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That ending made me all verklempt. I have been playing with the same morons people since sixth grade (45 years). That got me right in the feels. 😭

Advanced. I just finished reading through the Advanced Players' Book.

THACO, man. That takes me way back.

I am reading through the rule books right now, and setting it up on foundry.

I am flabbergasted by how different a 5e character is compared to an Advance OSE character. Holy smokes, I had forgotten how hard AD&D is. This is even more challenging than Castles&Crusades (re: player power).

We played it back in the olden days, but sort of mashed up together with D&D 1e and AD&D. Right now I am just reading the rule books and trying to figure out how to use Forge after spending the last six years on Roll20.

Got the books, have it set up on Foundry/Forge. Any advice, thoughts, suggestions, reviews? It looks great!

I grew up on TSR modules: two columns per page of 10 point font with the occasional picture. 1st and 2nd edition Call of Cthulhu was even harder. Read, re-read, underline, highlight, take notes, photocopy the maps (which was difficult to do back in the 80s. Someone's parent had to take the...

Seems like good energy, and a real add to the community. Welcome, foo3234!

In general, I think the anonymity of these spaces allows--maybe even encourages, somehow--people to be deeply uncivil to one and other. It's like people give in to their ids (to use the old Freudian term) and vent their darkest social impulses into the ether. So much of it reads like actual...

I've just started to read Smith for the first time. He is a very good writer: deeply evocative and 'weird' in the best sense of the word. I hope things settle down with your mom.

I've been doing a slow read--about 10 months--of the Lord of the Rings. This is my fifth time through the trilogy. I'm going to read The Silmarillion for the third time in January. Several more Tolkien scholarship books. I am considering pursuing a master's degree in Tolkien Studies, but...I'm...

Hello, nice humans. I am looking at ways to generate hex terrain (along with other things for hexes). I am messing around with the Shadowdark rules, an the old AD&D DM's Guide rules. Any others out in the world that might be helpful? A very happy New Years to all!

It depends, as DustyBoots said. What's your vibe? High fantasy? OSR? Something unique? I think the Kobold Press Midgard books is absolutely amazing: huge world with tons of different regions, each with its own history. Check it out!

I would suggest a low-magic iteration of Dungeon Crawl Classics (like the Lankhmar variant). I read Dark Angel's Shadow, Bloodstone and Dark Crusade many years ago and absolutely loved them. It has been decades, but I do remember thinking, this is some kick-ass sword&sorcery.

D&D is the big dog. I tried to get my middle school kids to play Shadowdark, and they had zero interest. D&D is the game with the largest cultural footprint, especially with the Stranger Things connection. It's the game the average person has heard of. It is Leviathan.

I wanted to think about it for a bit before answering.

That's awesome!