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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...

I'm going to count OSE, The Nightmares Underneath, and Shadowdark as D&D, so the only non-D&D game I've played this year is my increasingly-sporadic Pendragon game, which we've only gotten to play a handful of times this year, in 3-4 hour sessions. So I think I'm only in the 11-20 range this...

A weekly, 3 hour session 5E 2024 game easily takes me over 60, even though we miss an occasional session here and there. I've also played some OSE online and in person on top of that, and a bit of Shadowdark and The Nightmares Underneath.

For clarification, Old School Essentials is a clone of 1981 Basic/Expert D&D, typically referred to in shorthand as B/X. The ones written by Tom Moldvay, David "Zeb" Cook, and Steve Marsh. With the Erol Otus covers. BECMI is the re-launch and expansion of B/X, from 1983-1986, into Basic...