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Played/run all of B1-B3 and I think a little bit of B4. After that though we were into AD&D (WOW - you get a race *and* a class!) and probably considered the B series stuff beneath us. I always liked B1 myself - you could make of it almost anything you wanted which added to the replayability.

Red Hand of Doom stands out for me as the highlight of the WOTC adventures. I also quite like Forge of Fury and Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk.

I only have Descent but aside from a couple of scenarios, it does take some dedication to play...I think our last game took over 6 hours to finish. There is an expansion coming out this year with campaign rules and shorter dungeons. I like it a lot - especially the idea of the Overlord being...

Blackadder! Seriously though Edmund is not very fantasy to me, unless you're looking for some kind of low fantasy GRR Martin type sounding name...what kind of wizard is Edmund (Necromancer, Conjurer etc) and race. That might help.

Get ready for disappointment then...ala Undermountain there is a side cut-out map detailing the various dungeon levels beneath the three towers of Greyhawk ruins (which seem even *more* extensive than those in Undermountain, to me) - but only the ones players are expected to visit for the...

Thoughts and impressions please...

I'll be getting it...I have 1st ed. + all expansions but they're in a fairly delapidated state, and even though I like the art style of the original game, I like the look fo the new edition as well. I had the 3rd edition + expansions as well at some stage but one of my ex-girlfriends kept them...

What he said. We've already had a Ravenloft, Planescape, & FR Expedition (with a Greyhawk one forthcoming), so Athas would be the next logical step. A lot of the suggestions being bandied around have already had revisions at some point in 2nd or 3rd edition already, although I have to admit I...

Agreed. Atari/Infogames should be stripped of the licence as they've really done nothing for it. Hopefully they will go bankrupt soon and someone else can have a crack at it.

Seconded...Pools of Darkness is the only D&D CRPG I gave up on before the end (and right before the end at that). Easily the toughest battle I've ever faced.

I think around 5 years. Either my Dark Sun dwarf gladiator Derdoldranxildrandrolak "the Lofty" (the others just called him Derdoldran or "Stumpy") or a 1e cleric back in the day. I also had a necromancer somewhere along the line in an evil campaign that lasted a few years.

Well I don't *want* computer games to replace tabletop RPGs - I want a different type of experience (see above for my preferences), which was why I didn't like NWN. I was referring to my complaint that Atari haven't done anything I've really enjoyed with the D&D license (Atari hold the IP)...

Well everyone has their own opinions, but for me the best D&D *computer* games are those where one player controls their own party (ala BG, IWD, Gold Box, Eye of the Beholder). I love the feeling of developing an efficient "team" and trying the game through with different options. Yes NWN was a...

Atari have done absolutely nothing I've really enjoyed with the D&D license. The few CRPGs they've release have been either too multiplayer focussed for my taste (NWN series) or horribly buggy and pushed out the door too soon (TOEE). Aside from those two titles, all they've released have been a...

I wasn't a big fan of the huge empty maps in the original Ruins of Undermountain and I doubt I'll be a huge fan of them here. In defense of B1, at least the DM was provided with a lot of description, and only had to select monsters and treasure to spice up the scenario. Here it seems like...

I'm really impressed with this book - beautiful art, well-written with a nice balance between new rules and new background details. Anywone worried about a simple conversion of the FR2E Drow of the Underdark book need not worry! One disappointment though, I haven't yet found any information...

Tomb of Horrors doesn't have a lot of "enemies" in it, unless you count the tomb itself and Gary Gygax's bizarre design approach (No Save! No Save! NO SAVE!).

Are you playing 2nd Edition or 3.x? If you're playing second edition, then I would recommend the original boxed set and the first adventures (Freedom and Road to Urik) as a great start. Road to Urik in particular has some awesome roleplaying scenarios. For a later adventure, Dragon Crown is...

I'm not against him becoming a wizard, I just think that if he wants to do it while in an adventure set in an isolated pocket plane then he has to accept that it's not like he's in a big city and can rock up to the nearest wizard's guild, lay down some cash, and walk away with a full spell book...

We are currently running through the FR adventure the Twilight Tomb and some of the players have just gone from level 3 to 4. My brother is playing an Elvish Thief and now wants to take a wizard level. I told him that he will have to either find some scrolls or spellbooks before he can cast...