Recent content by MACLARREN

We've met and played in hotel rooms with one session. It was fun. Rearranged the entire room with taking out beds and putting in tables etc. We have also rented a local Jaycee hall that was dirt cheap and big and stayed there as well. However, we now pretty much have a basement in one of the...

You say you have a group where you used to live and it is inconvenient to get together and to far away. Have you tried to run a game with fantasygrounds and skype? Our group is spread pretty far with all of us ranging from Philly to Pittsburgh and we have one player in San Diego with a total...

We have made our own system from what we have considered the best from a variety of games including, 3.5, 4e, Pathfinder, Conan, and Trailblazer. In our approach, we have implemented opposed dice rolls on virtually all attacks. We use armor as DR, Dodge, Parry etc and it works well. We do not...

Not sure who the artist was, but whomever it was for the 3.5 forgotten Realms stuff did a fantastic job IMO. I would love to see that artwork used again. I know we all have different tastes and I love Paizo material but loathe the art. Must be what majority wants though and that is fine. It...

I now this is not used by many but we were all skeptical on it and now will not go back. It does work. Our game is a combination of the best from Trailblazer, PF, 3.5, Conan, and 4e. We have no in combat healing means. We utilize an active defense system with conditions around spells to...

Hate it as well. We have used it in the past but none of us were fans. Our current game is a combination of Trailbalzer, Conan RPG, Pathfinder, 3.5 D&D, and 4e along with house rules throughout. We have no in game healing during combat. This works very well for us with armor as DR and...

Our group has a lot of experienced players that have been playing from the 80's so there is always something. I DM one local campaign and know that no matter how hard we prepare you better be prepared to go any direction with some of our sessions. Winging it on the fly has lead to some of the...

I would recommend using Skype with some form of virtual table top to work with. We have a campaign where we get together twice a year for 3 day marathon sessions in a sit down session. However, between these, some of us play weekly with a different campaign using Skype with Fantasy Grounds...

Stable with the core 5 gaming together since the mid 80's. We have had some periods with no play through the mid 90's with college etc. In 2001, one of our newer guys got us all back in to 3e and I received a call from our old DM and the core asking if I was interested and said I would check...

We did this once in our Black Company campaign and it was probably the campaign I have had the most fun with ever. Our concept was a little different. The available classes were, fighter, ranger, barbarian, rogue, scout, Sorc (He chose 3 paths for his spell list) and a gunner class that used...

That players roll all the dice idea is good but I still am a fan of the active defense. To me, it's all about rolling the d20 and rolling against the DM makes it that much more enjoyable. Trailblazer has a nice solution to the iteritive attack problem with no one getting more then 2 attacks...

My group has been playing D&D together for very long time. Some of us have been playing together since the early 80's and the rest since around 2000. Solid group that meets two times a year for marathon sessions that begin on Thursday nights when everyone arrives and runs through the Sunday...

We no longer track xp. For that matter, we have taken what we believe to be the best parts of Trailblazer, 3.5, Conan, 4e, and PF and devised our own rule set. It works for us. Tracking xp's and DM prep for campaigns is a pain. Therefore, the system we use now is pretty basic and and allows...

So 5e and what it would be for me? It would be a combination or everything good from 3.5, Conan, 4E, Trailblazer and Pathfinder. A system that uses Combat reactions, combat maneuvers, active defense to keep players involved, CMD, CMB, Feats from PF, Skills from PF, Spell descriptions from PF...

There are great aspects of all editions of D&D and other RPG's out there in the market today. As someone earlier in this thread has mentioned, I don't know if there is a system that is perfect and we all try to house rule to make the systems for what works in each or our own perspectives. We...