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I'd blow it up and start over from scratch, with a specific and SELF-CONTAINED setting in mind (unpolluted by crossover with existing game settings of ANY kind - leave that to people that want to house-rule such stuff in at their own risk). Spelljammer had an overwhelming amount of large and...

My response is really no different than it was in 2013. Though nostalgia is a factor, it's not the underlying reason. People are nostalgic for the days of past games and past rules editions because the newer editions aren't giving them the game they want. The current games don't give them...

Neither were prestige classes originally in 3E. They were supposed to be DM tools - something to give to players but meant for individualizing a game setting, not for exploitation and optimization purposes.

And that's fine where the "lock" is similarly abstract. But if it's defined as a small keyhole on a door or a simple chest, I say there is simply nothing substantive and USEFUL that a second character can contribute to the job. As I said, I don't consider that waving pompoms and chanting, "Go...

Probably should have explained my response in greater depth. I have the MoaET too, and 1E tables and more. But I find those tables aren't all that useful because they want to cram every possible monster into every possible terrain and climate - the "kitchen sink" approach to encounter tables...

[ Just for reference: Emphasis mine. ^ Unless the lock was of some kind of construction that actually permitted more than one character to work on it, no. Also, by definition of the action, a character who couldn't pick a lock THEMSELVES cannot assist someone who CAN at doing so. And then...

The best encounter tables are not "kitchen sink" encounter tables, but ones that are created to cover a specific area of a specific campaign world.

Actually it made it a bigger deal; a thief getting in a REALLY good backstab is an even more significant moment. Like everything in AD&D - run it how you like it. Doesn't even matter what the official rule is (if there even IS one). Rules are simply what you use while you're still making your...

Welcome back from the grave... I knew you were up to something, though I'll confess I hadn't thought of necrophilia.

I stand with EGG: Should be clear enough, but to put it in non-Gygaxian terms: It doesn't matter what the rules say if you, as DM, decide they need to be changed. The rules do not run the game - the DM does - up to and including CHANGING the rules as the DM sees fit. If you want it to be...

As suggested - it is boring, repetitious, even tedious. That really needs to be taken as a challenge to both the DM and the PC's. For starters, it's a good module for TEACHING the game. It's small combats, one after another after another. The players cannot help but learn how combat works...

Meat - chicken, beef, pork, turkey, goose, squab, mutton, goat, horse, dog, squirrel, giant space hamster, fish, mollusk, squid. etc. Prepared in an infinite variety of ways - raw, baked, broiled, stewed, fried, jerked, smoked, or dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality...

I posted on this subject just a few days ago at GitP forums I think. I guess I react badly to DM's placing participation requirements upon players beyond simply bringing dice, their character sheet, a PH, and their own snacks. And I can generally provide dice and a PH if they need. I...

Per the DMG, if cast AT a magic item (not just within the area but cast ON the item) it will cause it to be non-operational for 1 round if the item fails a save. If an item other than a potion is simply in the area of effect rather than the target then there is no effect. Artifact/relics are...

It was for sacrificing points in one score in order to raise the points of a different score. The original notion was that when you created a character you rolled the dice for ability scores and recorded them in the order you rolled them. You then had to make SOME kind of character out of the...

From a post of mine on the Rancor Pit last year dealing with the general subject of droid personhood: For starters, I see memory wipes as being performed for two basic reasons. One is a matter of privacy and informational security. Droids are ALWAYS around - but people tend to ignore them. They...

A. only put into stat blocks the stats that you, as DM, think you will need. B. play E6?

Some choices in 3E are suboptimal. System Mastery is exercised by the player to determine what those choices are and either accept them or avoid them as they see fit.

I'm nearly 56. Been playing D&D since 1976. Only thing that has prevented me playing in the past (or will in the future) is getting a group together to play.

I never assumed that dragons would draw a racial distinction amongst themselves as PC's and NPC's do. They are only concerned with who's the richest and most powerful. So, they would generally only refer to each other by personal names anyway.