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Thanks, Gary. The possibility you mentioned quoted above is the origin of mind flayers on my science-fantasy campaign world. One more question: Do you remember who invented the assassin character class? It first appears in the Blackmoor supplement, but I know that not everything in it was...

Gary, how did you envision mind flayers? 1. Were they native to Oerth, or 2. Did they come from another planet on the Prime Material Plane, or 3. Did they come from another plane?

Rycanada, thank you very much for your E6 concept. I run a variant C&C campaign, and your ideas got me thinking about capping things at 6th level in my C&C campaign. (So far the highest level any of the players has achieved was 6th, and that was as an assassin--one of the classes that rises in...

Excluded: Blackmoor Alternate: Wilderlands

Here is a very interesting article: http://www.thealexandrian.net/creations/misc/d&d-calibrating.html Here is a quote from it: So what have we learned so far? Almost everyone you have ever met is a 1st level character. The few exceptional people you’ve met are probably 2nd or 3rd level –...

While I am familiar with Castles & Crusades, I am not familliar with D&D third edition. How do player characters of the two games compare? Is a 5th-level C&C fighter about as tough as a 5th-level D&D fighter? What about 10th level? 20th? Wizards? Rogues? Clerics? Etc.

Great rant, Steel Wind! :) I do not like the magic system in ANY version of D&D, as it causes the problems you so well elaborated in your post. Even an apparently innocent spell like know alignment can really take the wind out of the DM's sails. I prefer Gamma World...

It is a historical fact that the Great Wheel cosmology is NOT essential to D&D. The Great Wheel cosmology was first published in The Dragon #8 in July 1977. In other words, D&D had already been published for THREE AND A HALF YEARS before Gary Gygax's Great Wheel article was published. Further...

The "Special" category is defined on page 76 of the DMG as including "Evil creatures from the lower planes such as minor demons, lesser devils, mezzodaemons, night hags, from 1-2 in number." :)

Gary, I have two AD&D monster questions: 1. Why can't clerics turn groaning spirits? 2. You've noted that you did not use psionics in your AD&D games. What did you do, then, with the monsters listed below? Did you just not use them? brain mole cerebral parasite intellect devourer shedu...

That pretty much describes us. Our combat system in our "AD&D" games has always been pretty much that of the Basic D&D rulebook edited by Holmes, who gave us a blessedly short 4-page combat section. I can only admire those who have sifted through and understood all the minutiae of AD&D combat.

Sounds good to me! :)

Thanks for the quote and your thoughts! :)

Without Rule Zero, a DM's campaign becomes susceptible to change at the whim of the designers of 4E. What if (for example) a DM doesn't have tieflings (or even demons, for that matter) in his campaign world? Must the poor DM either wedge into his campaign tieflings and all the other things that...

Is this actually in the 3.5 D&D core rulebooks? I never bought them since (to my taste) the game is too complicated. The promise of 4th edition being less complicated is making me think that I might be interested in 4th edition.

I'd like to see the 4E Players Handbook have on page 1 a short statement similar to the following: "The content of this book is only a starting point for Dungeon Masters. They are encouraged to add to, subtract from, and/or alter any of this book's rules or content to suit their campaigns...

I assume that the Delve format will wave the big good-bye, because the people working on 4E said that the stat blocks will be reduced "a lot". :)

I am largely in agreement with Jack7 and Reynard. I prefer for D&D to be inspired by the world's mythologies (Aztec, Egyptian, Vedic, Chinese, etc.) and by the old fantasy masters (George MacDonald, William Morris, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, A. Merritt, J. R. R...

Me too. My local public library has a large theatre screen in it. I showed the movie and it was simply INCREDIBLE on the big screen. I noticed all kinds of details in the jungles of Skull Island that I never noticed just watching the DVD on my TV set at home. I miss stop-motion. :(

Gary, do you enjoy playing the ancient Chinese board game Go? (For the curious, here's some information on Go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28board_game%29 )