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Why isn’t ____ personally involved? Forked from: Alternatives to "Save the World" Let’s hear your reasons! There is no such personage. You’re it, guys! He’s all tied up dealing with even bigger threats, but it’ll all be for naught unless... He doesn’t care anymore. After saving the world...

Forked from: What D&D is to me, in terms of editions. My impression is that AD&D was significantly more popular in the USA and UK while (non-A) D&D was more popular (or perhaps merely easier to get—especially in translated form) elsewhere. Furthermore... The vast majority of people I knew...

Tell me about your fighter (or fighting-man) character from a pre-2000 edition of D&D or AD&D. How was he different than other fighter PCs? What did he do besides just roll “to hit”?

Tell me about your magic-user from a pre-2000 edition of D&D or AD&D who was not useless after he’d cast his spell(s). (Bonus points for stories of first-level magic-users.)

The 3e “basic sets” If you started playing D&D in or after 2000, were any of the “basic sets” significant in making you a D&D player? The D&D Adventure Game or the D&D Basic Game Were there others?

No doubt there's an existing thread where this would be appropriate, but I failed my search check...or wis check...or something... In the interview with Andy Collins, Andy says: "Being a wizard is about blasting people with magical energy." (O_O) This is so wrong for me that it has really...

Hmm. At first blush, it strikes me that most of the character creation/developing options don't really encourage a narrative style. What aspects of (3e) D&D (whether character creation/development or not) encourage a narrative style of play? & I'm less interested in comparisons to previous...

The magic jar thread got me to thinking... Thesis: In general, more spells in AD&D1e could serve as plot device or plot inspiration than in D&D3e. Discuss... My suggestion for helping to keep things civil: If something you read bothers you, read it again & figure out how you can read it so it...

The Hackmaster thread got me to thinking about Munchkin d20. Not the card game; the d20 books. Anyone actually ever played it? Or Star Munchkin? (On a similar note, we really enjoyed using the Dork20 cards when playing T1-4 under 3e.)

Reading Quas' excellent analysis of the treasure in modules makes me wonder how much modules can be used as a guide for how the game was actually played. Pick the choice that best fits your experience. Of course, there's also the fact that many groups didn't use modules verbatim even when they...

I love the idea of three generic classes. I wished 3e had gone that route--or at least something closer to it--from my first reading of the PHB. The one big thing that turns me off of True20, however, is the death spiral. Hit points may not be perfect, but--for me--they're better than a death...

If you were going to play in a D&D campaign in which all the characters would be only one level for the duration of the campaign, which level would you want? Thanks!

None of my groups have ever considered PCs directly battling deities. Indeed, we actively ridiculed such. In our opinion, a deity could merely snap it's fingers & the PCs would be obliterated. Which is exactly why, one day, I'm going to run a "kill the gods" campaign. (^_^) So, I'm just...

Well, it's not 1st Edition, but... So, I'm running my group through X1 using the c. 1981 Expert rules. (Or "extra crispy edition" as one of the player's affectionately calls it.) We started with B4 & have been having a blast. None of us had played any of the older editions in years (excepting a...

I think I tend to be a big-picture person. I'm terrible at remembering details. Note that I didn't say that details aren't important to me. They are. I just tend to gloss over them until I'm specifically focused on a specific detail. I've found that I have less success running modules that...

There's a poll asking when you think 4e will appear. I ask: When do you want 4e to appear?

I didn't say anything about the font size when the new site was first unveiled. I figured the font size would be fixed once the decision was made. I believed Morrus when he said he'd heard the millions of complaints about the font size and that it would be fixed. But it is STILL NOT FIXED. A...