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I saw this happen live and in-person once. Thankfully I was on the other side of the enclosure from the people experiencing it... more viscerally.

I imagine Whizbang would probably have noticed if all the tension had been removed by their modification, so I suggested a possible explanation for why they're apparently not seeing the effect you speculated on.

Probably less so if Whizbang is consistently attacking the light with monsters and environmental hazards.

I favor Ulsio. Nice. Jorune is cool, but definitely has issues. Ben Laurence of Mazirian's Garden and Through Ultan's Door fame teased a really cool-looking OD&D hack version of Jorune on his blog over several articles a few years ago, but I don't know if he ever finished it. Sounded super...

Friday night I did get back for three rounds of machine triceps extensions (with drop sets), three of face pulls (pushing weight up a bit and drop setting the last set), and three of leg extensions (pushing weight up from last time I did them). Sunday was super busy but I snuck in for a quick...

What's your preferred gin for it? For my taste, choice of gin is critical for a martini.

Value is subjective. $1 is too much for me to pay for a product I have zero interest in or use for, unless maybe I can quickly and easily resell it for more. What's objective is that this is priced at the same price point, relative to a contemporaneous PH, as almost every D&D starter/intro box...

Yeah, Travis described it as a big locked closet with tons of shelves.

I did an apples to apples comparison (price and contents) of the onboarding boxed sets for new players available at five points in time (1981, 1983, 1991, 2014, now) vs the PH available at the same time. I get the distinction you're trying to draw, but it seemed like you were making an argument...

You objected to the new boxed starter set costing as much as a PH. I pointed out that a starter set costing as much as a PH and having different and more contents has been the case for as long as boxed starter sets have existed, with the 2014 starter set being exceptionally cheap, and the...

So is group gaming. You can still apply rules to give structure either way. Solitaire, for example, is a game you can lose.

Yup. Though if you're interested in running KotB, all the maps and goodies in the box might tempt you into the purchase.

I think it's important to recognize that "death spiral" mechanics usually don't GUARANTEE death. It's just that, as you've observed, if you start at 50% (for example) and any injury reduces your odds, that TENDS to result in a spiraling effect, where once you start losing the odds of...

No kidding! From Chapter 7, Queer Lodgings: (bold mine)

This conversation reminds me of:

Exactly. It's chock full of other stuff besides the rules. For comparison, the 1983 Mentzer Basic set which also only covered levels 1-3 had an MSRP of $12, which is roughly what the AD&D 1E PH cost at the time. Though of course you'd need the DMG as well to even make characters for 1E...

100%. My right shoulder has been bothering me a bit, but I wasn't an obstruction at the gym last night. Dumbbell benches were all occupied when I got there, so did four sets and a warmup set of machine pec flies, then three sets of inclined dumbbell curls with drop sets and some bonus slow...

Nope. Learned in the 80s, after being interested since she was young. Irish is our family's biggest ancestral cultural connection, but it's diaspora by way of Brooklyn. :) She's taught other stuff since the 60s, though, so once she was sufficiently fluent, teaching for the local Gaelic League...

(I would have to come up with a whole new shtick for an equivalent bit with my mother. Imagine a druid priestess crossed with a paladin, make her a sociology professor, Irish language teacher, and anarcho-syndicalist and you're starting to get a glimpse. Gygax doesn't know from complicated...