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I've not had problems. No one has ever balked at my running RQ1. I got my Arcana Unearthed/Evolved (D&D 3.x) players to try both AD&D and OD&D. Since then, I have recruited players for OD&D on the odd74 boards, Classic Traveller on odd74 boards and Unseen Servant, Google+, and Roll20. Now...

Hmm. I need to tell the Thanksgiving story about a dump truck, a trailer, a digger, a pickup, and a Trooper… I was invited to my co-workers in-laws for Thanksgiving one year. I get there. He isn’t there yet. A call comes in, he got his Isuzu Trooper stuck in his yard. The trailer is hooked to...

In 2007 after I got engaged, I knew I had to thin out my hobby collection. I put huge chunks on my collection on the block, much of it an entire game run for $50 or $100. Huge bargains for those who purchased. There are a few things I regret, but more of my regrets are from older purges in the...

Hmm. Need to think about this. I’ve mostly burned out on creating characters for systems I’m not playing but maybe I could do full Cold Iron work ups of all the major Blackmarsh NPCs.

How do you figure that? I have been working on one open source project since 2010 through several employers. When IBM laid me off in 2013, I was recruited by another company to continue working on the same project. When they laid me off in 2016, I reached out to a friend at Red Hat that also...

But anyone CAN operate by the same rules... Develop a rule system that does not depend on someone else's content (BRP has always been this way, the latest Pathfinder has divorced itself from OGL D&D by my understanding). Publish your system under any license you choose. Publish an SRD that...

Makes me think of the time my friend had to work on his Chevy Impala (I think) with a straight six. The engine compartment was so large compared to the engine that he could stand IN the engine compartment beside the engine... Compare that same engine in my Chevy Van... Thought every once in a...

Another option is Wayne's Books. I haven't used either, but would love perspectives from folks who have used both. One of these days, I'm going to bite the bullet and contact one of these two and see what I can get for a lot of stuff I really don't need anymore.

One thing that is being forgotten about the benefit of an open license for game mechanics. If we accept the position that game mechanics can't be copyrighted, the expression still can if more complex than a list of ingredients. An open license allows you to cut and paste the copyrighted text...

I do wonder how I can make better pitches... As to reading pitches, MOSTLY I jump on a game (pretty much only play by post) if a GM I like is offering to run something that sounds interesting. I have jumped on a few interesting games by folks I didn't know and an interesting pitch was relevant...

Yea, I was going to call out TNE as another radical change. I also thought about calling out Traveller 2300 but that was quickly renamed to make it clear it was NOT a successor to Traveller. It would be interesting to see a list of RPGs with such major changes between editions. I know Chivalry &...

Well, at the time of writing that story, I'm not sure how much 20th level was a part of D&D. But I guess I also don't know what you're getting at. I was just pointing out that by May 1974 (and actually some months before that), there already was a 13th level magic user. And that probably...

Oh, I had never noticed the ring of wishes with 4-24 wishes... Holmes has it as 3 wishes and the Greyhawk tables don't mention the number, so I always ran it as a ring of 3 wishes... And I don't know if I ever rolled the ring of multiple wishes (2-8) in the DMG which also has ring of 3 wishes.

Here's Mordenkainen's character sheet from 1974: https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/mordenkainen-in-1974-and-today.html

In this article, Mordenkainen is 13th level and Bigby 11th. Published May 1974. So those lofty levels were already achieved by the tone of publication. https://web.archive.org/web/20110809112937/http://axe-n-hammer.blogspot.com/2010/07/gygax-legendarium-swords-sorcery-in.html

What do you mean by robust? The HP 67 my dad had was plenty robust for some helper calculations. My first Traveller fuel consumption program was written on a Sinclair Cambridge programmable calculator with 36 steps: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2696/Sinclair-Cambridge-Programmable/

Well, they might have made a dice roller or something. But yea, not much. But I DID have programs on my programmable calculators.

The first time I saw something more than a calculator at a game session was a TRS-80 hand held computer in 1979. I’m not sure if there was any gaming programming on it.

I'd be curious about an RPG that required computer assistance to play. After setting up dynamic character sheets for Cold Iron in Google Sheets, I really appreciate some things that can be made more usable. The encumbrance system is so much nicer with the ability to automatically manage...