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Over 40 years, we started with 1e (brief B/X look-in), but jumped at "advanced", even though we weren't back in 7th grade. As each new edition came out, we jumped onto that one, all the way up until 4e. When 4e hit, our "forever DM" got the books, and we tried it, and bounced off hard. Or at...

I need to break out my abacus. Let's see, 1982 or so, I was 13, 7th grade. I had the Basic Set in a pink box, circa (1980 printing). My friend got the Ad&d Player's Handbook, DMG, and MM, and so we used that. It was, after all, "Advanced", so had to be better, right!?! He was the always DM...

Not really. Scientifically, you can get "representative samples" for surveys or data collection and analysis with far fewer participants. Now, I'm not a scientist, or a pollster, but I'm sure there are those on these boards who could explain it. Basically, the numbers that WOTC pulls for...

Thinking more about it, I think we also at one point interleaved the attacks throughout the round (for 3/2 or 2/1). We did it two different ways: 1) the character with more than 1 attack would attack on Init for their first attack, then all other attacks at the end of the round (after everyone...

I think we did it the wrong way as well, and then did it the ‘right’ way, and then decided to let the fighter or character decide how they wanted to do it - in the first round of combat, do you want to swing twice or once? The following round, you completed the series and that was how you...

I don't interact with any company I buy from, usually. Aside from buying from them. They put out a product, I buy it or I don't. I follow the "community" usually on forums or blogs, or YT occasionally, and that's about it (and that is coming off of about a 30 year run of being in the "Games...

I walked away from a group I had been gaming with for 40+ years, just finally realized I wasn’t enjoying the games and the personalities that came out in the games (and I’m also sure I was a pita sometimes too, but I was trying to pay attention to it). Fortunately two other players followed...

I’ll suggest a couple of options, but I make no guarantees that this will work or that it might not eventually hurt or damage the model. 1) the first thing you could try would be to just use a black wash (many available from multiple paint manufacturers - Games Workshop, Vallejo, Army Painter...

But this, of course, goes both ways. And a lot of this - table style, approach, how disagreements are handled, etc. - should be discussed and agreed before hitting the table at all. I’ve had players do what you’re saying - start off hostile or argumentative, reject what the DM is doing or...

Playing it in a campaign, used the character playbooks and village creation processes/rules, and using the spell system, and have placed it in Greyhawk. We’re having a lot of fun with just exploring around the village and building out the world. Happy to discuss.

Right. But if you don't trust the people you are playing with, and particularly don't trust the DM, why are you playing? At our table, we talk at session 0, during the game, and offline about the rules, expectations, rulings or non-rulings, etc. When I DM, I'll point out things the party...

Well, it’s every weapon, regardless of class, so… They all do damage on a miss, under certain circumstances. But magic and other effects are much more subtle, so you’re not fireballing or having flashy big magic effects either. One could also ask why you need special features and ability...

I played a historical RPG set in post-Roman Britain, which was pretty much a DnD chassis, similar combat, etc. In it, you had your traditional attack roll in combat, which did damage. However, each weapon had its own Shock value, and AC target. You did shock damage on a miss if the if the...

Isn’t the Gelatinous Cube the one that fills the hallway? If it’s in a hallway, it has whatever immunities the stat block indicates, and cannot be lifted, pulled, tripped, grappled, or otherwise fiddled with. I’d imagine it would be immune to poison, stun, and prone at a minimum. if it’s...

In my campaign I‘m using side initiative running OSE using the combat process: spell and retreat declarations - initiative - monster morale - movement - missiles - melee - spells. We find that side initiative allows for coordination of actions by the party (and monsters), and the spell...

You could post it here, or create your own thread in this sub-forum and post it to get some feedback if that's what you're after. Or, post it in my Beyond the Wall and OSE Playbook thread and I'll take a look. When Dolmenwood hit $800k in the first couple of days, and looking at other recent...

No problem. This is modified from the BtW playbooks, but I removed things like skills and spells that are assigned at chargen, because OSE doesn't have skills, and magic works differently. One section does have weapon proficiency because I was using the optional weapon proficiencies rules from...

Here is a separate thread to discuss the playbooks https://www.enworld.org/threads/beyond-the-wall-and-ose-playbooks.699252/ Happy to discuss further and provide other drafts.

So, coming from the Gavin Norman interview thread, we got into talking about OSE as it pertained to Dolmenwood, and I mentioned my blending of OSE and Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures by Flatland Games, while also incorporating Dolmenwood subsystems into my campaign. @schneeland asked if I...

I think all of our campaigns start out aiming for the long run (multiple years). We did one 5e for 2.5 years, when it reached a conclusion. A follow-up campaign ran for over a year, and I ended it (as DM) due to conflict between 5e and the lower magic premise of the setting. B/X was supposed...