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Great find @Jadeite The files on the disk have a 2000 date, and the outside of the disc says "Dungeon" and has the WOTC mark on it. + Here is a screen shot of the generator and a map it spit out. Its a little hard to see, but the box can't be opened further, so you need to scroll down to see...

I'll try to get some screen grabs of the interface and a date from the files on the disk... More soon!

Hello all! I am clearing out old CDs and (gasp! floppy disks) from the back of my closet and came across an old WOTC branded CD titled: Dungeon. This is circa Issue 1 of Dungeon Mag, I assume, since it gives you Issue 1 on pdf on the disk. It also includes a fairly simple random dungeon...

I also remember, but can’t find the reference, that the weapon versus armor chart was only used against actual armor, and not monsters. So I assume that meant that only those humans and humanoids who were listed in the MM as actually wearing some type of armor. I also think that in Gary’s...

I don't think that much thought actually went into the table, as Gary himself ignored the weapon v armor chart, psionics, space required for weapons, etc., which he talked about in his ENworld Q&A back in 2003. Here is a very interesting look at that table, tracing it back to Chainmail, and...

One I saw, I think it was a 3e or d20 RPG of ASoIaF or GoT, and it had opposed d20 rolls as its combat mechanism. Attacker d20+combat bonuses; Defender d20 + defensive bonuses. Whoever had the higher total struck the opponent. Also included a DR mechanism rather than "AC", per se. I've found...

Plate armor actually allows for quite a bit of movement and agility. Not anywhere near as much as no armor, though. if I were to allow full Dex in 5e for armor, I’d then remove it from the Init calculation and remove Finesse for medium to heavy armors. I don’t use DR, but allow shields to...

I’ve got the 1e Forgotten Realms Grey Box, and love it. It’s my fave next to the Greyhawk Gold Box. I also have the Kara-Tur Box, and the Ravenloft Realms of Terror Box and the Forbidden Lore Box (tarokka cards and dikesha dice FTW). I wholeheartedly agree with @DarkCrisis that the FR (and...

Two campaigns I’m running concurrently both have parties with mules and carts. One campaign the main character and his two henchmen had one mule. They then overwhelmed some bandits and took their two mules. Now they have three. The other bought a cart and mule at first level, and take it...

Every campaign world made by WOTC might be derived from the First World, or some other random bit of lore that someone thought would be fun or make some money for some splatbook. Every campaign that I run would have zero, zilch, nada, no impact from whatever WOTC says about the First World...

If you want to try CoS, which I could understand might be tough, I’d suggest playing through some of the early modules from the original Ravenloft lineup. Night of the Walking Dead is and can include waves of zombies (that’s where the plot ends up), plus a zombie lord BBEG who is no slouch...

Thanks for the reminder about Dungeon Crawl Classics. I have that, and often mine it for ideas. On the one hand, in one campaign I am running, there is an Assassin character who is looking to collect and potentially use poisons, though I think he has forgotten about it :-) The other is on...

Hello, I was hoping to get some additional brainpower on the issue of Poisons in old school gaming, particularly OSE and B/X style games. The main rules for poisons tended to live in monster stat blocks, with the majority of them being "save or die" mechanics with either a penalty, bonus, or no...

I don't think they have to advertise anything, really. All they have to do is release "NEW" PHB, DMG, and MM, and people will buy it. Its been 10 or so years since 5e came out. Many people, including new players, will happily take a flyer on the new books, just to see what is going on. And...

As a cleric, you select your deity and then worship them, not that that means anything in DnD anymore. As a Warlock, you don’t pick your patron, usually, you either stumble upon them, they find you, or maybe you do get to pick. I see Warlocks as much more random, especially what you might...

You're probably looking then at either "optional" material from the new DMG, much like the optional stuff in the current DMG, or 3PP material. The "more complexity" era of DnD is pretty much gone. 5e was a huge success, and they're not going to mess with the magic sauce of simplicity, since...

But this, and as @Snarf Zagyg points out, we are going to most likely see a continuation with variation of 5e. 5e is the largest RPG in the world, makes the most money, now has a movie coming out, etc., any company that wants to make money will be "5e adjacent". People flocked to Pathfinder...

I voted Moderate, as I know my players see rules as having some 'control' over 'winning' the game. So any game we tried to play would need more than light rules. I also know I like to tweak rules, remove and add things, and having moderate levels would allow me to add and remove things without...

I’ll give my opinions on your questions (for what its worth, every table is different, others would rule differently, etc.): 1. No. I mean, it’s a 10’ pole designed to poke things, open doors from a distance, tap on floors/walls. It wasn’t necessarily designed of materials that would...