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Of course it's a game, and I never said it wasn't. Nor did I say that the player should have it easy and not have to go adventuring. I was specifically referring to much of the "old school" DM advice that often involved really cheap ways to cheat the players out of rewards that they had...

That was an issue in every edition of the game I've played. Ever since there have been sourcebooks, players have bought them and want to use an exciting new concept in the game. It might have been classes, kits, races, or spells from a Dragon magazine article, PHBR supplements, one of those...

I would be inclined to agree with you on that. My first exposure to 7th-level and higher spells was in the "Set 3: Companion Rules" D&D set, which had a pretty limited subset of the high level spells that were in AD&D (I think no more than 8-12 per spell level). Never really played much at...

Yeah, it's definitely a learning process. In the 20 years or so that I've been gaming, there have been very, very few times when we've actually ever used those higher level spells in the game. If this is the first time that these high level spells are actually seeing regular play in-game, then...

I think that many people had a very different experience than I did with earlier editions of the game. I started playing D&D in 1986 at the age of 12, with the "Red Box" D&D Basic Set (1983 Mentzer edition). The one with the Elmore painting of a red dragon on the cover, with all the interior...

Nimrod of Nump of the Misbegotten Realms I don't remember the exact issues... late 80s or early 90s anyway. The spells of Nimrod of Nump. Spells like: Detect Normal Fires (Range: Touch), Transmute Rock to Stone (any amount of nonmagical rock into stone, Drawmij's Instant Death (Drawmij...

If more within-class customization options existed such that there were a lot fewer "add-on" options like feats and prestige classes, I would endorse it most enthusiastically. Think of it as a more structured customization.

I disagree that stripping down the Realms would kill its draw. I found the setting a lot more compelling when it was just the Grey Box back in 1987. It had just enough detail to get my creative juices going without dragging all of that extra baggage in. I think the old boxed set was just as...

It's already received a fair bit of praise already, but The Book of the Righteous is one of my favourite RPG products of any line, by any publisher, since D&D started. Changed my entire outlook on Clerics and in-game religions and what they represent -- and it just makes the whole setup in...

I'm an animal person in general. Currently, we have three cats and one dog. My wife already head the three cats when I met her and I was temporarily living at my parents' place again with my two cats. I had to leave my cats with my parents when I moved with her because five cats is a little...

You don't need any mod chips or hacked firmware to pirate games on a PC. Just a standard DVD burner, a good BitTorrent client, and a quick search for a no-CD patch or crack. It's not difficult to get a mod chip for a console, but I seriously doubt that more than a very slim percentage of...

Bioware made BG2, although it was published by Interplay under their Black Isle Studios label. Bioware is still around and making games, although they don't hold the license for D&D. Interplay shut down Black Isle a few years ago, and then later folded altogether. Interplay held a license to...

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for sure. It's my new favourite game of all time. Although it may be more of a gamer's game. My wife and I have been having a blast with Elebits. It's fun, inventive, and ultra-cute. :D Wario Ware: Smooth Moves is awesome and a lot of fun. Rayman...

I'd never even heard of it before this thread. And I'm 32 (almost 33) and have been playing since about 1986.

The Dragonlance Chronicles were amongst my favourite fantasy novels for many years. But they were also some of the first fantasy novels that I ever read. I was about 12 years old at the time, and I had read The Hobbit and Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. And many Endless Quest books...

It didn't start with George Lucas, folks... :cool: Except people seemed to think it's okay when Tolkien did it.

The idea is that there would be a handful of basic classes that capped at a fairly low level, leaving more specialized/advanced roles to prestige classes and not having the core/base classes competing with the prestige classes at higher levels. Didn't say it was a brilliant idea, just was...

I would also like to see a move away from (or at least more alternatives to) the necessity of magical healing. It forces people who don't want to play clerics to play them because the party needs a healer. If you allowed a wizard type to use healing spells, the only problem that I foresee is...

I've got a couple of conceptualizations that I'd like to see changed, right off the bat: Divine vs Arcane magic distinction. Get rid of it -- it's arbitrary in the first place and becomes more meaningless and meaningless over time. The only real driving "logic" behind it is that "wizards...

I've done this, not really for D&D but earlier, when creating a set of attribute scores for a computer/console RPG design. My own set had (mostly independently-arrived-at) analogues to what are Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, and Intelligence in D&D (different names for some), but I ended up...