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Again, has anyone said it hasn't been part of the rules at one time or another? If it hasn't been clear, Oofta seems to believe you are vigorously disputing statements he does not think he made. Same as other people have not thought they were framing their positions and preferences as objective...

Transformers first came out right when I was in that awkward phase where I wasn't quite done with action figure-like toys*, but wasn't really buying any and certainly not starting new toy lines. So they were more the toys of friends' younger siblings or eventually the kids I would babysit. That...

That, or Bargle, the franchised identity. Local dungeons can put on their own evil plots, complete with their own Bargle. For a nominal fee, you too can be BozoBargle, and delightterrify young childrenyoung children in your area.

Political marriages (or alliances of any type, really) are large groups of individual parties and interest agreeing to solidify some form of status quo. There are any number of things-people-really-would-have-wanted-instead that are still out there in the form of resentments, backup plans, or...

I just checked all 3 basic sets, there isn't a scaffolding in any of the intro adventures or play samples. Is this something from the 5e "Red Box" starter set? My experience would be with the Mentzer basic box that introduced Bargle. The first D&D I played was a mashup of B, BX, AD&D, and...

I said it elsewhere -- being yo-yoed into and out of a damaging experience should not do more* than staying in it for the six whole seconds of the round. My group has ruled on all ongoing AoEs: Characters are damaged the first time their position and the spell affect area overlap within a...

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I would disagree a bit, here. In OSE (and OSR/TSR-era D&D in general, at least when in dungeon-mode), there are fewer slogs and higher stakes per fight, but there are still 'all over but the shouting (and figuring out the expended resources)' situations. Usually in terms of that last corridor of...

My group ran into this early on and just dealt with it. We decided the RAI logic was fairly clear, and the devs just over-complicated it trying to hunt down loopholes. I think we landed on lasting-AoE damage was supposed to trigger damage to you no more than once per round (counting from end of...

It's still mostly money and things. Honestly, that was probably less unusual back in the day. IIRC Metamorphosis Alpha and some other early games also didn't really advance your character abilities but instead let you find plenty of cool items and upgrades. And, to be fair, early D&D also had a...

Oh yes, I'm not disputing that. I'm theorizing what would have happened if the Supplement 1 had included the spells known mechanic it implemented for magic users for clerics as well. Plenty of digital ink has been spilled about how clerics can cast from the entire cleric spell library; if they...

Joking aside, I remember bitd* buying into the notion that 'AD&D' should stand for the original game and not AD&D 2nd edition as well*. Nowadays that comes off to me like someone who insists on calling penny-farthing/high-wheeler old-timey bicycles 'ordinaries,' no matter how much conversational...

A Gnoll stealth-expert druid/assassin sniper named Grassy Gnoll would be a fun deep cut pun-NPC.

Regarding 6 seconds (in all the contexts) -- I don't know if it was the 120' move per 10 minute adventuring turn, or that speeds/ranges got cut in 3 when moving indoors, or maybe it was the AD&D 2e longwinded justification for why a combat round was a minute long. Either way, somewhere in the...

Regarding Buck Rogers and self-dealing -- I generally agree that there's nothing capital-w "Wrong" with it in a closely-held corporation situation. And yes, she was certainly not the only one to do it*. However, it is significantly risky in that it incentivizes you to see these other things you...

Is Heat Metal still no save? Any standout changes to Counterspell, Force Cage, Simulacrum, or Wish? Does Spike Growth still do damage per 5' square an opponent moves through?

Interesting. For my money, the updated race/class level limits were the most often used content, followed by weapon specialization.

AD&D 2nd Edition is an interesting case. And here, I'm going to focus on the part of 2e that comes before the Player Options era, and also before some of the late 'faux leather splatbook' era (I think everyone agrees that era having some very clear power creep). Now, 2E comes out and...

It is certainly part of the problem that so many save-or-penalty effects are 'lose all of your action(s),' which is uniquely debilitating to boss monsters*. As well, oftentimes the effect still leaves the sufferer vulnerable to attack*, without** ability to then test again or spend resources, or...

I think the notion that having a PC go down is a failure of the team as a whole more than the individual certainly rings true. Perhaps an answer then is to preserve the basic premise, but swap out exhaustion for something else. Perhaps a party where a PC drops to 0 gets a 'Morale' or...