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Sad to hear. I loved Wormy. Still have the "Wormy Supporter" button pin Tram sent out to folks who ordered his book when it fell through. Maybe someone in the know will finally be willing to tell the story of what happened now.

I voted Coke/New Coke. There are plenty of RPGs out there. I like some of them more than I like D&D. So if I'm playing D&D, it's not because I want just an RPG experience, there are games that do that better; it's because I want a D&D experience. So if the the rules drift far enough from...

I like your take on it. I'd handle the infliction a bit differently though. Rather than a 1/6 chance at 0 hp, I'd rather say that if a PC would be dead according to a combat result, the player can instead choose that the PC survives, but with a permanent injury as you describe. Roll for...

Well lookit that, it's the Forgotten Realms!

I'm all for it as long as it makes sense. The main one I can think of that actually makes sense off the top of my head is fatigue. E.g. a fighter starts off with 20 fatigue points. Special abilities cost X fatigue each, and when he's out he has to wait until a rest time to get them back...

The method I described automounts the game directory as "c:" Type "save" to save game, and when it asks for a target file, type "c:\save\zork1.dat" Note the extra backslash after "c:" as compared to where the game wants to save by default. To load your game, just type "restore" and give the...

Thanks for the link! I have many fond memories of Zork. Figuring out how to get this to run on a Win7 machine in a convenient fashion was a pain, so I'll share what I did here. 1) Download and install DosBox 2) In the the start menu directory, create a batch file to run zork with DosBox from...

My answer was yes. My favorite edition to date was 2nd, and I'm still hoping for something that I like better. 3rd was a lateral move, improvements were very evenly balance with stuff I didn't care for, and while 4th had a few ideas I liked, it was by far my least favorite edition.

How about this. Each sample of the ancient language that they can learn from is a cryptoquote, like the puzzles they used to have in newspapers. Solving the puzzle will give a point in the skill only to the character of the first player to solve it. That should mostly take care of the...

It kind of depends on your target customer. I'll assume we're not talking about someone recruited into an existing game because then the question is meaningless: there's no cost. For someone who isn't a gamer in any sense buying the game without being in a group, $20 - $30. This is how I...

I quite like this approach for reasons having nothing to do with the meaning of hit points. I would tweak it for very slow hit point recovery. Natural recovery is 1 hp per night but the PC must make a con check, with a penalty equal to the number of hit points he's down at the moment. Heal...

I think it helps here in that the argument is about a fantasy morality that no one really believes in rather than players' own moral codes. The former is much less likely to be a cause of acrimony than the latter. (I love the cosmology shown by your chart, by the way) I think the hardest part...

I'm late to the party as usual, and needless to say, I'm not going to read 1000+ posts, but here's my 2 bit. 1) Having alignments improves the game by getting players to think about the morality of their actions, which adds depth to play. 2) Alignments give a universal standard that players...

That only works if you have a very smooth stone floor. Any unevenness would stop the marble, level or not.

I've always thought of high versus low fantasy as defined by the amount of control the characters have over the world. In LoTR and the Elric books, the characters' actions determine the fate of the world, making them the prime examples of high fantasy. The other end of the spectrum is Thieves'...

The 1 hp of damage per cantrip I suggested upthread has a very similar effect and is simpler to use. I like your idea quite a lot, but it may be a bit much for people that dislike tracking effects.

That's assuming that casters without at will cantrips actually do suck, which is far from a universal opinion. There shouldn't be any particular hit to the caster from removing them - I doesn't look like they'll cause more damage than a weapon. And I kind of like the strong round/weak round...

Immersion for me means it's like I'm there. I'm looking for an experience like when I went to see part 2 of The Hobbit a while ago. Of course I'm aware that I'm in a theater with my wife holding my hand and my friends down the row. Still, my mind is entirely occupied with the action onscreen...

Once upon a time we had a resident expert on this topic. Unfortunately I haven't seen Bugaboo in years.

My usual answer to such a question is "If you have to ask, then the answer is yes." You're the very first exception - you're fine.