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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...

It's like Snarf's mama always told me, "Iron sharpens iron, sonny boy, so stop drinkin' up all my brown liquor and go argue on internet forums sober. If it doesn't turn you into a lawyer it'll at least turn you into a rules lawyer, and either way they'll curse your name."

Your first comment in the thread was a reply to a comment from the beginning of the thread taking the OP at their word before several folks pointed out the physical objects the OP missed, and taking a sarcastic shot at WotC. Your immediate next comment was a similarly antagonistic shot. You...

There is a general social disapprobation associated with behavior like that ENworld sanctions as "threadcrapping". Joining a discussion strictly to naysay is antisocial and brings people down. It also provokes arguments. This particular instance is a little beyond some of the other ones...

The first three pages, prior to your first comment, include several posts of people SHOWING the play guide (rulebook) which the OP claimed not to exist. And multiple people pointing out exactly where the spell save DCs are specified on the character cards. 🤷‍♂️

And it's a great suggestion, too. Laying some groundwork to counter the Forever DM phenomenon is an excellent idea.

Yup. The starter box seems to have been primarily designed to onboard new players, incorporating some design practices from modern board game design and presentation ("read this first" booklets and links to online tutorials are super common nowadays, as are other elements like the individual...

Repeating or credulously amplifying misinformation is definitely not of value. It's certainly possible to make meaningful contributions to a discussion about a book one hasn't read, a movie one hasn't seen, or a game product one hasn't played with or even read, but there are obviously some...