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

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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...

I would say yes, with a larger group where a) you might spread out a little more/split up (but not far) for searching, and b) there are more people to carry treasure in those limited encumbrance slots, absolutely having a second (maybe even third if the group is big enough) torch going is...

But yeah, if you're using individual tokens/a more tactical movement style with squares instead of the more abstracted movement (close, near, etc.) that Shadowdark is primarily designed for, the light thing can definitely be an issue. Exploration/crawling turns in SD, while taken by individual...

There's also the option to play on a VTT using a single token for the entire party instead of individual tokens with characters moving separately and not everyone having light. Make individual movement theater of the mind. I've played online this way in OD&D and in B/X, and I think it's a...

Which one is you/what colors were you wearing?