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I think that's a great idea. There are a number of good options, and at this stage in life you're absolutely going to see a great return on your investment of time and effort in terms of overall health and feeling good if you can make some sort of exercise a consistent habit. Just taking some...

Monday night I did get in. Dumbbell benches were all taken so I grabbed an incline press machine next to an overhead shoulder press machine (the latter was occupied), did three sets of inclined chest press, three sets of machine overhead press, and three sets (plus drop sets) of lat pulldowns...

My experience so far is that it delivers much the same experience as Basic and AD&D back in the day, with fewer house rules or much less fudging needed.

Talking about our gaming experiences gives us the opportunity to sanity check, compare impressions with and get feedback from other gamers. That poster apparently has a lot of negative experiences, so that's a lot of fodder for him to try to problem-solve and compare notes with others...

Perhaps! I had a good experience running a one-shot recently using just the quickstart rules.

Yup. While nowadays I'm more likely to shoehorn a replacement PC in whenever I can and squint past it looking weird, it's pretty darn common in games for the party to be in some isolated locale for a bit where it doesn't make a ton of sense to encounter another likely PC. When my default...

Well, maybe a bit less given that SOME proportion of encounters, at least in written modules, will be hostile by default / hostile given the circumstances of the encounter.

Wyrd Sisters is the one I started with, way back in 1990. A classic.

"10 rooms of identical goblins" isn't a recognizable description of any old module I can think of. I guess it's a hyperbolic description of... maybe B2? The lethality of which if played naively/hack & slash has been widely discussed for years.

Huh. I must have missed where he characterized you at all.

Right with you. And you. :LOL:

💯 I dig how they have the same actor playing Flag Sr. in Superman and Peacemaker S2 and voicing the character in Creature Commandos, though they made him look significantly different in the latter. Frank Grillo looks young enough that I raised an eyebrow a little seeing him in Superman while...

It seems so to me, based on his cameo on Superman.

This made me think of:

Yup. Back in the day the lethal consequences of the mechanics were that you had to do SOMETHING if you didn't want to die all the time. Either you came up with alternative tactics to hack & slash (scout, talk, bribe, use hireling meatshields, etc.), or you changed the mechanics to make the...

Yup. Carl Von Ossietzky called this stuff out beautifully nearly a century ago.

Sorry to hear that none of your DMs knew how to make it work. :/ 1. That perfectly cromulent house rule does fix this issue, though honestly I don't think it's needed. Priests start with two spells and wizards start with three. In general the odds that you never get a spell off are...

Yes, I know all that*. Which is why I wrote "2E" in the comment that you're responding to. And virtually no one played 1E Bards because of their absurd complications. If you wanted to put an RPG reference in a dictionary of idioms they could be the example for "the exception which proves...

2E did have a ton of options up front, but I think the line Hussar's drawing that it mostly didn't have decisions as you leveled up is a legit distinction. No feats. No prestige classes. Dual-classing was incredibly restrictive and difficult; I think I saw it used two or three times in total...