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^_^ See, it just is not that simple. The success of the Apple Store is not just because they have iPods in the front. (I can see the articles that would’ve been written if they’d just called in the iPod store. Probably even more negative.) Yeah, I’ve been in one. I happen to know quite a lot...

I don’t think I have the ability to really play a character completely different from myself. I’m not that self-aware or talented. On the other hand, I don’t think I could ever take the life of another human, but I’ve played characters who are cavalier about doing so. I’ve played characters who...

I understand that. On the other hand, though, it can be a lot of fun to take the D&D base and build your own AD&D on it instead of just taking what TSR gave you. FWIW, humans aren’t limited in level at all. With any form of D&D prior to—what? late 2e?—it’s more about finding a character...

That’s one of the easiest to fix. Don’t do it. Either stop at the highest level that still “works” and play for in game rewards like a classic Traveller campaign or just retire the PCs and start a new campaign. They said early on “all feats aren’t equal”. This is really an insoluble problem...

I don’t know that I agree with your premise. But I will say that if the dislike was as simple as “I would play it but for the multi-class rules” then that person would just house-rule the multi-class rules and move on. The dislike has to be lots of things, something that is pervasive, or feel...

Does anybody really need the UA for this? Haven’t DMs been figuring this one out on their own for decades? I didn’t need the UA to tell me that I could just pick a number of class skills equal to the skill points I get per level and then those skills would always be level + 3 while the rest...

I pretty much agree with Diaglo’s assessment. The truth is—as I now can see—that back-in-the-day everyone I knew was playing D&D with the AD&D books. When we did use modules, we ignored whether modules were marked as D&D or AD&D and just played them with our standard D&D-in-AD&D-clothes way...

Winning converts isn’t the goal. Or at least it isn’t the reward. The reward is a better understanding of the games, your enjoyment of them, and other people’s enjoyment of them. I might not convince you to not play 3e, but I may give you an idea for how to handle something in 3e in a different...

It’s seems to me that the knee-jerk resistance to change should be roughly the same everytime. So, if you compare the amount of arguing during the various transitions, the differences won’t be due to “people just don’t like change” but due to something more substantive. The big problem is that...

I prefer character driven games. I can’t vote, though, because I’m not sure which category the campaign I’m currently playing in belongs to.

Ah! Gotcha.

Wow. Exactly the things I hated about the 3e books. Again, completely opposite to the things i’ve studied about text layout.

They say that the disadvantage of text communication is that you can misread things as more negative than the writer intended. I say the advantage of text communication is that you can (intentionally) misread things as more positive than the writer intended. Did I really type “Monte Python”...

Because someone can make the assumption that ENWorld is a representative cross-section and that they can make decisions based on that assumption—this doesn’t mean they are right. There is always the danger that in fixing what is a problem for a squeaky wheel minority will compromise what made...

I stole it from Sun. When they first made Java public they advertised it as “buzzword compliant”. Like I said, people are resistant to trying classic D&D. If they give it a chance, though, they eventually find the “transforming idea”. They find they like it and start evangelizing it. I’d say...

Here’s the secret. Just imagine the crybabies, flamers, threadcrappers, and trolls are a Monte Python skit. (...unless you don’t enjoy Monte Python...)

For me it is hard for me to vote in either. I play whatever system the person currently refereeing wants to run. There’s no “switching”. While, if I took the time to try to remember every campaign since I joined this group, I might come up with a “most played”, it wouldn’t be a significant...

Everytime my son turns off the TV, the U-verse box, the DVD player, the Playstation 2, the Wii, the computer, and his mp3 player in order to play marbles, I think that maybe the outlook for my favorite hobby isn’t quite so bleak.

After reading about how they had fixed the 15-minute adventuring day, I thought it was really funny when our group decided that if a time is good enough for a short rest it is good enough for a long rest. ^_^ 3.5 is not my D&D-of-choice. I recently did get a chance to play a high-level 3.5...

Well, with software engineers you’ve got much, much more than human nature in the way. You have every IT department who ever forced Notes as an e-mail system on people. You have every PHB who forced development practices that were meant to be a bad example but they weren’t smart enough to...