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True, I'd forgotten about that. :) Still, the most common gold dragon depictions prior to 3e were 'western-ish' looking.

I will agree with other posters in that it sounds to me, as if you're being deliberately obtuse, either to show off your "asian Jeopardy" skills or simply for the sake of arguing. It's evident from even a cursory reading of the original post that the poster simply wished to eliminate obviously...

Holy crap. My guys would get up and throw on a DVD if a 3-4 round combat encounter took an hour to resolve. We're currently playing an 'old school' D&D, and we routinely get through 10-12 rounds of combat in less than 5 minutes. Even when we were playing 3.X, one round (four players) took us...

Actually, from what you say below (at least on the first two points), I think you are seeing it; you're just not recognizing it. Dude, that is the definition of 'combats take a long time' as far as I'm concerned. 3-5 minutes per round, 4-8 rounds of combat? That works out to 12-40 minutes...

What Elephant said...kinda... In a technical sense, m20 works in a similar manner to the earliest forms of D&D, in that there is only one AC number (and, therefore, one attack roll number); so you simply roll a regular attack vs the target's AC. That said, one of the unspoken tenets of m20...

I have to agree with the camp that's saying the skirmish game was what failed, not the minis themselves. When DDM first came out, I tried the skirmish game. It was an interesting novelty for a "some of the players can't make it; what do we do now?" game night, but we quickly lost interest in...

Dude, call it 'typesetting,' 'formatting,' or whatever you want (in the publishing business, from what I can tell from my friends who are in said business, 'typesetting' is still proper terminology), people still have to be paid to do it. This has everything to do with the ability to support...

I can't get too upset about a remake of The Crow, since I didn't think the original was all that good to begin with. Like the comic it's based on, it's a forgettable gothpunk revenge fantasy. If Brandon Lee hadn't been killed on the set, I doubt it would have done half the box office it did...

Hmmm....no offense intended, but this comes as news to me. I distinctly recall running games with "no magic items for sale, ever" many times; actually, make that every time...no matter what variant of D&D I was using, including 3.X edition...and for pretty much the reason cited above. The PCs...

Thanks (to everyone who replied)! Old School gaming may not be about nostalgia (though I'd argue the point to an extent), but my purchase of the Basic Rulebook was; and so was the group's initial decision to run a game (well, for most of us, at any rate). I will definitely agree, however...

Hi, all-- Just throwin' this out into the void: I bought a WELL-used copy of the 1980 D&D Basic Rulebook at the FLGS for 2 bucks recently, just out of nostalgia. Last Saturday night, one of my players called to say he couldn't make it, so we decided, on a whim, to play an 'old-school'...

Your character sheet looks great! Much better than the one I did. Would it be possible to get you to make a version with a fourth stat (Charisma) and a fifth skill (Personality) in the respective areas? Those are the primary 'alterations' I've made to m20 that would be reflected on the...

I think that was a large part of the problem, as well. To tell the truth, I cherry-picked the useful stuff (the basic "Perform" skill mechanic, chances of pregnancy charts, a few spells, items, Prestige Classes, etc.), created my own 8-ish page mini-document, added that to my DM notebook, and...

Yeah, my guys like it differentiated, too. I handled it this way because I wanted the cleric's use of 'magic' to reflect the fact that the cleric is channelling a minute portion of the limitless divine power of his deity (in a similar way to Turning Undead); while wizards use arcane lore and...

I like this. It makes characters a bit more 'customizable' but retains the level-scalable aspect of regular m20. I'm probably gonna implement this in my version of m20. Regards, Darrell

Glad to see there's still interest in m20. I wondered if the 'long-thread rule' would kill off our discussion. Anyhow, as promised on the other thread, here is the work I've done on differentiating one type of magic from another. I know Greywulf will consider it needless complexity, but my...

Which would be exactly what I don't want. I want combat over with ASAP. My group has been experimenting lately with an idea from Core Elements: simple opposed rolls to decide a winner & loser in any given combat. The amount of damage being dealt (to both sides) is really the only sticking...

Paradigm Concepts' Arcanis setting for 3e/d20 was pretty good at 'interesting twists on standard material,' and had the advantage of being integrated with GR's Freeport setting material from the outset. Rather 'vanilla,' yes, but vanilla is a pretty good flavor. Regards, Darrell

We did that for year...er, well...decades. :) Nowadays, however, our group finds the combination of Dungeon Tiles and miniatures helps everyone keep a better grip on the situation. We still don't use 'em for everything, but it just helps some of 'em to visualize a combat environment...

I buy 'em to use in RPG play--never the miniatures skirmish game. I buy several boosters from each set, and rarely have trouble acquiring specific minis (even the 'big' rares) by trading with other collectors online. I now have scads of orcs, goblins, skeletons, elves, dwarves, etc.; and...