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End of an era, You all shall be missed. If I run into any of the Dragon crew at GenCon (or the Mercury in Seattle), I'll buy you drinks.

Expedition to the Isle of Dread (although I think Dungeon has probably done this already) Expedition to the Forbidden City (one of my favorite modules) Expedition to the Aerie of the Slave Lords (classic adventure series would make a nice addition)

I'll give you that.

Lord Voldemort is classic CE. His "new order" is "me, me, me and ME!" The only law in the new order it to please Lord Voldemort and you are punished for displeasing Lord Voldemort. Any talk of a new order was simply talk. Malfoys were also evil, probably L or N. Still, unlike You-Know-Who...

Usually, when you had something out of the ordinary, you'd sit down with your DM and run it past them to sign off on. Or it would be something the DM had come up with and let the players play. Much like the two listed above, which are very deviant additions to D&D, it was fairly common for a 1E...

I've never had so much trouble with fanatics as much as players who knew the setting and would act on knowledge that they thought was true in mine. It wasn't because they were trying to metagame, but when a player has been in five campaigns in the last couple of years including ones they've run...

For reasons that have been mentioned as well as other examples, I go with HP represent actual damage. A high level fighter can take a sword through the sterum and live. That's heroic fantasy for you. High levels end up pocupined in arrows while a single one would kill a lesser being such as a...

My appologies. The first paragraph was also meant to be helpful even if not expanded and supported very well. First is the assumption that there is a 3.5 flavor that is somehow inhibited by 1E mechanics. I'm not quite sure what that flavor was or what the mechanics in question are. He mentions...

Why bother? If there is some style inherent to 3.5, then 3.5 probably supports it better. If you want to play 1E, play 1E with whatever style it does best. Over all, I don't think system really matters. We had a 1E game start up a while back. DM just said "oh, btw, it's 1E" and nobody really...

When playing in other people's games, sometimes. I had one character that was a high born wizard with Knowledge (Law) and a background of being one of many sons of a noble and thus trying his had at adventuring to raise the money and fame needed to enter politics. Of course, some sort of noble...

I think orcs are as critical to D&D as Dragons. Sure, you could run a game without either but it would be a non-standard game. IMC, I use them as the "born evil" race. They are a corruption of elves by the gods of chaos. Orcs are only male and have the racial ability to procreate with any...

If pressed, I'm in the camp that HP damage is real damage. A heroic character can take the sword thrust to the abdomen and not bleed out where a lesser person would. That's what it means to be a heroic character and part of the genre. If a DM is going to bother explaining it too much, it's the...

IMC, many of the Drow cities are in abysses. The city is very vertical in arrangment with the walls of the abyss (perhaps a few hundred yards apart) have houses, shops and such carved from the walls. They are also covered with centuries of spider silk that form some of the structural makeup of...

As others have pointed out, it's not a matter of the deadlier weapon, its the cheaper weapon. Guns came into being because they were easier to train and less expensive than bows or crossbows. For a magic equivilent to show up to fulfill the place of firearms, it would need to be a magic simple...

Seems that most futureshock happened to the people who didn't keep up and get the cybernetic enhancements. Much like a person who doesn't have a cell phone or email in the present day. I really don't remember too many issues with people becoming sociopaths due to too many enhancements. Most were...

Typically, they are informed of what is going on around them (one primary possible plot hook and a couple of alternates) and then they choose one, unless they want to take initiative and figure out a course of action for themselves.

I played in Ravenloft, the biggest issues we had was that the NPCs that tried to help you were useless and all the major magic items you needed were legacy items. The costs for the legacy items were damning and no PC wanted them so we were able to give them to the NPCs and make them useful, but...

Probably about 3 years in 1E AD&D. Elven fighter 7/magic-user 9 from the weekly Wed night game in College. DM was pretty XP and magic stingy and I had a set of Chain mail +1, a ring of spell storing (Conjure Earth Elemental & Feign Death), Quall's feather token: sword (hidden in boot), and two...

If it was a rolling boil, it would also be possible for the water to unable to support the ship anymore and it would sink. There have been cases of gas released from the ocean floor lowering the density of the water to the point that a ship will swamp.

Using magic items as trade goods seems as reasonable as using art objects. Trade goods are traded back and forth at value just like money. Most of the games I play in have a buy value for magic items set at half market price like other armor and weapons. One thing that would mean, is that all...