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I've run this one three times. Once converted to 5E in an ongoing campaign, twice in B/X with some house rules, one of those a convention game. Lots of fun.

In my experience the early levels of old school games mostly require cautious play, but you can pick your spots to be a little more aggressive. And once you have a 2-3 levels under your belt you're usually not in danger of being dropped by a single round of hits by most opponents, so you can...

Just a note- The comment you're replying to there wasn't directed to you. It was replying to someone else.

On reflection, I had a couple of good butt-kickers in online OD&D and B/X campaigns during the pandemic. An OD&D Fighter and an OSE Advanced Half Elf. It DID help that they had good ability scores, especially high Strength. And I had to modify my play style and be a bit less aggressive with...

Karl Marx tends to randomly set my brain onto this song.

I don't think it's impossible, though. One of my players in my three year campaign, who played the main fighter, is rather like this (though he gets into some intensive RP as well). He definitely got a bit frustrated and complained at times in particularly difficult encounters and/or when the...

That makes sense. In my last campaign, a B/X & 5 Torches Deep mashup, the highest level characters only made it to 8th or 9th over three years, but advancement slowed down a lot after 4th or 5th level. And in the last year or so our schedule got more sporadic, where before it had been pretty...

I loved mine with those little yellow pellets. Damn. Haven't thought about that in years; maybe decades!

How so? I can see how, put next to AD&D xp requirements, WotC editions' comparatively lower ones look designed for shorter games. Generally with the recommended encounters you can run from 1st to max (20th in 3.x or 5E, 30th in 4E) in a year or two of weekly play. But of course in any edition...

We had a similar homebrew item for a dagger throwing Rogue in one of our last high level 3.5E games. Yup. Especially after the annoyance of having to retrieve them in 3rd, or make an expensive custom magic item like that rogue did, when 4E came out and just said all magical thrown weapons...

Edited to fix! I bow to your recollection! I was evidently confusing it with AD&D at that moment.

Yup. With the ropes securing the one the wizard is kneeling on, and based on the coloration I did initially think some kind of bundle, but the random patterning combined with that apparent break in the middle one makes giant eggs look much more likely. Nice adaptation! I have a copy of the...

This is pretty neat, as a condensation of the rules printable on two sides of a sheet of paper, and playable with a d6 and index card character sheets. I had to infer that AN = armor number or the equivalent of AC, and DN = difficulty number rather than DC for Difficulty Classbut that was no...

Good reminder that the dose makes the poison!

Those who say a thing must not be done should please keep their voices down while I'm pitching my project to make a lot of money doing so!

It seems to hold as long as Scribe's using "cannot be done" in the sense of "is impossible" as opposed to "must not", which is how I read him. Clearly people physically CAN dump toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water, though I'd certainly prefer they refrain. :)

I gave LLaMA the benefit of the doubt that it would make fewer or less obvious mistakes than GPT; at least not leave out standard parts of the template.

Ok; "Uncle!" I'm stubborn, but damn.

Always use and provide pregenerated and pre-equipped characters. With rare exceptions, the generation process always takes more time than optimists think. Ideally provide twice as many (or even more*) as the players you expect to have, so everyone has options and if you're playing a...

Yeah, I bet the percentage jumps substantially next year. But it'll be interesting to see either way, as that'll probably be a little more indicative of the adoption rate.