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One of the things that disturbs me as an older gamer reading this and other threads and listening to comments from many of my fellow gamers is the desire to have everything created for you. I have been playing D&D in one form or the other for almost 30 years now. The only thing that will enable...

Role-playing has nothing to do with the class, it is the character. The best advice I can give you from over 25 years of playing is to start with one thing. For instance, one of my more memorable characters was started by hearing Sebastian the crab from "The Little Mermaid", playing on the TV a...

I remember playing in that series when they were produced as individual modules back in 1979 I believe. Had a great time in them. I remember that we finished off the hill giant steading by using a brazier of summoning hostile fire elementals inside the steading, then teleporting out...

Need before greed is our rule. Gold is put into a common fund. Every so often we split about 80% of the fund evenly between members. The remainder stays in the fund to pay for room and board, etc. Magic items, weapons, armor and such is given first to those who can use the item only, then if...

I think it really comes down to the players and their characters. Some characters lend themselves to heroic quests and religious crusades (Paladins and clerics), while others are more about court intrigue or stealthy plotting (bards, rogues). One thing that we have found has helped a good deal...

I know our group is not buying much anymore. We bought that core books for 3.5 and have been using those. Nothing else. I have recently purchased two of the C&C books to examine and see if we want to turn to those rules and am putting in a purchase order for the updated Judges Guild items as I...

Our gaming group has consisted of the DM and three players for almost 20 years, with the occasional add on person for a year or less generally. We have always played two characters each. This has allowed us to play differing characters and fill the group needs of having tanks, cleric, magic...

I have to agree to the comment about skills. I do not like the way you can learn new skills on the fly in 3.0/3.5. Our DM under the old rules had a computer program we used to do character generation with a number of skills you could buy using a point-buy system. These are the ones you know...

Our gaming group has used them from the beginning, over 20 years ago. We have collected and painted an assortment that must number over 150 figures or so. The grid has varied from a scored white board to a battlemat. We have just found it easier to visualize everything that way. -KenSeg Gaming...

I ran an Earth setting campaign for our group when our DM needed a six month break. I chose Earth for many of the same reasons, good maps and topography, ready made names, accents, etc. I took care of players knowing too much though by spending time redoing history and adding in AD&D monsters...

LOL, showing my age here I guess. In the old days of gaming most settings came in boxes with booklets and maps. Just old terminology. I mean official settings from companies in any form, PDF, hardback, box, etc. -KenSeg Gaming since 1978

I have been reading some of the threads on people's viewpoints of the various official settings and wondered how many people prefer homebrew over box settings and visa versa. Our gaming group has primarily used a homebrew world that our DM created well over 20 years ago. We have tried some...

Our gaming group consists of two couples with three kids between us. We just took it in stride, taking breaks when the kids need changing or a little parent time. Erin, the first born of our friends, spent many an hour rocking on my shoulder while we played. I still shudder in terror at the...

My first group was in High School back in 1978, three friends and I played together every week. I still remember Tegal Manor, City State, Wilderlands, etc. Have all of my original books and such. Finally I got married early and was moving to Florida and another of the group was joining the...

Our typical campaign lasts between 8 and 12 months under the old rules. 3.0 and 3.5 has lowered the time and we have just cut back on experience to slow down the level advancement. We play generally once a week for 4 to 6 hours. My wife and I met our friends, Don and Jeannie, at a game run by...

Our core gaming group of two couples have been playing together for almost 20 years. We have played everything from 1E to 3.5E along the way. Generally we play once a week for approximately 5 hours a session. We have rarely taken characters higher than 9th or 10th level as our long-time DM...

We always play at our DMs house and have a collection of several hundred lead minis that his wife and I painted in the past when our eyes were good enough to do the detailed work. Now that I am over 40 I find that I cannot focus well enough to paint the eyes and small details. Luckily we have...

I agree that I want to take more than 10 minutes to develop my character, but I don't want to be wasting my time in figuring out which special attack and combo works best and will make me godlike. I spend my time in character development in background story of the character. Who is he? What is...

I am thinking of running a D20/GW/Appocolypse/AD&D crossbred campaign that has been knocking around in my head for a bit. The premise is that as of a certain mystical conjuncture, our world and that of the ancient legends come back together, bringing with it all of the creatures of myth. In...

I am thinking of running a GW/Appocolypse/AD&D crossbred campaign that has been knocking around in my head for a bit. The premise is that as of a certain mystical conjuncture, our world and that of the ancient legends come back together, bringing with it all of the creatures of myth. In...