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Fall semester 1980 - my freshman year in college - with AD&D as a player. I began buying books & modules the next semester. When I came home that summer I hooked my younger friends still in high school on the game. Our parents were a little worried because of D&D's rather unsavory reputation...

Quite so. Although I am surprised that we didn't cover this module before. Anyway, this is easily one of the best low level modules ever, as long as your party likes to do some mystery-solving. And troglodytes are just way cool! :cool: When we started our first 3E campaign, this was the...

As opposed to 1e or 2e, where you basically chose the entire progression of your character at character generation when you selected your class (or multi-class)? At least in 3e you have the option of responding to life-altering experiences in the campaign & developing in a new direction. In...

Kesh, where did you buy this? I've never owned the 2E version & would like to add it to my collection. :cool:

This one is tougher to answer because I DMed the series so many times that they all run together. I believe I bought all 3 original modules of the G series (before they were repackaged as a unit) back in 1981. Some of the runs through it were totally munchkin, as the party had so many magic...

This one is tougher to answer because I DMed the series so many times that they all run together. I believe I bought all 3 original modules of the G series (before they were repackaged as a unit) back in 1981. Some of the runs through it were totally munchkin, as the party had so many magic...

What Gort said. Drat! I thought I was going to be the first one making this point. :p The fact that elves are just about the only race in the MM with a CON penalty is telling. It makes them a poor choice both for melee combatants & for the classes that don't get good HD. They are arguably...

A1 has the honor of being my very first taste of D&D. I was a freshman at college & the only thing I had heard about the game up to that point was that people had disappeared playing it in steam tunnels. So of course I was intrigued. :p When a guy in my dorm bought the module & wanted to DM...

I played this one right after it came out. The GM had just bought it & wanted to run it right away. I enjoyed the back stories about how the various characters were captured. I was given the Fighter & we were thrilled to be given the chance to equip our characters off of the list provided...

Not to quibble (okay, I'm quibbling :p) Toro was not an android, but rather a human boy who had worked with his parents in the circus as part of a fire-eating act. In the '40s this was considered sufficient explanation for why he could burst into flame & fly like his android idol, the...

Well he contradicts himself twice on this issue. First he says that a character keeps his racial skill bonuses but then later claims that the example half-elf loses his racial skill bonuses. Second he claims that the example half-elf loses his racial skill bonuses, but doesn't remove them from...

It's an archaic Russian word for eye. According to my handy russko-angliskiy slovar' ;) it is still used in the phrase "oko za oko, zub za zub" - "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". Interesting. :cool:

DMG p. 288 Behind the Curtain: Body Slot Affinities Gauntlets - Destructive Power Belt - Physical Improvement Any of your examples would be legitimate magic items as they match the body slot affinities. Anyone with the appropriate item creation feats could make them at the normal cost, so...

It is always nice when someone who doesn't understand an explanation takes the time to insult the intelligence of those who took time out of their day to try to explain the situation. ;) Rather than argue the actual text (which has already been done admirably by Thanee & The Souljourner above)...

Yes on the racial bonuses for the Half-Elf. No on the Human bonus skill points & feat. (I believe that this latter was clarified in the FAQ a while back.) And of course the character would lose its Gnome racial bonuses on Listen & Craft(Alchemy).

Hmmm... Well, Tsojcanth might not be your best bet. The bulk of the module is the party wandering the caverns - fighting a different (at the time of publication) "new" (& IMHO lame) monster in each self-contained room & opening a series of doors that (once all were opened) would allow them to...

Yup, they can work. For our first 3E campaign I ran N1, U2, U3, & I4. It got the PCs up to 7th level quite nicely. Now 2 years later I am following up on plot threads from that first campaign in a new 3.5 game, using the A series as the backbone of the plot. You can't beat infiltrating &...

The 3.5 FAQ has been updated. See link below: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/er/20030221a

Specifically with the line "Lions & Tigers & Bears! Oh my!" ;)

Heighten is definitely a good choice for a sorceror. Given that an even level sorceror only knows one spell of the highest level that he can cast, but can cast that slot 3 times a day or more, heightening a lower level spell to fill that slot can be quite effective. A well-designed sorceror...