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Courtney Campbell has some good stuff on pits, makes every one a puzzle. Also, I like to put a secret door in the pit every once in a...

I'm all good here. I enjoy what you both have to say on a variety of topics, and what with the forum being pretty quiet overall I...

I started to do that...read over all the old modules I had. I started to read A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity. I remembered it as a young...

They came so close. My youngest was like "oh hey, this is like the story of Hercules!" and I was SO proud for 2.4 seconds, then he said...

Yeah. That's fair. There are a couple of tables at the back of the book to sex traps up a bit, but it's a struggle to find it. Even when...

I agree with this, and almost talked about it in the post you responded to. The early modules were sandboxy, but did a poor job of...

My first thought in this scenario is to emphasize emotion: "You see three blood-spattered corpses lying on the floor, one of them with...

It IS partially the culture though. I really like playing D&D as a boardgame, and that was transmitted to me by this group of guys when...

Well there you go! It's been a few decades, I should go read the Hobbit again. The Heretic

I wish I could be as sanguine about this as you are, but there have been precedents. Look at the blacklisting of Courtney Campbell or...

No, not at all!! It's different here and none of my comments come from my experience on this forum, because we are discussing things...

Even in The Hobbit though it talks about their predilection for mechanical genius as a defining trait: Now goblins are cruel, wicked...

A valid point, although I am not aware of any Viking analogue for the orcish love of cunning metalwork and war machines. To me that...

Or fantasy Norse, for that matter. Raping, pillaging, conquering, enslaving, it's all there. That sucks. The paradigm shifted, alas...

That makes sense. I think there is also stability--what I mean by that, is Ive been playing with the same group for 20+ years. We have a...