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To bad he never repeated the brilliance of B2 in that area: Completely leave naming (or not naming) the NPCs up to the DM/group.

Heck, and through most of the 1990s I lived in a world effectively without official D&D.

I’d be willing to entertain this thought, but only for a minority of RPGs. First of all, let’s be clear that there is a long distance between D&D disappearing and there being nothing but fan-produced PDFs. All I have to do is count the number of in-print RPGs on my Amazon wish list (none of...

<shrug> I managed to glean useful stuff from Gary’s DMG and Dave’s First Fantasy Campaign. How much worse could it be? ^_^ Although I’m really more interested in any insights into the process of being a DM from looking at the artifacts of that practice than about making sense of the content itself.

Heck, that’s exactly what I want. I was disappointed that Gary was making it “suitable for publication”. I’ve got plenty of that sort of stuff, and there’s plenty more to be had. I want to see the actual practical notes of a master DM.

Wizards has never depended upon D&D to stay afloat. Note also that after each new edition comes out, they have lay offs. The industry needs the hobby more than the hobby needs the industry.

^_^ Some of my biggest mistakes have been when I looked at something and thought, “that’s not logical” instead of “there must be something here I’m misunderstanding”.

Heh. I’m not sure I ever put mine in a MSWin machine at all. ^_^ The important thing (to me) was that the books were in RTF so I could make use of them with nigh any system.

I was lazy this year and just got my gaming group gift cards. u_u Gaming stuff on my own wish list this year: Talisman upgrade kit Baron Munchausen (I can’t really see myself playing it, but it seems too good not to have.) Aces & Eights Dragon Warriors Munchkin Quest Hero System Sidekick BRP...

So far the only 2e supplements I’ve really had any interest in are the HR series. This is definitely a good acquisition. You can look at all the splats and—better yet—search them without wasting space on them. If you find one of them actually appeals to you, then you can seek out a hard-copy.

Haven’t we already had multiple threads about this recently? Can’t someone with search permission just post some links to ’em? My short summary of my position: 2e had a lot of good ideas, but I found very few of them to pan out well in play. From the beginning, I always saw NWP as a sad...

What drew you to roleplaying, rather than watching the endeavours of characters created by other people (on TV series for example)? I enjoy both. What aspect of roleplaying do you enjoy the most? (Escapism? Creating an original character? Being able to tell a collective story? Doing things...

I probably stopped trusting game designers c. 1985. I started trusting them again c. 2004. Nah. I’m just as big an idiot when I post under my real name as when I post under a pseudonym. ^_^

New rule: 1 XP for each 1 gp credited to your account.

Of course. A shop in town run by a unicorn that happily buys and sells all sorts of magic items works for me as well. I don’t think one way is better than the other.

Not necessarily. It could be... The wealthiest don’t have a lot of cash. Their wealth is mostly land. And they generally find their land much more valuable than any magic item. My standard assumption is that it is far from sure that there is someone out there to buy a magic item. That’s the...

Yikes. I already want this book even more. Looking forward to the future installments of your review.

I used to think D&D was too combat oriented. These days, I feel it has become even more combat oriented. Now, when I look through that lens at older editions, they look more exploration oriented. I think spells and magic items have a lot to do with this. No doubt, however, that Q could do a...

I really fail to see how this is any weirder than any other topic in this forum. What’s so different about coming to the conclusion that you don’t like a system that makes it weirder to discuss here?

I like such threads. I come here to discuss the hobby. To discuss what we like and what we don’t. To talk about why we like what we like and why we don’t like what we don’t like. Exactly the kind of stuff you’ll find in a “I quit” thread. I think my enjoyment of the hobby has been very...