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Those look to me like they could be curtains or cloths hung on the wall and strung between posts (like a privacy screen), or some kind of energy field or magic wall. What does the room description say?

Pauli, to be clear.

I'm looking at the BECMI Basic Dungeon Masters Rulebook, page 23, and it says Blindness imposes a -4 penalty to hit, slows movement to 1/3 normal or 2/3 normal if led, and gives enemies +4 to hit you. Remember that AD&D predates BECMI by several years. To the best of my recollection blindness...

Please share photos of your Holmes set with language about elves choosing from adventure to adventure! Zach Howard from Zenopus Archives has no mention of that change anywhere in his exhaustive change list of differences between the printings/versions of the Holmes rules, but it's certainly...

The Bard (of Why HeroQuest is so Great fame) talks in the video below a bit about the archetype of the barbarian and the importance of physicality, "rippling musculature" and the vitality of the body in the genre, especially post-Frazetta. He opines that Conan's body gives him his agency in the...

Watched this when it came out on HBO Max this Spring. My recollection is that it was decent, but I felt they overdid the callbacks to/quotes from/references to the LotR movies.

TSR tried out several different methods for solo adventures. BSOLO Ghost of Lion Castle, XSOLO Lathan's Gold, and XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain used the Choose Your Own Adventure-style system of having paragraphs of content shuffled out of order through the module, so you couldn't read them...

Conan certainly does wear armor when he can, in the original Howard stories, but he is stronger than almost any man/can wrestle gorillas and the like (not beat them, but survive a grapple long enough to win with a knife or something). Not superhuman, and I don't know if Howard would have...

Totes. Do!

That bit sounds very authentic to the stories. :)

I remember Courtney Love making a speech in the early days of internet music sharing about how artists were going to have to functionally work for tips/live on ticket sales. That record sales were not going to sustain them anymore. And that seems to have turned out true. Concur. There are...

Friday night went to the gym rather than responding to an email from my ex. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) 105x16, 120x16, 120x14 +2, 120x15 +105x4. Advanced by a rep or two on almost all sets. Machine overhead press 45x16, 60x12, 60x11 +30x3. Advanced in reps all sets compared to last time. One...

Tolkien's writing desk is like a modern-day relic. My hands would be shaking if I touched it. Wow. I'll never get anything like that, though last year I DID get in on a limited run of (a hundred or so) signed and numbered posters of John Blanche's cover art for the British version of the 1977...

And sometimes it's not either, but the context of your prior relationship with the listener, including what's been said before.

Mine finally showed up last week, a big gorgeous box of goodies. But I'm prepping to move, so I'm keeping it all in the box for now.

Reminds me a little of the GLOG for which each class has only 4 templates (A-D), and you can either add a template in an existing class or one in a new class when you level up. Though GLOG caps you at only 4 total templates. Level advancement goes to 10, but the power curve flattens out a lot...

Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way that you say it.

That's what Pendragon explicitly advises players to do. Speaking of another game I'm playing now.

When the rules are fiddly and detailed it's easy to make a mistake. When character generation is quick & simple it's easy to make a new character and jump right back in the action when one is killed or disabled. One of the great things about running the simpler versions of D&D is that you...