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That's the way I'm leaning, but I don't want to bone them. 😆

Got in last night after work despite the rain and cold. Four sets of Smith inclined barbell bench with drop sets on the latter two, three sets of narrow grip lat pulldowns, drop setting on the latter two, and three sets of machine rear delt flies. I've been thinking that the Smith barbell...

That makes sense with the timeline. Holmes Basic and the original hardcover Monster Manual were both released in 1977, the AD&D 1E PH in 1978, and the DMG in 1979. B/X didn't get released until 1981. Perhaps you were playing with a group which was already playing OD&D using the 1974 rules...

TBF, that's what OSE Advanced already is. It's already a Player's Tome and a Referee's Tome.

Yeah. I never had an issue with dropping the damage bonus in OSEA, because it was so obviously overpowered next to other classes like the Fighter. But I can imagine how NG might want to bring it back, maybe in a reduced-power form (+1 damage per three levels or something, instead of EVERY...

Right. In OD&D Rangers got a bonus against all creatures of the "Giant class (Kobold to Giant)", which meant everything on the wilderness encounter Giants sub-table, between and inclusive of those two entries. That is, Kobolds, Goblins, Orcs, Hobgoblins, Gnolls, Ogres, Trolls, and all Giants...

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Worked a half day on my birthday, then had time for a quick gym session for myself before driving up to VT for the viewing/wake. Just did three circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell skull crushers, with drop sets on 2 and 3 of the bench and curls. Had some trouble...

After running an adventure in which a Wizard had advantage on casting Web, I wasn't entirely happy letting him "waste"/cut off part of the AoE into a wall and thereby avoid all the party easily in a confined area. I haven't come to a resolution I'm entirely happy with.

Nice! Great to hear that Weapons is on there. I missed it in the theater. Big same on why I haven't watched The Brutalist yet. I imagine I'll get around to it eventually. You've sold me on Good Time, Enemy, Y2K, and probably You Hurt My Feelings. I'm not sure it even rated cromulent...

Absolutely! Right back atcha. Thanks for indulging my rambles. I feel like a bit of a filthy casual next to you, Scribe, and TiQuinn. Or maybe like a druid multiclassing to fighter in my 40s. 😅

Definitely. Historically See (FKA Detect) Invisibility also includes stuff that's ethereal or out of phase, so that would totally be a thing. Similar to "the second sight" from folklore. The bit about extra-planar nasties which can't see/take no notice of us unless we see them is also...

Over the weekend I went in twice. Saturday: Three circuits of low incline (as a change of pace) dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell skull crushers, with drop sets. I tried to include seated dumbbell lateral raises as well, but I tweaked my right shoulder somehow on Friday and...

Nice! I got in last night for three sets each (plus warmups) of machine pec flies, machine triceps extensions, and machine biceps curls, only drop-setting the last set of each. I really need to work on my program and get the rest of my body more of the volume that my vanity muscles get, though.

The 1978 PHB had no attack matrices or saving throw tables. Or treasure. The 1981 Expert set also talked about expanding the game somewhat differently in the promised Companion volume than Mentzer eventually actually did. But fair point.

Which edition was that? I remember (and just double-checked) that in 3rd See Invisibility explicitly did let you see ethereal creatures, just as Detect Invisibility did in AD&D.

Is it "BXceptionalism" to note that it's a more compact and limited version than BECMI, which adds all sorts of new stuff on top of the same core chassis? Including weapon mastery and (in the gazetteers and RC) a skill system? Fair enough to note that some of the distinction is historical, B/X...

Seems pretty solid. I'm wrangling over and trying to figure out how to map the OSR explosion onto it. The seminal discussions and ramp-up conform pretty closely to your silver age, but the blogosphere explosion started in 2007-2008. Delta's D&D Hotspot in March 2007, Sham's Grog & Blog Feb...