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The biggest problem I have in running the old modules is converting the monster stat blocks to 3.5 stat blocks. It takes quite a bit of time to figure out all the saves, stats, and misc extra info that every monster has picked up since 2e. On top of that you have to be aware of how the...

Two come to mind. We were playing a whimsy game. 40th level characters and all that. I was playing the wizard. So, it took me like 12 hours to write up a 40th level wizard with all the spells, items etc... First round of combat I take a thousand points of radiation damage. Up to that...

I just got back from a game that went bad. We were just finishing up the adventure when the group just disolved. All the characters declared they were heading back home the the game broke up. There was talk afterward of rolling up new characters by the GM... everyone ducked the question and...

Look to something like Yahoo Groups My wife and I are in the same boat as you. We recently found a group by posting to the a local Yahoo Groups for gamers. All we did was post a little nondescript biographical info and say that we were "older gamers" that were looking to game with adults...

We aren't playing d20 modern. We have the books, but they don't seem to get much use or garner much interest. The problem is that we all want to play, but no one wants to GM the game. To me it suffers from three main problems 1) The enemies are mostly human. With D&D you have lots of...

The difference is that unlike the wizard, the 15th level fighter gets 3 or 4 attempts per round to damage the bad guy with an ability that is unlimited. Sure for that single attempt the odds are about the same, but the fighter gets to make many many more attempts to use their ability than the...

I agree. It seems that we all make this calculation and come to that point anyway. As a player I know what level I can start into a prestige class. I never think, MMMMM I have 2nd level spells and a +3 BAB I wonder what prestige class I can go into. Just come up with the level limit and...

Depends on how the breaks of the cheating go. If you always have to cheat the rolls to save the party because you made the monsters too powerful, then the players will be disappointed. Nothing gets old like have the GM bail you out of every combat. Your players feel like they don't have an...

Amen....Amen. Once the play gets into the 15th or so level of play the Hitpoints and damage capabilities of the fighter so out shine any other characters abilities it just gets silly. Add in the spell resistance and high saves and it seems that all the spell casters just, scry, teleport, and...

This is one of the many reasons why CR is a broken concept. The make up of a party changes the level and types of encounters you can throw at a party. How much curing, how many hitpoints, how much magic situation altering power your party has fluxuates the power of the party greatly. That...

Expanded Psionics handbook, Unearthed Arcana, and Fiend Folio

Well even with this rule they almost never make items, because there are still limits on creating items. So, they aren't mundane or cheap.

The problem Geoff is that most use rare magic arguements as a justfication for making magic less powerful. So, they can't really be seperated in the current context.

Fighter feats are just plain out of control. That's just silly.

I don't think of knocking them out and leaving them to bleed to death = happy christmas card. I guess I have trouble seeing circumstances where once a character is down it is jusitfied and appropriate to kill them while a combat is going on. At some level this is a game with real people...

Be prepared for more down time between encounters. Without curing, the party will want to attack less often and be more likely to need to rest after a battle. As such, adjust your adventures so they are less time dependant. Plots like, "if you don't do X by midnight the worlds is lost!"...

This seems wrong on a couple fronts. While it certainly is in flavor for the orcs to be mean spirited, I don't think most players would feel good about having a long running character killed in this fashion. First off, this game is about the heroes. Killing them when there was a chance for...

Look for some of the old Dungeon adventures from Willy Walsh. Those were some of the best light hearted adventures I ever played or GM'd

Good luck going to highlevels. As several others have suggested, it's better to have adventure where you use you powers then try to squash the player powers because you can't deal with them. Like monsters, challenges have a CR value associated with them. As the spell casters go up in...

Cheating is a bit of a stretch, but it is not to fair to play your NPC's as having full knowledge of your PC's just because they are intelligent. Knowing someones spell list and having the counter ready, without any story reason for knowing, is harsh. With spell resistance, good saves lots...