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Maybe a bit off-topic... But this is precisely why I don't dig social networking sites. I feel that if someone is interested in knowing something about me, they'll ask. I really don't like people that advertise for their own personalities or try to proselytize for their favored hobbies...

Oh yes, LARP games especially seemed to be particularly rife with players that didn't like dealing with the tragic side of being a vampire. Chances are, you can tell if you're going to enjoy playing with a Vampire LARPer with a single question: ask them to describe their character. I can't count...

It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. It does happen to be mine. I love ghost stories, and in alot of ways, Wraith seemed like it was tailored exactly to my play style and aesthetics when it came out. Every time I can get a group together for it, I rejoice. Now that I've had a bit more...

RIFTS: There are already alot of RIFTS posts, but what the hell... I tried playing RIFTS twice myself, and both times, the games fell flat. There were just too many character options and no coherence or direction to the plots, although I'm willing to concede that as most likely being the GM's...

My current party is venturing to a wizard's tower located deep within a swamp. I've made deep mud at the bottom of some pools of standing water that immobilizes you if you end your movement in it (+5 vs. Fortitude, immobilized until the end of your next turn). Of course, the native lizardfolk...

I've always used miniatures for D&D games that I DM, all the way back to 1E. I had a case full of old Ral Partha miniatures in various stages and qualities of painting and I still use metal miniatures to this day (although my painting skills have improved by leaps and bounds and I mostly buy...

To me, the single biggest problem with evil campaigns and evil characters is that everyone has a different idea of what "evil" is, or what it should be. I've actually seen alot of evil PCs over the years. I've played in a Forgotten Realms game that was supposed to be "evil," but it didn't feel...

I'm just trying to express my view and stay in the context of the running gag. :cool: Ever since 4E came out, there have been alot of people who try to act like you can only play 3.5 or 4E--you can't play both for some reason. It's a view that I don't understand, but it seems to be widespread...

Oh, it gets much kookier... Fortunately, I was smart enough to get my books out of the house before my father burned them. I took them over to a friend's house the same day he brought the minister over (I had to get out of the house for the weekend, I was pretty pissed, but it turned out to be...

I still don't see why there has to be D&D monogamy. Can't I play the field? Sure, the older women don't have anything that I haven't seen by now, but they can still teach the new girl a thing or two. I still have 1E and 2E's numbers in my little black book, and if I could find the players, I'd...

So do we have a situation like with the Star Trek movies, where the evens are awesome and the odds sucks? :p

That's the boat I was in. The thing in my situation is that I knew my father was an ultra-conservative Christian, so when I started playing D&D, I actually brought the books to him and asked his approval. He said that it was cool. A few months later, I was woken up very early one Saturday...

I'll play any edition of D&D, they all have their charms and their shortcomings. I'm currently running a 4E game, although that's mostly because that's what the players dig. I'd run a 1E or 2E game if I could get people that would be willing to play in it. If I had to pick a version that I...

How about those reports of nameless, locationless kids summoning D&D demons and astrally projecting themselves? And the leading questions? Are they making a program about investigative journalism, or are they simply citing urban legends? I never really watched 60 Minutes before, but if this is...

Eh... At the time, it was mildly amusing in that wonky, we're-really-playing-a-game sense. Until we realized that he was serious, and there was that moment around the table where we wonder if we're supposed to laugh or not.

My most ridiculous experience with a homebrew was back in my 2E days, right after 2E had come out. I had a long-time player who finally decided that it was time to make his own homebrew, and with a sheaf of hex paper and colored pencils and graph paper, immediately set out to mapping his setting...

There was a moratorium against edition war threads for a while. Every time I see a thread like this, it seems like it'd be a good idea to try to get a moratorium on dramatic, preachy "I'm a lifelong player and 4E killed D&D for me and all real D&D players, so I'm leaving forever" threads. I...

I don't think you did anything "wrong" because the group has changed over time. Groups do that. On a more direct note, the free market (so to speak) has spoken about what sort of game they want to play. When given choices, players gravitate toward the choices they like. Some games fall by the...

I'd like to see a product similar to 2E's World Builder's Guidebook, that walks you through the entire process of making your own homebrew setting. I'd also love to see something like Dungeon Builder's Guidebook (2E) or Dungeonscape (3.5) that dealt entirely with dungeon design. It'd also be...

Depends on the DM and the nature of the game in my opinion. I've played in homebrews and commerical settings both where the DM has gotten a hair up their ass about changing the setting over the course of play. Fidelity to prepared material is a bigger problem than choice of settings, in my...