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AdnD We definitely used the rule about a week of bed rest after going negative. We did not use that weapon speed factor table or whatever it was called, nor did we use the grappling and pummeling roles. Ken

Boardgame Way back in 1977, when I was a kid in school, I remember hearing about this new game that the big kids were playing called Dungeons and Dragons. I asked a friend about it, and he said , 'it's a game where you use graph paper for the board'. So I don't think the boardgame analogy is...

'Protected' Wow, I really like this idea. BUT, I think that it would make sense to decouple monster knowledge checks from CR if this is going to work well. I really think that campaign settings should assign all monsters a rarity (common, uncommon, rare, very rare, unique) and these rarity...

Ok If we're bringing in other adventure paths, I'm in agreement with you guys... I think you should run the Savage Tide adventure path. Or possibly Age of Worms, though the first two adventures in that are both quite hard. I'm currently running the Savage Tide AP for the second time and...

Oh And if the _DM_ was the beginner, rather than the players, I might agree that a plot-based campaign like Council of Thieves was more appropriate. I am gearing up to run Kingmaker now, and I can already tell it is going to be a lot of work. Ken

What do you do next Steel Wind, Are you really suggesting that beginning roleplayers have a problem answering the 'what do you do next' question? I've never experienced this. Certainly, when I was 12, that was how just about everyone I knew played D&D. I have a hard time buying the idea...

RuneQuest/Glorantha I played RuneQuest for about 20 years, often running Glorantha. There was a time when I knew a ridiculous amount of useless detail about Glorantha. In my opinion, it's still unsurpassed as a setting. It has far fewer monster types and races than D&D, but almost all of...

Kingmaker With new gamers, you should definitely go with kingmaker. It's a much better introduction to D&D, in my opinion, unless your players also happen to be amateur thespians. Ken

Yeah It's really true. I have a choice of buying Paizo stuff in the game store and giving Paizo a smaller cut, or buying direct and giving them a bigger piece of the pie. If I hang out at the game store I get to talk with Joe the Game Store Employee. If I hang out on the Paizo board I get to...

Mearls and 4E There was a time when I was quite upset at the direction 4E went. But really, what do people like me have to complain about these days? There's a game out there called Pathfinder, that is pretty much exactly what 4E would be like if it _hadn't_ gone through a radical change...

Hmm Are there any slaves in this camp? Won't all these area spells kill them? I sure wouldn't want to be shackled to a wall in a building when an earthquake hit, or when it caught on fire. Ken

Congratulations I'm another one of those people who would like to like WoTC again. It's hard to know from the outside whether you getting this promotion will allow you to effect change, or what those changes would be. But it's the best news I've heard regarding WoTC in a long time. Good...

Maps I agree, it's all about the maps. Melan had a really good thread on this awhile back -- I am surprised no one has linked to it. I can take or leave story. I often find that the story in adventures puts me off, so I really like site-based adventures with minimal ongoing plot. However...

Well I don't have it disabled but am thinking of doing so. Forgive me for saying so, but it seems to me like xp correlates more with volume of postings, rather than the quality of their content. I am not sure I think the xp system makes enworld a better place. Ken

my two cents I think copyright in some form has to exist so that artists can eat, but personally I think a 15 year copyright period, nonextendable, would be fine. The existing copyright regime is excessive, and has been crafted to serve a few corporations such as Disney, without regard for the...

Thanks! The errata has this paragraph: Hardness and Hit Points Dungeon Master’s Guide, page 222 Problem: The first paragraph is not consistent with similar information for shields on page 217. Solution: Delete the first sentence after the boldface header. Change the next sentence to read as...

Hey, So I'm running Savage Tide and a question came up in game: whether monsters could sunder magical weapons with natural attacks (IE, bite). In this case, the weapon was a +1 composite longbow. The DMG says on the first line of page 222 something to the effect that magical weapons of...

Well To be honest, I haven't seen a setting where the logical results of races coexisting where one race lived so much longer than the others was really explored. In a capitalistic society, the elves would own everything. That might be an interesting campaign setting -- capitalist elves vs...

So When will the paypal links on the website be functional? I want to give you money! Ken

Great Topic! I agree with the earlier comments on Rappan Athuk and the Whispering Cairn. Rappan Athuk is the definitive megadungeon, and The Whispering Cairn is an awesome 1st level module. In my mind the Savage Tide Adventure Path belongs in there somewhere. I'm not sure which of its...