> A lodestone in D&D was a really, really, really heavy stone. It was a stone so heavy, it would max out one's encumbrance or load. In other words, a lodestone was a "load" stone.
>
> How many decades did it take for me to get that pun? Huh?
>
> -Faux "I didn't play Dungeons & Dragons all
> those years without learning something about courage." Pas

First off, I think that is the best message title I've seen here in a while.

I started paying red-box d&d when I was 7. By then I'd already learnt about lodestones in school, so it wasn't that much of a problem. And I think I recall lodestones in the equipment lists in there as well (as a compas, of course), but I might be wrong.

winter"Tried to buy the Dying Earth RPG tody, but they'd sold out"mute