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I enjoyed playing 2E at the time, but I also felt it was far and away the worst, most irritating ruleset I ever had to deal with. I put up with a lot from that system just because we had a good GM and I was playing alongside some people who made the experience fun. I also have fond memories of...

Familiars are best used for color only, I think. Get one if you can see a reason why your spellcaster would want to have a personal assistant to run simple errands for him or a reason why he'd want a companion/pet/confidante. That's what my wizard character in our ongoing game uses his raven...

Amusingly enough, this recently came up in our Scarred Lands game, where my halfling wizard Milo (AC15 without any help) has discovered that with Mage Armor (armor bonus) + Cat's Grace (dex bonus) + Shield (deflection bonus) + Iceshards (enhancement bonus, from Relics & Rituals 2), he can push...

In the absence of a "Whatever character the player thinks would be the most fun" option, I was forced to select the one I think is the most fun: the Rogue. (I am, incidentally, an expert in fun: so if your ability to make a decision is permanently impaired for some reason, you may take my...

^^^ Aw, that's cute. (I wonder what level the spell cure venereal disease is?) The only bard I ever played was in a short-lived but extremely cool game set in the Dalelands during the Zhentil Keep occupation. The characters were "out-of-towners" who had been unfortunate enough to be around...

Weird. As I've gotten older and my free time has dwindled, I spend less time reading RPG books and more time playing. I've actually got two or three books on my shelf that I've never done anything more than skim briefly, and if at some point we decided to play using one of them, I probably...

Weirdly enough, you can get something very close to that from the Marvel Universe RPG. The last one that came out, the one that has (sadly) been abandoned like the Marvel games before it. It had a very interesting mechanic where you'd assign stones from an energy pool into various actions, and...

Oh, yes. All the time. And I like it. Oh, I put on a brave face and complain after the game's over about how much I was looking forward to having that guy as a recurring villain, and how sad I am that three seconds after he stepped out and took aim at the party, the PC gunslinger popped his...

I disagree. Mostly because at the start of most games I've been in, any player who isn't completely familiar and extremely comfortable with the setting tends to take a more reactive approach until they get a good feel for what's going on, but also because a good dose of well-handled steering at...

Actually, I'm suggesting to you that in the history of the existence of D&D campaigns, this particular limitation (whether an invisible wizard casting fireball on a space he knows to be completely empty counts as an attack and therefore makes him visible) has never been interesting, important...

Okay, hands up: who else read this and thought "Why are you casting fireball on an empty area?" I appreciate a good thought experiment as much as the next guy, but man, I wonder what kind of game you're playing in where this situation could come up. Do a lot of people have games where the...

It's most common when the game starts off with "here's the world, now what are you guys going to do?", I think. Especially if all of the players aren't so thoroughly familiar with the game setting that they could basically run their own game in it, that kind of opening generally gives you a...

It's only been done once seriously in our group; when we were playing Farscape D20, our resident cannibal chef, Yain (a Scientist who added Pirate levels later), had a pulse pistol that he was inordinately lucky with. So he started saving up his Control Points so that he could spend them on...

I'm firmly in the camp of players who like minor magical stuff to be available for purchase, and more powerful items to be available via commission. Generally our GM keeps supplies of minor stuff fairly limited (only a handful of cure light wounds potions are available for sale each week, or...

In our ongoing Scarred Lands game, I'm playing a halfling wizard named Milo, with a raven familiar named Otto. On long trips, Milo chats with Otto in their personal language. Otto runs messages back and forth for him, tells people to go away when the boss is busy, and hangs out near the rogue...

Intriguing ideas; I'll keep them in mind. Somehow I'd blipped right past the non-outsider Hags when I was skimming the MM. ;) Oh, and: Usually I'd be inclined to agree with you, except that our game's going to be combat after combat for the next bundle of sessions, and I get so tired of...

I'm playing a halfling wizard in our ongoing Scarred Lands game, and just got my tiny little hands on a spellbook that contained "Polymorph Self." My selection of 4th level spells is small enough that I'm anxious to get the most out of each one, but I'm not sure how to best use this spell. To...