing.

It was definitely BX, I just hadn't heard that term until now. I still have my red box Basic with Erol Otis cover. (I actually worked with Erol on a PC video game back in the 90's. Good guy. Signed all our D&D stuff.)

I like the direction you're going, but not the method. For me, the goal is to model armor damage and degradation of armor over time (if not repaired). With the idea that HP are not meat points, but represent the PC's ability to withstand damage and use their armor to best advantage, it makes...

I never used an actual timer, but I do limit players on how long they take. I don't have a formal time limit, though. If a player is asking questions, fine. If a player is sitting there wondering what to do, I'll ask them what they're considering and maybe provide more specific information to...

I was 10. I was introduced to D&D at a slumber party in 1982. We were too young to pay all that much attention to the rules so for a couple years we played a weird melange of AD&D and BECMI.

Hard for me to say, I am a DM.

I house ruled that inspiration expires at the end of the session. Although my players are pretty quick to use it, regardless

My players are much bigger sticklers for the rules than I am. I'm very lax with encumbrance, but they actually enjoy figuring out just how much of the horde they fought for they can carry: who carries what, who get's the belt of giant strength, how much can they fill a chest and still carry...

I took my group through the original I6 (converted) as part of our campaign before CoS was announced. It was my favorite module back in 1E times and the two grognards in my group had inexplicably never played it back in the day. Strahd definitely toyed with the party (of six) throughout the...

The Warlock in my campaign has seizures, during which he receives visions from the "Old One" vaguely instructing him on what to do. He's playing with the sanity option, so he needs to make a sanity save every time he has one of these visions. The character is a gnome with a backstory of when...

I will usually work with my players before a campaign to create a fairly detailed backstory for their characters. The campaign I create will revolve around those details.

The thread title immediately brought The Immortal Storm to mind. Parts of it take place in modern (1986) New York and Chicago.

It's like looking into a mirror! I do the same. If I'm doing actual prep at that point, it's not going to be one of my better sessions.

As a DM, I might allow this if starting out a high level campaign, but the player would have to give me a story reason that I could get excited about. The other characters of the party should be similarly powerful, so we'd not be starting at the usual 1st or 3rd level. I would recommend that...

In the original it could only be used once per week. When I ran my party through it last summer, the cleric rolled a 1 to determine number of rounds of sunlight. Whoops.

Lot of good advice and comments here. When I run Ravenloft, it's pretty easy to keep Strahd alive. It's all how you play him (remember, he always knows where the PCs are). If I wanted to, I could probably keep that adventure going indefinitely. Obviously, the fun would wear off quickly. I...

I can't really answer. Anything I would put I would just create for myself (or convert from older sources). I want things that I wouldn't think of on my own.

Heh, I now see you were the one who mentioned the min STR for weapons. I agree that approach makes the most sense. I'd forgo adding that level of detail at my table (If it were in the books, I'd use it, but I'd rather spend my prep time doing other things). As a mechanic I think it works well.