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I really don't sweat the numbers anymore. Problematic spells, items, and combinations simply cause more problems then mere numbers ever did.

Ah yes, high level play... For starters, the good old list of problematic spells can be found here. You will want to get rid of Gate, Planar Binding, and Scry. Flight and other Travel spells need to be higher level. Divinations need to have fail chances and Rope Trick should be 10 min/lvl to...

Potion of Heroism, Horn of Blasting, Frost Brand, Gauntlets of Ogre Strength, the Sun Sword, and Wings of Flying.

Rocket Tag is basically another term for Save or Die. It's derived from FPSs.

I also recommend Cage of Delirium. That module was a trip.

Not a fan. After playing several sessions where we were missing one or more roles in the party, I am really starting to wish for secondary roles or at least some serviceable coverage.

You explicitly stated (in writing) what the campaign was about and he chose to do something contrary to it. Remind him again and if he insists on doing whatever he feels like (regardless of what he signed up for), boot him.

I doubt it would be overpowered but I'll have to try it myself.

I'm looking forward to getting either an Anima, Artesia, Earthdawn, or Secret of Zi'ran game going. Or I might run BESM 1E. There are a lot of ways to scratch the fantasy itch.

It seems not all SRD prestige classes made it into the enhancement. Off the top of my head, Archmage, Dwarven Defender, and Horizon Walker aren't present.

1. Psionics: Good or Bad? Good. 2. Tome of Battle: The antichrist or best thing that ever happened? Somewhere in the middle. For 3E, it was good. What they took from it and put into 4E, not so much. 3. Fighter Sux: Yes or No? Yes. 4. Wizard and CoDzilla overpowered to the point of game...

I have to agree. Very good experience on my end too.

Me too. I really never liked how in 1E magic could eventually do EVERYTHING while fighters and thieves really got nothing more than what they started with. 2E and 3E never really solved this either. Personally, if I were to run 1E, I would literally rewrite the character classes and spell...

Ah. I didn't say that. I think it's pretty clear what I wrote.

True. It's only about 9 hours of time spent for a 5th level magic-user to memorize all his allowed spells (6 hours of rest for memorizing 3rd level spells and 2 hours and 45 minutes for memorizing the desired spells) but it's certainly not going to get better over time. If we take a 9th level...

Good analysis. I would also like to note that memorizing spells in AD&D was very time intensive as well. I recall having to literally spent 15 minutes per spell level. This means that if a magic-user were to memorize 4 1st level spells, 2 2nd level spells, and 1 3rd level spell, it would take 2...

Don't read too heavily into Forgespeak. My personal opinion is while they have done a good job of compiling assorted ideas about gaming, the Forge also talks a lot of smack and most of thier theories fail to account for D&D.

Yes. I like the uberfeats. I am really liking the material and it pains me that Monte didn't think of this eight years ago.

The Star of Kolhapur is a good Indian-flavored adventure: http://paizo.com/store/downloads/wizardsOfTheCoast/aDAndD2/adventures/v5748btpy7mgn

When I make a sandbox, I start with a basic adventuring hook, build an short adventure around it, and then expand outside of that adventure to focus on the base town, the surrounding wilderness, and interesting sites within that wilderness. For the town, I create the authority figures, thier...