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Hindsight Yes, well... Hindsight is a wonderful thang, and everbody has 20/20 vision when using it! We broke this out in, let me see, JUNE '83... (since experience had shown that you better have more than one module in the hand to get things started, 'cause they may lay in the bush for a long...

Overblown The +2 (on price) for Wounding is WAY too expensive. Hardly worth it. No, it's not a game breaker. Even vorpal fails to be a game breaker.

Derailed Came to an abrupt halt when one player, in his infinite wisdom (replace the word by stupidity), crashed the entire campaign early on by refusing to play Raistlin in character and destroying the plotline. We had a mix of people, some of whom were very happy with this storyline...

Admiration & Grogne I admire a man who knows that he belongs in with the barbarians and can admit it :D (JUST pulling your leg) Here's the nature of my complaint: the "dumbed down" version has not improved the game in any way, but it has made the books unpalatable, boring, tasteless, bland...

Close.... '79 I Guess In fact, I owe my D&D addiction to two unconnected elements: 1) that 1e DMG looked awesome, complex, intriguing... 2) Was it in Delany's (an author I mostly hated) Dhalgren (a book I mostly disliked) or Triton (another book I liked not so much) that there was the short...

Broken? You now know one... And the game was fun... And this DM doesn't "break" so easy... (Mumbling to himself "Sheesh... Young uns nowadays....") Tiny afterthought: there really was nothing broken in 1e... Now, where 3e/3.5 is concerned, well, let's just say.... :]

A Slight Tangent... Any PC wizard in the wilderness and walking deserves to die, unless winds dictate otherwise. What is it with DMs nowadays? How can the rest of the setting exist in a vacuum waiting for PCs to jump on the scene and make it right? Not that many orcs can be classed, or the...

Another Ingredient... Mix in some Midnight and watch the Dancing Lights (sparks) fly...

No, Not At All... 1e was written in quirky but interesting style 2e was influenced by that style and the blah people tried to railroad the writing into something a little easier to interpret, but it was still legible w/o dying off... 3e holds some of the most horrid writing style and...

Free Will For purposes of simplification, and as a general belief on how the world might work, not all creatures are free-willed... As a matter of fact, few are. For a chromatic dragon, alignment is already set at birth unless the adventurer acquired the egg early and nurtured it much time...

Goo...Gle We garble a gaggle of Google Docs... Google offers shared documents which equates a readily implemented Wiki... Of course, all must get a google mail account, but that is reaidly accomplished. Some only use this account for the game and maintain their parallel accounts, others not...

Any Chaos On-The-Spot Improv Strangeness My players (who have been with my sick, twisted, distorted mind for over 30 years) agree that I am at my best when I take out all the stops and just let it go... Some of my dungeons make Cthulhu seem lawful, sane and peaceful :]

Death From Above Calcium Eaters The point many people missed (including 1e rules) was that you had a hard, heavy mass in suspension falling from considerable height. Never mind the bite, as it was merely the crowning cherry on a hellish sundae of blood splatter... It's not what's written, it's...

ICE, Arduin, etc... The previous post (about getting killed in ICE) was echoed by one segment of my ICE campaign where one player spent most of two or three fights in a state of unconsciousness. He had a few choice words about ICE. For hp in D&D, if you want something more workable than 1 hit...

Cull the Dull... Prevent Mr Collins from going anywhere NEAR 4E and anything in it...

Zinnnnnggggggg (sound of blade leaving scabbard) Some DMs really MUST take darkened streets and night time parking lots in consideration when doing such silly nonsense... :]

Well... Does it sound like a melee attack roll? Hmmmm, guess it does! So STR applies. It can be argued that DEX would serve us better in this case, but Str would likely prevent your being fended off to some degree. Dex on ranged touch attacks, of course. This being said, we're you actually...

Gimp Magic That says it all... We were running around with machine gun archmages and this "thing" came along :( You may criticize Gygax prose all you want, I could pick up my 1E DMG or my PHB and just read them with pleasure, awkwardness and all. There were strange areas. And a 1E DMG STILL...

Not really...but... ...in 1E, it is WAY more fun for the DM to kill 14th level characters that took YEARS to develop... Little ToH Anecdote For the mithril vaults, I remember players using (sic) lasers.... When I got the blood gushing, one of them said "Lasers cauterize!"... 1) I died when he...

Bell Curve Statistically normalized Stoneskin...