Recent content by HywayWolf

This discussion of a weak and useless magic user has me wondering if some people never do anything other than attack. It seems to me that its a lack of imagination that makes playing a weak MU seem boring. A MU is intelligent. If he isn't using that intelligence to tweak additional clues and...

I would like to point out that I did say "for me" in my post. Your mileage may differ, and it obviously does. I wasn't talking about probabilities; it doesn't matter to me if I roll 2d8 or 3d6 when turning undead. What I was saying is that if I am a cleric I want there to be some difference...

For me its because that would make the act of turning undead no different than attacking undead. Now I am sure you will find an area where I will treat a similar action differently. That's ok, I don't have to be rational, I am an old school player :). Life isn't always rational either.

I am pretty sure this was a statistical anomaly, but the first time I watched a 3.5 game in action at our local gaming store, the d20 was rolled so much that it never seemed to leave the hands of the players. They rolled it so often that they also started rolling it to decide which direction to...

For you folks that want to run BFRPG, but can't find FTF players, if you decide to run an online voice chat BFRPG send me an email. I'd love to join in.

If that's not what you meant, then I apologize. But out of 30-40 DMs you only consider 2 of them to be up to meeting the challenge of old school gaming in the manner that you think they should be to make DM Fiat work. So I concluded you wouldn't like playing old school D&D if the DM wasn't up...

Can I fix your misunderstanding or fix what you consider imbalanced player classes? Solomoriah made two pretty good posts on why he doesn't think that is a bad game design, I would assume you could understand what he is saying yet still disagree with him, so that will have to be up to you. But...

The game worked well enough with mostly less than stellar DMs to spawn an entire industry so my position is that it ios very easy to pull off that style successfully.. I don't have a lot of experience with 3.5 and 4e but I have played them and/or watched others play them. From my brief...

I'm not going to say that it wasn't meant as an insult, I'll just say that I was being frank. BITD D&D was played by millions of kids who had no clue what it took to be a DM yet the game flourished. So given that you could only find 2 out of 30-40 DMs that ran games the way you wanted means it...

Since the proportion of good DMs to bad DMs is out of sync with the actual success of the game, is it possible that the game works for many people even with average DMs, but just not for you?

I understood what he wrote. I even understood what he wrote when he corrected your misunderstanding of what he wrote. Even more, I understand that if you still misunderstand what he wrote then its because you are just being antagonistic and not really interested in rational discussion.

I know many of you may not understand why I enjoyed playing a 3 hp 1st level thief who never drew his sword in combat for the entire first level. But I did and he lived despite the heavy losses the rest of the party have taken so far. It helped that he had a high dex, but I wouldn't play a...

I am not an experienced DM or Player so my comments may not be as useful as the ones already recieved, but BFRPG is my game of choice. I played mostly B/X back in the 80's and stopped playing long before 2E appeared, so you can imagine my shock when I returned to D&D in 2007. I didn't even...

This is none of my business and I hope you don't mind me reading over your shoulder, but I am a fan of BFRPG and wanted to comment on the sling roll by nameeless. It didn't matter because she missed on her attack roll, but her damage would not have been 0 because the BFRPG rules state that on...