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Glad to see another person running 3x like me. It’s sort of the opposite of me on levels though. I’ve never played or DM’d for a PC above 14th level, but you start at 15th.

This is what is best in D&D. Searching your character sheet and deciding maybe you can distract the monster with iron rations. Trying to jump on the mounted enemy’s horse. Trying to distract the monster to attack your Paladin instead of the squishy mage. Praying for divine intervention and...

He disliked Thieves so much, he called his novel “Gord the Rogue”.

Gary said a lot of things. He was garrulous. He was often very right*, sometimes very wrong*, and more than occasionally grouchy. I put this one down to grouchy. * “right” means I agree with him, and wrong means I do not. I assume Snarf can confirm these are the legally binding definitions...

Why I loved 1e? It was my introduction to RPG’s and gaming in 1982, summer before 8th grade. Introduction to a lifelong hobby and some of my closest friends. Why I didn’t like 2e? I was playing a Half-Orc in college when it came out. (We were a party of racial “exemplars” allied to stop a...

Same in my Greyhawk campaigns. Midsummer (1st Richfest, the Summer Solstice) is the big one, with fairs and contests in many places. A good time for PC’s to be in town, see some local color, and compete with/meet NPC’s. I’ve done it multiple times in different places with different groups in...

For me: MLB the Show 25 on Xbox. Franchise Mode as the Mariners, managing everything but Scouting, including the Minor League games. Earlier I did RTTS (Road to the Show) as a high school relief pitcher who went to UCLA got drafted in the 2nd round and made the Majors in one season. Franchise...

I like it. I didn’t know about the books.

The fact that are so many possible answers lends credence to the argument that TSR collapsed from producing way to many products that competed with each other.

It’s really in a lot of active threads here. Perhaps a groundswell, or a passing fancy. Time will tell.

Blackberry muffins at Ravenloft fair

Maybe tell them you’re playing X before, and give them the books or SRD in session 0? You know what’s really odd to me, though? With all the talk of “5e is the only thing I can realistically get a group to play” (fair enough, I suppose - if it’s true for you, it’s true for you, though it’s a...

I’m involved with 4 groups (2 as DM, 2 as a player). 3 of the groups play D&D 3.5e, the last 5e 2024 (switched from 2014 on Saturday). Maybe the difference is in how players are recruited? I’ll tell how my groups were recruited. Group 1 (I’m the DM, on email, going since 1998): 2 players I...

I still don’t get all the ENworld posts about only being able to play D&D (5e) because in the competitive market for players, that’s all anyone will play. D&D groups I’ve seen tend to be friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, college students - and with far more players than GM’s. And GM’s...

In 1980, the Federal minimum wage was $3.10, which in theory is worth $12.76 now.

I once asked Gary here if AD&D was an inside joke from his past as an insurance agent - the game of Accidental Death & Dismemberment. He chuckled he’d played in games that resembled that kind of AD&D, but that wasn’t in their thinking in naming the game.

That’s just your gravamen, man. Good Snarficle, and relatively speaking, quite brief.

I have the d20 version. I like it and have used it (as Rel Astra in Greyhawk). A city that’s also sort of a dungeon is an accurate description.

Not to go too far off piste into Greyhawk, but I run my campaigns in Greyhawk using the gold box set plus 3e Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, plus a lot of modifications from actual play and adding non-Greyhawk materials. And I am “system neutral” in where I source materials for my campaigns..

Raging Swan Press produces many, many books and configures them for System Neutral and multiple editions. Usually I buy the PF1 variant because I DM with 3.5e. Some things that come with their own systems, but that I use while ignoring their rules: Harn. Harn has its own system and also made...