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"Station Squatting is the act of a player or group of players to ignore plot threads and instead focus their time on frivolous activities." With this definition, there will be bickering for ever, because "ignore plot threads" and "frivolous" are subjective.... i can only advise DMs...

To me 2E felt like a rip-off. - Too similar to 1E to be worth buying - Not different enough to be a new system.

I 'distrust' game designers in the sense that over the years I have acquired some products so bad (but yet professionally produced) that they can not have possibly been published in good faith. Necromantic edit test

I think what he means is: EGG co-wrote OD&D, wrote AD&D, and founded TSR. So in ye olden days, his pronouncements had an authority, that the interjections of todays jobbing designers can never have. Then, D&D players could tolerate being 'lectured' by EGG, even if they disagreed with him.

Why dont you ask the Acaeum directly? It is certainly the most reliable source there is.

Is trying to win fun when you know you can't fail? Always the winner makes Jack a very dull boy as well. Illusionism is a whole other thread though.

My mystery thoughts: - Dont have a 'linear', mystery, ie Clue A => Clue B =>...Clue X => Solution Have multiple ways of solving it. - The mystery should develop as the investigation proceeds. - The characters should have a stake in the outcome - If there are 'pinch points' in the solution...

I have a dumb question: it may already be answered in the 24 pages, but i am too lazy to read them all. Why not just monkey with the xp tables so that progression is slower and progression above level X (6,8, or whatever) is really slow?

I think you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Think of game design as craftmanship rather than technology, and you'll see that the scope for radical change is limited. Think about what it is about 3E/4E/WHFPR/RM etc. that isnt satisfying you. I dont think its helpful to demand...

Underrated. A bunch of different people with different ideas in competition are going to produce a better product range overall for the consumer than a monopoly.

For me, Middle Earth is a boring setting, because it is cosmologically simplistic. Theres Sauron and co. And theres the Good Guys. And thats it. No mystery. No gray areas No moral triage. And, because Tolkein was so erudite and thorough, any new idea feels like an abomination. If I...

Interesting, but I cant agree with much of it. The elephant in the room, is that while Lotr and the Hobbit are brilliant fantasy stories, Middle Earth is not a very suitable setting for any kind of roleplaying game.

Oh yes, Embertrees will be after a re-worked Longbottom Down. Have you got any Starstone advice? Or homebrewed Ristenby Town?

My meaning of "low-mid magic" is that although there are spellcasters around, they dont dominate the setting - castles and armies and mundane economics and politics still matter. In a way, multiclassed spellcasters are more in keeping than single classed. As for demihuman clerics, my...

My suggestion. Have a word with the warlock player. "I want to play a Paladin. Can you play your Warlock in such a way that we both have fun? Ie. - Dont prat around (eg the pit incident) - Keep your characters "evil deeds" secret from my character - Accept that if my character discovers...

Im trying to capture 1E aesthetics with 3E/ d20 rules. Any constructive criticism appreciated. Setting: A three way mix of Middle Earth, Medieaval Europe, and Greyhawkesque D&D. "Low-Mid" Magic: a relatively small selection of naturally occuring humanoids and monsters: generally a low-mid...