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By the definition of wargames first then to OD&D, I guess I'm a grognard. I emphasise wargames first because I think it formed a certain view of games different than introduction to games first via RPG then to wargames. I know that sounds really closed-minded (so extra grognard points?) but by...

With you on the downside of running the NPCs as a DM. The suggestion to use NPCs to fill the gap is a good one, but if the players object to running 2 PCs each they may also objest to having to handle the NPC. In a sense, if the players run the NPC then are they not just running a "waeker" PC...

Never gone and probably never will.

A topic close to my heart. I'm also of the view that competition of the fitest favors a single or few sapient species. The intelligence of the various australopithecus species may be in doubt, but that of neaderthals is not, clear tool users which we coexisted with for some time. They lost...

I also don't recall having acess to a photocopier back then. Did they even exist? I think they must have, but I still remember classrooms using mimeographs. I must say the awful cutting happened after I started lugging around a whole stack of magazines. I tried the typing it up route for...

Zoink! Very unacceptable, then I was just about to come to the players defense, sort of. On this I might let a player fast-forward through this if it is truly a mundane thing, i.e., gem shops exist for such things and it is done all teh time no questions asked, but with the following. You...

Started with issue #14 myself, remember #16 well, and still have the Tesseract article from #17. Don't ask me why, but at some point I thought it was a great idea to cut out my favorite articles and put them in a 3-ring binder.

Always done it for the last 28 years as a player and in the games I've run and the one I'm running now. Typically 2 for each player, last game 3 for each player but they helped me by running the NPCs. I had a horde of goblins and hobgoblins with reinforcements coming in at various times to...

This may sound odd, but how old is this guy? And exactly how did he leave the room?It's one thing to pout/storm out and another to reasonably say "hey guys I'm not interested in this character go ahead without me." The former behavior was not uncommon when I was in high school, and the whole...

Not you BD. Anyway, you have employees? :) This is not directed at you personally, but I'm not really concerned with criticisms of the game, not matter how pointed or how much I personally may disagree with it. It's a game not a person to me and I don't believe that games have anything...

Certainly, but based not so much on there opinion (do they like or dislike X) but how they treat those who disagree with them and how they treat their employees and customers. Egotistical bombast, not crediting former employees and disrespect for customers are unacceptable to me. Such authors...

I'd like to vote but really seems to be no middle ground. The options seem to be joe farmer with 11's across the board versus proto-demigods. Might honestly say have not played either extreme in all my time gaming. The middle ground I think of are characters from upper-lower class...

Check this site out: http://www.jgimmigration.com/tft/index.htm It may explain how things work.

I remember it well. A truly fantastic place to start looking into this game is here: http://www.jgimmigration.com/tft/index.htm Can a game provide an increased degree of versimilitude and simpler mechanics? Yes, I think The Fantasy Trip (TFT) does.

Check out what U.S. Navy Seals go through in training, or probably any other elite military force. You'd be surprised how little sleep those in superb shape need and still function in combat. Of course maybe D&D has a version of "go pills" :)

Pretty much the same here, unless a small and common item your character inherently carries, for example mundane spell components, flint & steel, etc., if not on your sheet you don't have it. I'm pretty picky on how much rope you have. Most of my experience is with nylon climbing rope and a...

No player protection. But getting raised is not much of a problem if you can get the body back, have the gold and are in good standing with the temple you go to. IMC no story or plot to protect, actually the story is what happens when the players try to fulfill their plans, not mine, and by...

xp or exp, I thought EP was energy points? And you better have enough of them mister to power that spinal mount. ;)

Well, we usually just extinguish the player's torch when they die and ask them to leave the building; but to each their own drama queen gesture. ;)