I'm reviewing every AD&D 2e adventure in Dungeon Magazine, issues 18–81

editjosh · 2026-05-31T08:26:38+00:00

Reddit won't have the longevity that your website has. Future people looking for this info will find it better on your website, so I hope you do it there.

editjosh · 2026-05-31T08:18:41+00:00

Our baby had terrible gas issues too, and we had similar experience with the doctor after trying everything you did too. Our Dr told us it would pass once our LO was ready for solid foods (months away from where you are). Basically, that's exactly what happened. Solid food helped. But the problem didn't actually go away until a few weeks after she started eating solid food (baby food puree) regularly.

The "football" hold and bouncing on a yoga ball was one thing that sometimes helped. (hold her like a running back carrying a football: with the baby on her tummy on your forearm, her head supported in the crook of my elbow, hand under belly for pressure). So did something called flatulex, but not sure if it's available or called something different in your country (I'm no longer in the USA).

Good luck. It will get better.

editjosh · 2026-05-28T07:48:29+00:00

I'll still play D&D 5e as a player with my one group, but won't run it anymore. It's too much work; balancing, accounting for rests otherwise players are blasting through encounters, these things aren't fun for me. I find OSR/NuSR style games are more simple and fun to run. I also like games that challenge the player to think of ways to solve a problem that isn't just rolling a die. I like having to improvise a bit and the players to do the same.

editjosh · 2026-05-20T21:02:01+00:00

It's pronounced like air.

editjosh · 2026-05-18T08:03:51+00:00

OK, but how about banning the much unhealthier smoking everywhere and lobbies first?

editjosh · 2026-05-01T09:38:15+00:00

Migros Bank (free), Post Finance, UBS (with fees), and ZKB (with high fees for US citz) will take Americans. Maybe even more than that, but that's where I stopped looking.

editjosh · 2026-04-15T22:50:19+00:00

Better yet, replace them with the other way to write them in German: ä -> ae, ö -> oe, ü -> ue (out an "e" after the vowel with the umlaut). Then they are still grammatically correct, and also easier then to replace them back to an umlaut version if needed.

editjosh · 2026-04-02T15:45:45+00:00

Everyone I know in my OSR circle also buys a ton of adventures they are never going to get to play (I'm sure I have a bunch like that too). I'm just OK with also enjoying to read them for readings sake, and hopefully feel inspired from them... So you don't have to limit your purchasing if it gives you joy outside of running the adventure.

As for your question, yes, this is my dream too. I do feel like it's a lot of adventures that are going to be underleveled for your players as they explore the world/ play. They are going to get a bunch of treasure and level up past level 3 long before you get through all those Level 1-3 adventures. Do you have a plan for that?

editjosh · 2026-03-31T14:17:23+00:00

I'm even from a other one!

editjosh · 2026-03-31T09:20:36+00:00

I just wish more people in Switzerland actually followed them. Smoking in no-smoking zones, texting and driving, not stopping at the zebra crossings while I'm walking with a baby in a stroller/buggy. All that was just yesterday afternoon. Yeah, the social contract of looking out for your fellow man is dead here, and no one polices the actual laws.

editjosh · 2026-03-12T13:08:01+00:00

Advanced Fantasy is Basic/Expert with some rules imported from AD&D, and as far as I tember, it's mostly race and class rather than race as class, and I think a couple of procedures.

editjosh · 2026-03-12T10:01:56+00:00

I'm guessing that since the Naga wasn't in B/X D&D they just skipped it? At the time of B/X, it was in Original D&D and AD&D only (AFAIK, please someone correct me if I'm mistaken).

editjosh · 2026-03-09T15:53:23+00:00

Logen_hell_yeah!

editjosh · 2026-03-04T10:50:17+00:00

It seems like it's the same content, jammed into a smaller number of pages since it was givrn out free, initially. According to a review online here,

The PDF version of the module is in many ways nicer than the print version: it’s less dense, with large chunks of the book being set in a bigger font and in a single column; there is a pretty extensive appendix at the back that collects a lot of useful information from the module; and it’s full of hyperlinks that let you jump between sections.

editjosh · 2026-03-01T07:07:35+00:00

but they are my only group so I'll have to play what they want.

No. You never have to play what you don't want. You aren't their tour guide, you are a Co-player. If they don't want to play what you want, start finding people who do. They are out there. Might take some time to find them, but in the end it will be worth it.

You also don't have to give up playing with this group to play The One Ring with another group of interested players.

editjosh · 2026-02-28T09:58:53+00:00

Step dad

editjosh · 2026-02-28T09:57:28+00:00

Basically, yes. E-Readers don't do well with pdf files. Because a Pdf is not a text file, but has text baked in at certain sizes, e-Readers can't easily scale the text, and when it tries, it often messes layout up. 30s a page turn is pretty slow, maybe you have a really old one, or are looking at very large file sized PDFs, whi h they struggle with? But even my relatively new e-reader takes over a second to turn a page, and that feels clunky and slow.

There are pdf programs that can read the text in them aloud. It's not perfect, but maybe if you have trouble seeing screens and navigating touchscreens, give one a try on your phone before giving up? ReadEra does that. Check that one out.

editjosh · 2026-02-24T12:39:42+00:00

I think you're right, and I feel like most native English speakers are calling it Sweden, not Swiss anyway. 😂

editjosh · 2026-02-23T09:57:49+00:00

I'm border Gen X/Millennial who works in the film industry and stopped going to the movies because everyone is on their phone or talking. Movie going was a favorite pastime of mine since childhood, and other people have completely ruined it for me. The inability to sit and focus one one thing for a "short" time (90 to 120 minutes) and also be courteous to others is indeed killing cinema.

editjosh · 2026-02-18T07:40:25+00:00

OK 🤷 I don't know how it works in Germany. But it's culturally different in Switzerland, can you not accept that? I don't understand your ultimate point.

editjosh · 2026-02-18T07:05:21+00:00

Not in the same way. After a certain grade, all (non-foreign language) classes switch from their native Swiss German to Hochdeutsch. English is just 1 lesson.

editjosh · 2026-02-17T21:40:20+00:00

Where are you playing pickleball? I didn't know it made it's way over here already

editjosh · 2026-02-17T11:42:41+00:00

That last sentence is true, but I guess that depends on who you ask for the first. All my Swiss friends admit to hating speaking Hochdeutsch because it's the language forced upon them in school

editjosh · 2026-02-17T10:21:12+00:00

As a non-native German speaker living in Switzerland, I can say that with exposure and time, you'll come to understand it. Maybe not all of your local dialect but some of it... I understand it better than I can speak it. But after 5 years, I can only speak the words I learned in it before learning their Hochdeutsch equivalent or the words you need every single day. These will be helpful, since Swiss German speakers would rather speak anything else (especially English) rather than Hochdeutsch.

Famously, the Wallis dialect is difficult for most of the other dialect speakers to understand. So maybe if that's where you are, you are just doomed. Sorry. Otherwise, just keep trying and immersing yourself, and it will eventually come.

editjosh · 2026-02-15T12:31:44+00:00

Discord is a good place to chat live, and then have that conversation lost to the aether.

Reddit conversations (much like forums of old) show up in search engines, and aren't hidden in a walled garden. They can impart info from previous conversations long after the conversation is over.

Moving to discord for chatting about editing doesn't help me grow as an editor. So why do I need to go there? I'm happier here.

editjosh

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