The Tao of D&D

Our next venture with Moldvay's Basic Rulebook requires a delicate touch.  First, I cannot simply copy his material from page B5, since...

I tend to agree with JB  regarding Mentzer , so I choose to distill Moldvay's text  as an experiment.  I felt a temptation to post each ...

" The common thread here , applying across editions of D&D, is people try to learn the game from the instructional text (i.e. the r...

"Regardless of how we're running the game, when you're doing all original material with your friends, there's something cal...

"This is not something that someone just casually goes off and sets up a 1970s-style campaign, ex nihilo.  That just doesn't happen...

"... if you look at any role-playing game from the 70s, Metamorphosis Alpha  assumes you're going to draw out 24 levels of a giant ...

  These guys talked for 30 minutes yesterday, this far apart.  I could hear them clearly, with my window open in July.  They called each oth...

A dragon's breath weapon is one of the most deadly attacks in the game ... and so it should be, considering the game includes "drag...