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I feel that this thread should be stickied, for general interest. On the other hand, a sticky beard pleases nobody. Interesting dilemma.

Dandu - you're playing Pathfinder, right? Specifically, Kingmaker? The Tomb of Horrors is a designed dungeon. I don't just mean that Gary Gygax wrote it, I mean that, in the game world, it's place designed by a single intellect, with no natural 'development'. Getting inside the head of the...

The 1e Tomb of Horrors had pre-gen characters. That said, "expected rate of fatality"? It's not a killer dungeon. It doesn't aim to humble the players, just to make them think. It has a couple of brutal episodes, but it's nothing on Isle of the Ape. Compare introductions (they're both...

Shouting is clearly broken.

Veteran Suicide Bomber.

As a player, I have abused these rules. "OK, we keep hitting the unconscious guards for a few more rounds - we're aiming to put them out for a couple of days." The notion of nonlethal damage is badly implemented in D20. You can patch it, but when hit points simply "measure how hard you are to...

Heh. Unintentional, I assure you.

I am late to this party. But I did bring dip - XP point dip!

The DC for magic items depends on the obscurity of the knowledge, as with all other Bardic Knowledge checks.

Sure. Why not? "We do not doubt that living things are natural, even though they may be gathered up into the false life of the city. So it is with magic: a natural force that may be channeled into the false arcana of wizardry." That could probably be given a more orthodox coloration...

I'm going to try interpreting this charitably. Are you saying that the publication of the 1e DMG established the basis for the development of the New School? Given that the document had to be written by people who started off not knowing "what the hell they were doing", and embodies their...

I don't think that the tailoring discussion is particularly informative. Seizing on this aspect of not that much difference to say, "Well, they're not really that different" is a poor response to the debate. One can say, "Look, all the editions have fighters, it's the same game!" without less...

I think that's a tip-off that the posting was meant in jest. See also the claim that optimization is not a creed. The final paragraph looks mostly serious, though: rather than asking other enlightened non-optimizers how to put up with optimizers, it is probably better to talk to one's fellow...

Ugh. If this is what it takes for a campaign to be "unscripted", then why bother pointing to the skill challenge system? The obvious case of this sort of thing, long-standing in the game, is combat: ref describes scene, players describe actions, dice mediate success, ref describes outcome...

We didn't land on Krynn - Krynn landed on us!

If you'd taken my advice and played a Druid - of Mystra - then Wild Shape would sort you out. Don't worry about dropping the soap. Reptiles should find your pink, hairy forms quite repugnant.

Oh, now I get it. You were agreeing with me. OK. I agree with you, too. :)

I'm sticking to the art analogy. The output of a studio famed for turning out gangster rap might contain works that stretch this definition, or outright defy it. But we could still legitimately refer to the basic axis of the studio's work by reference to its most famous and prolific artists...

I think you've managed to corner the market here, champ. ;) edit: Sorry, word-traps hardly improve the tone. My main point is just that we've been talking past one another for the last couple of exchanges - time to call it a day!

I agree that there are more than two schools of roleplaying, just as there are more than two schools of music. When I talk about the Old School and the New School in music, I mean styles in hip-hop. When I talk about the Old School and the New School in roleplaying, I mean styles in D&D and...