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AMEN! It is amazing how much people love to go off on a rant about something that they dont even seem to read/refer to. No one said Gygax is god or anything else but it seems wise to me to at least carefully consider what someone with more gaming credits than anyone I can think of, has to say...

I live about five minutes from downtown. Sadly, I am extremely unacquainted with houston's suburbs. However, I would be willing to trek outside of town a bit for a good game. Any idea how long it would take from downtown to either of the two places you mention? I have no real preference...

In the original, Mordenkainen was the PC! If you mean, in the original to be played by the consumer's gaming group, then no, mordenkainen played no part (this isnt forgotten realms, mordenkainen doesnt pull all the strings and smoke a pipe).

are YOU still looking? what are the two campaigns that you play in? i havent seen too much in houston.

God bless diaglo! Sometimes (even as a player), I LIKE having low hp (although not necessarily 1 hp!). It encourages roll play, caution and tactical skills. Hell, if all of your players have max hp at every level, toughness, improved toughness and strong constitutions, they'll have 100 hp at...

I didnt say "no" halfling barbarians. It is your world you can do what you want. I just said no one else has used a halfling barbarian in published greyhawk in like 20 years, so it doesnt fit the standard vision. yours can be different or your character can be a one-off. Like I said, if you...

Its NOT a meat grinder module. Just try to play with your brain and not your d20 and you should come out ok (when you are injured get healed, play the various factions against each other, make friends in nulb and hommlet, use stealth, etc.)

As DM, you can design whatever you want! Greyhawk was meant to be flexible. However, standard Oerth (the world of greyhawk) has historically regarded halfling barbarians as a pretty silly concept! Halflings are chubby, cheeky, less aggressive town or village dwellers with sticky fingers not...

Me too! C&C is an interesting concept of melding the structural improvements of 3.5 with a back to basics emphasis on ease of play, creation per basic etc. Castle Zagyg is something that I would have bought the first copy of in any year. With that being said, if evidence suggests Eberron has...

Houston seems closer to gaming hell. Not so many gamers, not so many game stores. Austin was paradise but sadly I moved :(

"Doesn't mean they were right. Perceptions have changed over the years. Gary, Dave, and the rest of the crew didn't really understand what they had. It grew out of a game, so it was a game. As I recall, the first time anyone referred to it as roleplaying was around 1975, when a fellow by the...

Originally Posted by takyris "Then, as I got better at writing, I tried to be original and inventive and new and different, and I wrote a whole bunch of anti-stories -- heroic stories from the point of view of the bad guy, stories where the hero completely loses or fails to change, stories...

There have been some excellent posts by Umbran, etc. and I wish I could address each one. However, although the guy who started this post is maddeningly vague, I think he does have at least one relevant point. Our hobby/games needs to attract an influx of young people to remain viable and...

Ron, I too live in central houston. There is a thread a ways back posted by some guys looking for houston gamers in general that Im currently checking out. Email me at txwad@aol.com with d&d in the title header and we can talk about this further.

"We're a group of experienced, adult gamers, who take our game very seriously. We're looking forward to adding up to 3 more reliable, enthusiastic ROLLplayers to our gaming group." I'm just about to turn 36 (eeks!). Ive been playing off and on since those little brown books (sadly, more off...

My FLGS doesnt have the issue yet but I have Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure. It is a lot of fun -- the iron golem and several assorted other baddies. I heartily recommend it.

"Agincourt would have been completely different if the french had taken the "defeated english peseants" seriously. But then that could be said about most battles. " This is one of five misconceptions that are common about medieval armies. First, let me start by pointing out that how vast the...