Recent content by WalkingDead

Just the DMG, really. ;)

Sometimes you just need a change of pace. I switch up games every once in awhile. For the most part, I run my D&D 3E Greyhawk campaign, but I'm working on some side campaigns for something a bit different (a Rifts game, as well as I'm thinking about running Mechamorphosis ... and I've been...

I generally forget to plan adventures around holiday themes, but once in awhile my memory kicks in and I run something humourous around April Fool's Day or something spooky around Hallowe'en. But this year, I honestly didn't even think of running a scary adventure for Hallowe'en until I saw this...

I've stuck with 3E and have no plans to upgrade to 3.5E. Consider I maybe play once or twice a month at most, and my campaign that started in 2000 contains a group of 5th level PCs (can you tell we don't play often?), I just can't justify buying new sourcebooks (and frankly, I can't be bothered...

I'm not sure I understand the question, but in terms of how they actually roleplay the paladin, they have a strict code of conduct to adhere to. I try to make sure the player understands that before going into it, but most of my players have been playing for many years and understand that the...

That's a generalization. Not every gamer goes out and buys a ton of roleplaying books. ... Okay, most probably do, but not everybody. ;) Over the last few years, my preference has been to stay simple (i.e. mainly just core books and modules). It's cheaper and makes my work as DM that much...

When I was a kid/teen in the late '80s and early '90s, I tried my hand at game design. Honestly, it was just too much work considering there were oodles of different games to check out, and the only people who would ever see the designs would be my group of friends (and they frankly didn't care...

After a couple of years during AD&D 2E in which I allowed for all kinds of crazy optional rules (kits, Player's Option and DM's Option books, psionics, etc.), I became frustrated with all of the optional character classes, rules and such. I don't think they added to the game. In fact, they...

Although I played for the first time in the summer of 1986, I bought my first RPG product a year later when I was 11 years old. It was the D&D Basic Set (red box) of the time. I missed out on the poorly-made dice and crayons to draw on numbers. I know the first adventure I bought was Drums on...

I haven't bought a D&D book in awhile (I'm still playing 3E rather than 3.5E). However, I've taken a shine to Fantasy Flight Games' Horizons series. I recently picked up both Redline and Mechamorphosis. I'm trying to find a copy of Spellslinger. And I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what...

I just can't go back to AD&D 2E. To be forced to calculate THAC0 again..... The horrors. But seriously, I really didn't like the game system. I got bored of it. I got frustrated with it. I actually gave up running any manner of AD&D for a few years. I only came back at the launch of D&D 3E. I...

Playing AD&D 2E for years taught me that there are a lot fewer headaches if you force players to stick with the core books for character creation. ... I still have nightmares about kits.

I've never benched a GM, and I've never been benched myself (I spend most of my time GMing, rather than playing). However, I've slipped out of groups that had terrible GMs. The worst example was a group formed through RPG Locator (I think -- one of those types of things, anyway). Myself and a...