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I wish I were better at taking notes. I am, instead, exactly in the mold of the examples you give. I have tried, but taking notes at the table simply doesn't work for me. The best I manage -- and if I do manage it, it works well -- is writing down a few paragraphs immediately following a...

I agree: one of my all-time favorites. Much as I love a lot of the modern art in D&D, very little of it transports me back to the wonder I felt when I first started playing. The nostalgia evoked by this one does it, though. I'll say this, also: I'll never run B2 again without a full-color...

No, it really hasn't been. And the fact that you continue to talk in terms of warriors "winning" or wizards "winning" is just evidence that you still don't get it.

And specifically, and importantly, and still being goddamned ignored, about adventuring wizards and adventuring warriors adventuring together.

Gotcha. A little philosophical in expression for my tastes, but I think we're on the same page in practice.

"Random" is why I use dice, so I'm sorta puzzled.

My "fix" for this was fairly cosmetic ... I just: (1) Got rid of true resurrection completely, (2) changed resurrection to resuscitation (which must be performed within minutes of "death"), and (3) changed raise dead to revivify (which must be performed within seconds of "death"). Death is...

Completely as an aside, I wouldn't have minded Pathfinder giving fighters a class ability granting +1/level on Charisma checks or Charisma-based skill checks related directly to combat or war. You'd have someone bitching that "I don't want my fighter to be a charismatic leader," but the "surly...

The reason is that what you call "balanced," I call "Harrison Bergeron." I don't need the "balance" that you apparently need. The stuff that you consider "unbalanced," I consider a feature of the game that I like. But you keep insisting that because you need the "balance," I should have to...

Did you do it intentionally? Uh, yes. And next time he'll know better. This is why pre-gen PCs are best created with spells already chosen. Well, that explains our differences. I expect people to play in a way in which the game is fun, and you think that's too much to expect. Fair enough...

Well, sure. (Except for the wizard, of course.)

No. In a system as sprawling as 3.5/PF, there is broken material. There is broken stuff in every class. A player who deliberately chooses broken material, to the point where it negatively impacts enjoyment of the game, is a douchebag. A GM who allows a novice player to choose broken...

And, once again, we see that the player simply has no choice in the matter. Because he must pick every broken spell and feat in the game. It's imperative. Poor player. Life is hard.

Not necessarily. Maybe it's wrong of my GM not to provide opponents that can't be turned into "cakewalks" by the use of one spell. Color spray (and the wizard player) does not exist in a vacuum! Why is that so hard to understand? The entire point of the GM is to provide interesting...

And that's fine. But when the way you choose to play the game means you're not having fun playing the game, either change the way you play the game or play a different game. The people who are saying 3.5/PF doesn't work for them are completely willing to change everything that does work for...

The rules also "support" a play method in which you gather at the table with your characters and try to kill one another. Explicitly or implicitly. The rules support this. It's not the way the game is intended to be played.

Even if that were true -- even if -- it's not a problem with non-douchebag players and a decent DM. In other words, the problem isn't the game system.

And that's what it comes down to. It's not enough for y'all that a fighter be interesting to play, and a contributor to a D&D party, in the game as it's intended to be played. No, y'all look at the fighter and, for some reason I can't understand, insist that he be able to whoop-ass against the...

Apparently not one you'd get, no.

Have any of you people bitching about knock even read the damn spell?