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50 coins to a pound, right? A Troy ounce of gold is worth about USD $4000 now - about double the long-term rate of roughly $2000-$2500 due to a spike of about 50% recently. 14.58 Troy ounces in a pound. So $58,320 a pound. Divided by 50, 1 GP = USD 1166. In 1834-1933, the USD was on the...

“A change is as good as a rest.” - Fred Thursday, in “Endeavour” I took a break from D&D from 1991-1996. I came back knowing what I wanted (AD&D “1e” in homebrew or Middle Earth or Greyhawk, with friends, playing infrequently in person or mostly on email), and I have never stopped since (now...

Most recently formed party backgrounds. Since it’s over email, there’s a wide variety of actual locations and backgrounds, though I know them all outside the game. - Halfling from a merchant family signed up for an arranged marriage for business alliance reasons and ran away with the dowry...

Did anyone quote Tolstoy yet? “All happy families are the same. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Except usually PC’s with tragic back stories don’t even have a family.

Good one for “Winter Tapestry”. Memorable and I’d like to run it someday. I collected the entire print run of Dungeon (filled in those I missed, as I bought it from FLGS’s and never subscribed) and started writing reviews during the pandemic. I haven’t totaled the cost, but I suspect current...

The Hobby Shop in the Bizarre Mall in Mt. Kisco, NY is where I bought most of my AD&D books. They had Tunnels & Trolls, but I don’t think Basic. I bought my PHB at a toy store in my hometown.

3.5e Core Rules (original round of releases only) Best because it’s in the middle of the editions, the “last best” version of AD&D and the first (if you count 3/3.5 as one thing) of “modern” D&D with AC going up, etc. As DM, I can draw from all of Basic, AD&D, 3e, PF1, and 5e fairly easily...

If folks don’t like the way the poll was organized, you could do you own. Maybe: OD&D (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) Basic (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) AD&D (all variants and editions including OSR & 3rd party) 3e/3.5e (all variants and editions...

What’s the difference between the versions of Basic?

I voted 3.5e and 5e 2024. DM: 3.5e email friends campaign #1 since 1998 DM: 3.5e email friends campaign #2 since 2024 Player: 3.5e Zoom/live family campaign. Niece is DM since 2024 Player: 5e 2024 Discord/Roll 20. DM & 2 players I’ve known over 20 years plus 2 guys who are new to me. I...

I’m thinking it’s one big world, but due to the Twin Cataclysms and very low populations in all the sub settings except the Flannaess, they’re almost entirely out of contact. I like that better than “out if area” adventures being only extraplanar. Much like how on actual Earth, civilizations...

As noone requested, trade and contact among the "domains" of my Greater Greyhawk. Isle of Dread: Merchants from Sasserine have set up a tiny colony, and the Scarlet Brotherhood is in the area. Pirate Isles off the Isle of Dread: Sometimes attack and sometimes mercenaries for the Scarlet...

I was thinking it’s about like the domains in Ravenloft, which are mostly separated though in the same overall setting, if I understand Ravenloft correctly. I’ve read a number of Ravenloft adventures and that seems to be how it works. I played a one-shot in Ravenloft (GenCon Online) and I’m a...

I remember seeing Ghostwalk in the store, but never really thinking about it.

Why Ravenloft? Because it would contain a lot if abandoned little settings - settings of the dead?

Which is a shame. I respected what Nentir Vale/Points of Light was trying to do.

What Jakandor? Or my version of Greyhawk?

Jakandor sounds intriguing to me, but I think it was lost in the pile of late 2e settings. I asked here about it, and some folks said they bought, fewer read it, but all said they never actually played it.

I stand corrected as well. While I still don’t “know” anyone who actually played Basic, I should have been more respectful of the fact that somebody somewhere played it.

Some things for me to check out, thanks Dannyalcatraz. I’ve been sending hints to the existence of lands other than the Flannaess and Hepmonaland in my Greyhawk, so mention of the Southern Cross is intriguing. Sweeping clockwise from Hepmonaland: Isle of Dread Guadalante. Cal/Mex Zorro-like...