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Another Catholic here--and yes, it is 40 days from Ash Wednesday until Easter, with Sundays not counted. Sundays are not counted because *every* Sunday is a feast day in honor of the Resurrection (call it a mini-Easter, if you will). Why does the date of Easter move around? Well, the simple...

Yes, there would be a public reaction to open spellcasting. In my campaign, the only spellcasting that wouldn't get the caster in trouble is curative divine magic (cure __ wounds, for example)--outside the cities, there's more leeway, but due to world history, arcane magic is considered suspect...

I was in high school to start myself. My oldest son is now 9-1/2 and I'm trying very diligently to get him interested (so far, it's working except for the problem of rounding up some other kids in the 9-10 age group to get a decent party together). Fortunately, there's always on-line play (by...

Probably referring to those (like me) who wax nostalgic over a character with a low stat. My mage was created w/ 2nd ed rules (I don't think she could have been a mage in 1st ed because of the dex, if memory serves), with a 4d6, drop low--I took one look at the numbers, and immediately saw the...

I consider anything 9-11 to be pretty much average--neither outstanding nor abysmal. So an 8 would be just enough off the low end of average/normal to be noticed (if you didn't have a way of compensating--say an INT of 8 with a markedly higher WIS). On the other hand, I think that sometimes a...

Cracked open my battered old Unearthed Arcana, just to refresh my memory. As far as I know, paladins were always restricted to lawful good, but in UA, they were considered a subclass of cavalier, which had to start out as "any good" but could change to a neutral or even evil alignment with no...

I've played on-line (play by post) on sites with dice rollers which I swear are not only sentient, but evil. Three times in a row with level-ups, I rolled a 1 for my new hp (and was allowed a re-roll once, when I rolled a 1 again). I've seen combats drag on for 13 or more rounds, when at the...

I, too, had always thought that "canon" was a term which referred specifically to the official campaign setting material--like the detailed histories/timelines that exist for Greyhawk & FR, along with maps and political boundary lines that move depending on whether you (as DM) are setting your...

And my experience (started with Basic D&D, stayed with D&D until I moved, and the group in the new area played AD&D, but by then it was 2nd ed + Unearthed Arcana), D&D was a lot more fun than playing chess. And also from my D&D experience--seemed like expectations weren't nearly as high as...

How about--get your kids playing, and once they're all old enough, you won't have to keep hunting down a gaming group. My oldest is now 9-1/2, and I've just helped him get through creating his first character. Now I just need to convince my husband that he simply experienced a bad DM, and give...

Very good question. Another point that makes alignment difficult to pin down: sometimes DMs and players don't have the same behavior connected to the same short-cut alignment label. From the beginning, I think that there needs to be a clear understanding as to what alignment the DM believes a...

I've left games because as a player I could not trust the DM. In the first case, he'd asked for 1st level characters, and then gave us an adventure in which our only chance for survival was to stand back and let the 5th level NPCs do everything. Gee, that was fun. Second case, the DM...