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AD&D: Cloudy Mountain 15 Baldur's Gate 24 Baldur's Gate II 26 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Series 14 Chronicles of Mystara 20 Dungeons & Dragons Online 4 Eye of the Beholder Series 21 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 17 Gold Box: Dragonlance Series 20 Gold Box: Savage Frontier Series 20 Gold...

I'm pretty sure that the OP's first language is not English.

AD&D: Cloudy Mountain 19 Baldur's Gate 24 Baldur's Gate II 24 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Series 16 Chronicles of Mystara 20 Dungeons & Dragons Online 7 Eye of the Beholder Series 21 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 16 Gold Box: Dragonlance Series 20 Gold Box: Savage Frontier Series 20 Gold...

AD&D: Cloudy Mountain 21 Baldur's Gate 24 Baldur's Gate II 23 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Series 18 Chronicles of Mystara 20 Dungeons & Dragons Online 16 Eye of the Beholder Series 24 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 15 Gold Box: Dragonlance Series 20 Gold Box: Savage Frontier Series 20 Gold...

Virtually everything. I used Combat and Tactics and Skills and Powers, with the class modification SP systems from Spells and Magic and Michael Morris' Dusk materials (which included a system like the one found in Spells & Magic for Warriors and Rogues, to replace the systems found in in...

AD&D: Cloudy Mountain 21 Baldur's Gate 21 Baldur's Gate II 20 + 1 = 21 Still my favorite - only slightly edging out Torment. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Series 18 Chronicles of Mystara 20 Dungeons & Dragons Online 20 Eye of the Beholder Series 22 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 21 Gold Box...

Howdy! Been along time since I've been a regular around these parts... I mostly stopped playing D&D around 2006, and didn't care much for what I saw of 4th edition... not that I had time, between building a career (and changing direction about three times), pursuing an advanced degree, changing...

"Everyone in Wot who wasn't one of the half-dozen main young protagonists advanced more like the way I'm describing. Lan took decades to become the best swordsman in the world. The non-protagonist Aes Sedai studied at the Tower for decades or even over a century. Etc. " Well, yeah, but are the...

Well, there is fiction that moves THAT fast: Wheel of Time. The entire duration of that massive epic, from leaving the Two Rivers to the battle of Tarmon Gai'don, was a whopping two years and seven months. Rand Al'Thor goes from 1st to 20th before he's old enough to drink. So either one...

It's rather ironic, too, given that Gary Gygax was himself an evangelical Christian, and tried to create a moral universe in the games that reflected Christian ideas of good and evil, at least in general outline. Also, my gaming groups over the years have been roughly 50% Christian, and...

In 4th edition, or to some extent core 3e, this may be true- but in part, that's why I don't play either one (when I do play 3e/pathfinder, it's with a lot of options). But "don't let them 'buy anything magical'" doesn't mean "don't let them buy anything magical", it simply means that they can't...

Wow, yeah... characters who steal from other characters are bad, though I've had plenty over the years who have gone even further than that... I once had two Paladins (Lawful Good 2nd edition ones at that!) try to murder each other over a dispute... a party Paladin (same group, different...

Yes, and I was saying that "ineffective" can vary tremendously with DMing style.

Oftentimes, however, what constitutes an effective character can vary heavily with the setting and DM. The "random assortment of roleplaying menagerie" type character would probably be pretty effective in a campaign that I run, given my DMing style, whereas I tend to go out of my way to penalize...

Yes, this. Back when I ran 2nd edition AD&D in high school, I had a player who would show up at the game with some piece of complete cheese (like the Complete Humanoid's Handbook, or Faiths and Avatars, or both) and insist that he had to play a Minotaur Specialty Priest of Mystra or some such...

I can hardly blame them- it is a cool trait. And I could see ways to work with it- in fact, a whole party built around characters who were all given a "linked" set of heirloom weapons could be really cool. But I can also see how it could get annoying.

Well, we might actually be in partial agreement here... the guy who comes with a pre-invented character with an elaborate backstory and whole world seemingly built around him is... not what I have in mind, and I can't stand that either (they often come with a whole bunch of in-jokes and...

The subject says it all... as a DM, what kind of characters can't you stand. I'm not talking about distinct classes (though we all have a few we don't know what to do with- Monks, for me), but tropes that really drive you crazy. For me, it has to be the "mysterious wanderer from a far-away...

I always thought the limits were ridiculous. So, you've hit your limit... now what? Retire and start a new character? Usually if we did that we'd restart the campaign, otherwise the level disparity would be too great (and what would be the point of letting them come back in with a character at...

Yes, it has been around a long time. My favorite early example is probably The Secret of Bone Hill... that module influenced me a lot back in my early DMing days in the 90's. A fleshed-out town with lots of adventure hooks, local lairs, and a big dungeon to do what you will with... But it seems...