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It's not so much that they're a key aspect - it's more that PCs don't operate in a vacuum. Whenever they book passage on a ship (or buy one), they're interacting with hirelings. The same applies if they ever employ the services of a sage or an alchemist or a weaponsmith or a guide or whatever...

They've always been a part of the game in my campaign. Hirelings are brought on board as staff, ship crew, occasional bodyguards, troops, whatever. There is usually a henchman or follower in the party, sometimes several. Most parties will have one or more members who engage in building various...

My current group here in the UAE was formed from 3 veterans who go back to the early 80s and 3 people who had played like one session of 5e and wanted to know more. They all took to it with immense enthusiasm - it was great to see players new to the hobby discover things that seem like old hat...

Sure, if you never properly leave in the first place ;) My D&D game started with BX, then both editions of AD&D. Although I tried 3e/PF, I have returned to running it with BX and AD&D. It's like I never left. It's the same continuous campaign for over 40 years now. This is home :)

In my homebrew 2e games, NWPs almost never come up - in fact I am happy to not use them at all and leverage secondary skills and "well a wizard would know this" instead. But in my Dark Sun games, they come up all the time. I guess it has something to do with the nature of the setting? It's not...

Yeah, this is more or less what we do. Roll as high as you can, but your stat is a cap to success, like blackjack. And some checks have a minimum ability requirement.

I use ascending AC in my BX and AD&D games and have for years and it works fine. Converting descending AC and THAC0 can be done on the fly if I'm using an old product and when I write my own material, it's just baked in. I also play in an AD&D game run by a friend that uses descending AC and...

Keith Parkinson, and it's not even close.

My core stuff is the original boxed set plus pterrans and aarakocra, loads of kits, Dragon Kings, Dune Trader, Veiled Alliance, City-State of Tyr, Will and the Way, and other bits added for flavour. I use fighting styles from CFH, with more we homebrewed, made my own kits, added some non-core...

Canon is what happens in play at my table. Published material is a toolbox. For me, it really isn't any more involved than that.

No, I am not the target audience and that's fine. I've been running a persistent D&D campaign since 1983 and have so much gaming material that there isn't really anything that WotC can offer me. If I see something I like, I hoover it up, add it to my game world or my houserules, and carry on as...

This is really interesting to read because I've had a player who started with (and still occasionally plays) 5e say this exact thing to me in the last couple days. He feels that he has far more agency in our 2e game than in the 5e games he plays. I would think this is down to how the DM allows...

Only Lovers Left Alive. Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, and Tom Hiddleston as very old vampires in the modern day trying to hold on to love and meaning. Just a beautiful, beautiful film. Byzantium. Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, and Sam Riley in a run-down coastal town. At once glossier and seedier...

I thought I told you to stay off the boardwalk! :D

Yeah there's no way that Anne Rice wasn't a major influence. I mean, she coined the term "World of Darkness", never mind anything else. But then yeah, you have the Near Dark vampires in there as well, the Stoker vampires, the Count Orlok vampires, the Necroscope vampires - it's a wonderful...

Chalk and Dever! The gods speak :D Great video. I visited the GW design studio the year after this - looked pretty much exactly the same.

My current D&D party :D She reads the rat's entrails for omens. Lovely chap, rarely knows what's going on. Downtime is the best time for a pipe and a good book. I will not ruin your day by setting off all the traps. May I hit it yet?