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I don't know. While I do think that playing D&D 'correctly' requires adventuring, I also wonder why you think adventuring requires killing monsters?

I would be very surprised if those who have said "running a bakery has no place in D&D" didn't mean "running a bakery and not adventuring at all has no place in D&D".

The OP implies that Gary Gygax wrote part of the 2E DMG. Gary was long gone from TSR when 2E was released.

I used to wrestle womp-bears from my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than grizzlies. :)

Man, OotS is always good, but for the last few weeks Rich has really been knocking them out of the park.

I think he meant that Wizards could copyright the new names, not that they changed the names because of a copyright Shakespeare held.

Station Squatting. I like that. If players in an heroic adventure game (that was not explicitly about running a bakery) I was DMing tried that. I would burn their bakery to the ground.

The setting for Exalted is very well detailed and also very interesting. There are all sorts of places, themes and plot hooks just waiting to be used in adventures/stories. I personally believe the setting to be one of the best RPG settings that I have ever encountered in a lifetime of playing...

If you only get the first adventure of the trilogy, do be aware that the other two are better. The first one has a lot of "if the party goes left, they get to their destination, but if the party goes right, they are all killed in a wagon accident' situations. This may be considered 'true to...

I am not bashing 4E, just pointing out that first level characters are not as powerful as some people seem to think them to be. If you think that I am bashing 4E, you are wrong. Most common orcs are minions, just like most other commoners. With that 1 hit point, a single 'hit' will take either...

Didn't we also have a post about that fact last week, the week before, and the week before that too? ;) As a 4E DM, I have seen too many player characters killed or nearly killed by level 1 and 2 kobolds and goblins to think of first level characters as HEROES.

I am also very interested in this information.

'Dungeons & Dragons Deluxe Dice' are also listed as core on that list. I don't think the definition of 'core' being used in this thread is the same definitions of 'core' being used on that list. It is possible that you may be wrong, from a certain point of view.

When we were in Somalia in the 90s we would routinely fire rounds into 'dead' soldiers, mostly because of rumors that they would sometimes fake death and then shoot our guys in the back. I could easily see similar behavior in a fantasy world with healing magic, illusions, and bluff checks so...

Strangely enough, I almost never see the NPC opponents following these ideas either. Maybe it is the metagame nature of combat (with real world entertainment as a major reason for battle) that causes this?

**rimshot** Try the veal, folks, and don't forget to tip your waitress!

Hhave you played many ongoing (ie not one shots) D&D games with absolutely no magic healing at all?

I don't think those are the same monster. The top one is a chimera and the bottom one a thessalmera(sp?)

I was never able to get into GURPS 3e, even though I had friends who pushed it with all the zeal of drug dealers, because the art was so utilitarian and functional instead of inspiring that it completely leeched my sense of fun from the game. Merely flipping through the rulebook would quell any...

I am desperately hoping that Tiamat is the BBEG of the Scales of War AP, so I really need a figure for her.