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If you do jump into 3e, what I learned from helping people make the transition to it when it first came out: Approach it as if it is a new game. Don't assume anything you know about older editions applies to 3e. With all the things that 3e did draw from the older games, it's easy to make...

Exactly. The non-rule-lawyers would have to start caring enough about playing the game on the terms of the rule-lawyers that they hire their own rule-lawyers to help them out. But, instead, the rule-lawyer either learns to concede to the point-of-view of the non-rule-lawyers enough or leaves.

I don’t think there are definitive answers to these questions. Even the written rules are only guidelines. So, here are my thoughts, for what they’re worth. (My answers might even be different on a different day.) I haven’t closely studied the Labyrinth Lord rules, so I don’t know how they...

Personally, I won’t judge the price by the page count or the price of Dungeon. I’ll judge it by the content. Ninety pages of stuff that doesn’t inspire me is worth very little. Thirty pages that do can easily be worth $7.

As I recall, elves could choose at the beginning of each adventure whether they'd be a fighting-man (fighting-elf?) or magic-user for that adventure. So, you could have straight fighter elves and straight magic-user elves... ...except that the level caps for both classes were low enough that...

Not so long ago, I was on a road-trip during which I thankfully got to be a passenger. I had been running a campaign with lots of traveling, so I really paid attention to how far I could see as we traveled. Very much most of the time, it was not very far. Maybe...I dunno...a few miles. Trees...

Funny how we find certain movies (&c.) exemplify certain games so much. Especially when you consider many of the games with movie/whatever titles on their covers. Or the movie with an RPG game as the title. (^_^) That’s the thing that really gets me about sci-fi RPGs. If you’re going to do...

If you want to include non-D&D games, then 3e is going to have a huge list of antecedents. If you want to include non-D&D books...(O_O)

(O_O) A gamer who didn’t want to game? (o_O) Of all the gamers I’ve played with, I’ve only ever seen two people turn down a game for reasons other than higher priorities. <shrug> Their loss.

Yikes! I really need to do some editing to the linked comments page. Lots of minor errors that annoy the perfectionist in me. (^_^) (I really miss the ease of infogami.) I’m very glad to know someone finds it useful!

My thoughts (...though I don't think anything that hasn’t already been mentioned): A line should go directly from oD&D + supplements to AD&D. The line between AD&D and Holmes should be pointed from AD&D to Holmes. Holmes was encouraged to include stuff from the in-progress AD&D, but Gygax...

When I rediscovered B/X D&D, I started looking for the out-of-print stuff on my Half-Price Books trips & started hitting eBay. In probably less than six months, I had just about all the stuff I really wanted. (And in total probably spent less than some single, new hardback RPG books.) Plus...

Circa 1990 I didn't think I'd ever play D&D or AD&D again. I thought the games were hopelessly obsolete, & AD&D2e had removed more of the coolness than it had updated the game. Sometime in the middle-1990s, I played a AD&D2e game on a lark. It was a blast! I found myself enjoying it so much...

Here is one version of a setup I've used in various variations. (This one was for a C&C play-by-post game during playtesting.)

Yeah. I think the regular/advanced split makes sense. Maybe even more today than it did then. Although, I tend to think the regular game could be more of a straight subset of the advanced than used to be the case. Also, I've decided there shouldn't be an introductory product. There should be a...

Varies wildly. I'm not even sure what an average would be. Although, when I'm behind the screen, I tend to constantly roll dice just to keep the players nervous. (^_^)

Keep party treasure rather than splitting it constantly. PCs cherry-pick the most useful stuff from the common pool. It's OK if the PCs have to leave stuff behind because they don't have the means of transporting it. Use either max or average hp. (Or max at 1st level & average thereafter.)...

I guess part of it for me is that "save or die" is one simple way to bypass hit points. I played for years where I was careful to always "honor hit points". I like the game better now that I don't play it that way. I find "save or die" a simple & way to handle jumping off a 200 foot cliff, the...

I'm going to format the text for the device. Which is why PDF isn't my ideal. As long as it's a PDF that I can extract the text from it without too much pain, though, then I can at least make an attempt at indexing it, reformatting it, & writing scripts to slice & dice it. My eBook won't...

I do have to say that some of the attempts in the latest Superman film to make some things "more realistic" only highlighted the remaining unrealistic bits. I liked it better when it was wholly unrealistic. (^_^)