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Sorry, I've skewed you're result by voting for everything (or should I say failed to skew?). Sufficed to say, I've done everything on that list, often several at once.

The worst PC name I ever had was a gnome called Filchbatter... Sadly, I chose the name from the list of typical gnome names in the 3.5 PHB. :P

Here in New Zealand, we don't use miniatures - we use hobbits!

I voted 'end of the stroy arc'. Since I ran Grimm with it's 'level up when you feel like it' system, I don't think I'll ever count XP again. (I'm toying with some ideas on how to remove XP costs as a balance in D&D.)

I voted not knowing when to quit, but thats more a of symptom. The real problem is lack of teamwork. Its never good when the only healer tries to be a frontline fighter.

Like lawyers could get into the plane of lawful good?! :-)

It's a 'guy thing'. ;)

My current charatcer is built around that particular loophole. He's a duergar rogue, with a level of fighter for the weapon and armor profs. Tumble also improves your defensive fighting, which is perfect, since I'm aiming for Dwarven Defender. As for the issue of free slings and clubs: McD's...

That theory has been for the most part discreditted in the nearly 30 years since that article was written. There are a number of factors, but I think the most telling is the fact that there still exist in Mexico people who eat the same traditional diet as the Aztec would have and show no signs...

A recent issue of Scientific American had a short little blurb about a study that found that male baboons prefer playing with trucks and female baboons prefer playing with dolls. So the answer to your question is proabably genetics. (Of course you also have to take into consideration the issue...

I voted D&D first (introduced to the red box in an afterschool program). However, my first encounter with a published RPG was a few years earlier. Summer at the shared beach house. The teenagers were playing The Marvel Superheroes game and dragged us younger kids in. I played Mr. Fantastic. All...

'All This Stuff Takes Time' from Mystic Journey (1996). Bill died of a heart attack Beating up his wife Now he's come back as a lesbian Who's looking for his wife Who is now a psychoanalyst Who likes to work with plants Except of course on weekends When she likes to wear the pants She's a...

I've had ideas for female characters, but in retrospect, I don't think I've ever actually played a female character. I have played a misogynist ghost who only possessed women (based on an Arlo Guhtrie song, of all things); and a gay samurai (in two games that were short lived, so no one ever...

The d6++ are ugly and hard to read, but I really like the d4. Much easier to read than the standard variety. I would, however, prefer an elongated tetrahedron (AKA the wedge). IMHO a patent on the entirety of a regular polyhedron with numbers on it is indefensible (specific funny pictures is a...

I voted for the first option, but it's more like 99%. Every so often there's Dungeon advenmture that fits my needs. Also, it's always worth stealing a decent map.

I like the Marrash, in part because it's a 'real world' monster. However, Imret has a point. Reading through the MMIII, several critters made me ask 'Why?' and many of those also made me ask 'WTF?' I mean, really, who's going to use a race of barbarous half-gorrilla, half-spiders with a straight...

I voted 'We expand/complictate' and by 'we' I mean 'I'. Actually, my current campaign is Grimm, so we're not using alignments (Kids are always good, sort of, and villains are always evil, sort of). But, when I'm running a more typical D&D game (if you can call Maztica or Dark Sun typical), I...

I voted spite. The DM creating pregen characters is good for a one-off (GREAT if the DM really knows his players), but not for a campaign. On the other hand, I once ran a Vampire game with European vampires traveling to Hong Kong, and ran a one-off with Demon Hunter X as a break from the main...

By my reading, the 3.5 halfling fits the description of Hobbits at the beginning of the Third Age. (Not to be confused with those lazy-ass Hobbits at the end of the Third Age. :) )

From your perspective, what makes 3E a different game from AD&D? Is it just the 'd20 system' or are there other elements? You've suggested that d20 is rules heavy (perhaps it is). But do you think it's more complicated than 2E?