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I mainly got started with Starcraft and Descent back in the day. My first exposer to D&D was on TV. I remember there was an episode of Dexter's Laboratory where he and his friends are playing a game this is obviously supposed to be representative of D&D. The whole episode is about them and their...

I'm pretty sure I got the Mentzer one. It's one of the later printings with the art by Larry Elmore (I think).

Thanks everyone for responding. It's cool how much individual support there is for the game. It seems like the people who play it are a little more... I don't know. It seems more like a love of the game thing than fans of the newer editions have. Less of just having fun with whatever is new, and...

Now, I'll start off by saying I started playing when I was in middle school with the 3rd edition "The Adventure Begins!" starter/basic set thing. Now I'm halfway through college and had, until today, only played 3rd and 4th edition. I've always used a battle mat and miniatures or tokens or...

I was pondering the whole notion of players going into battle just to get the precious XP bestowed by slaughtering hordes of monsters, and as I was thinking about it, I was wondering if there was a way to get around the whole concept of going into the dungeon for the purpose of amassing tons of...

How long has your group been playing together? Off and on-ish for the past three years or so. What are the ages, genders, and professions of the people in your group? 3 Men, 1 woman. All of us are 20 or 21. We're college students. If you're at all interested in majors at all we have one...

I got started with 3e and have played only that and 4e so far. I'm what I would presume would be the target audience they're trying to reach with the new stuff (or at least I certainly was when 3e came out, I think. I was in adolescence). I was raised on video games, when I was younger I thought...

Would it make it less of an issue if you considered that not all of the other races have the same speed of growth and reproduction? As in, it takes longer for an elf generation for example to give birth to a new generation before dying off, possibly slowing the rate of what we would consider...

It's going to annoy me if it still has that recycled art in the final version. I guess it probably will. :-(

I'm mainly sad because I just started getting into the skirmish game as something to do when my friends and I are bored. But now it's not going to be that so much? Is that what this means? Also I feel like they're pressuring us to buy more stuff or play a less enriched game. ...Of course they...

I don't know if I should be mad or not. Should I be mad? New Power Cards? Seriously? How balanced are they going to be? Keeping track of those suckers is going to be a pain.

In my current campaign I'm considering the idea of having some villain (either a dark, twisted scientist type wizard, or mind flayers) do some evil experiment/whatever wherein they capture two of the PCs and swap their minds. I don't have a logical reason for why they would do this, but partly I...

The art is in general the only real thing about 4E that I don't like. The fact that they recycled art almost comes off seeming lazy. Surely it's not, I would think, but I can't imagine that they couldn't have got new art for those few images. Sure it's not really a big deal, but I would have...

I know this is a really dumb, noobish question, but with encounter powers, can you only use one per encounter? As in, say I'm a level 3 fighter and I have Passing Attack and Armor-Piercing Thrust, can I only use one of them per encounter, or could I use both of them once? Again, I'm aware this...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions earlier. But there are a couple more things the idea of a sandbox campaign has me wonder about. Hypothetically speaking, if the party goes someplace and has the crap kicked out of them, forcing them to run, does that create the risk of meta game...

I think I really like this idea for a style of running my game. The last campaign I tried to do involved me fleshing out every inch of every area and every character in a town. It really sucked when the area I'd spent weeks fleshing out in my notebook ended up getting ignored by my players. They...

I have to admit, I think the dwarf origin story is one of the most creative things I've read for a D&D campaign. Something about it seems almost moving. At least to me, anyway. I really like how tragic the world seems, at least in regards to the dwarves and the nature of Thakulion and the whole...

My list of dislikes isn't that long in comparison to other peoples. There's some stuff I like, I'll admit, and there's some stuff I dislike, but I'd assume that's true of everyone. Really, this is more or less what everyone else has already said, but that doesn't matter. Dislikes: 1. The...

Remember, though, that while women gamers maybe non majority, half of the population of the world is comprised of women. So, really, it's not at all similar at all to making up a forum for left-handed albino lactose intolerant gamers. There are a ton of women in the world, and Wizards wants a...

Think about it this way, dudes: We live in a male-centric society for the most part, right? And D&D is generally a game enjoyed mostly by dudes. So if you're a lady playing with some dudes, and something comes up that bothers you, or is an issue in anyway, you'll probably be unlikely to bring...