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What are gestalt classes? Do you mean multi-classing? If so, then, in my experience, multi-class characters are weaker than single class characters.

Just curious as to how folks would like their Assassins . . .

The player is not a munchkin. They like the story idea of a diverse character. They're not thinking about how much stuff they can slaughter at and loot to steal at all. I'm somewhat at peace now. I'm glad to see your stance on this but I'm gonna stick to my house rules (which don't create...

I struggle to picture in my mind how floppy, rubbery, ol' tentacles can force their way through flesh and the skull to extract the brain. Yes, yes, I own the Illithiad and it describes that the tentacles excrete a "flesh-desolving" enzime at its tip, but still I struggle to believe. The skull...

AD&D 1E Questions Dear Gary, Please help me find inner peace. I love 1st Edition AD&D to death, but there were two rules in the game that annoyed the hell out of me and, as a result, I did not abide by them. Here are the rules: 1) Level limits for demihumans 2) Restrictions on picking up...

How many games have I played where the PC Rogue picks the pockets of the other PCs? Do you just let the little kleptomaniac continue to do this? I find that this behaviour can quite often upset other players, but at the same time I don't want to stifle the Rogue playing "his character" --...

Actually . . . the Castle Zagyg project has got some mildly, tingly feelings perculating. It's a pitty it won't be *true* Greyhawk -- circa '83. It'll be an alien world that a Greyhawker must extrapolate from. Also, when Dave Arnesson releases Castle Blackmoor and the City of the Gods, some...

No warm, tingly feelings hear :(

Does the Mother of all Encounters follow the same rules as Core D&D: ie. roll percentile once per hour? Does the MoAET have encounters like you mentioned: bad weather, merchants, minstrels, pilgrims, a singing hill giant? Thanks

I've never met Gary in person but if he's excreting these pheromones then I'm frightened at what I might do to him. My 3E FRCS smells like a chemical plant or drug lab.

So you keep saying . . . but my 1E DMG still smells like old horse or wet dog.

Sorry about the Star Wars comments. I take them back. :o But this thread is NOT an edition war. Not at all.

This is different. The new Star Wars films are clearly inferior and even a new comer would recoil in disgust. They are tacky, they use CGI gimmicks, they have bad acting, they are submissive to PG ratings. In other words, they compromised the Star Wars mythos to make mega bucks. I don't think...

I don't think the "generic" demi-human gods were in Gygax's original vision of GH. It's just that after Unearthed Arcana TSR management decided every world would adopt them (GH, FR and Birthright). Only with 2nd Edition did they become canon for GH, I think. In UA they were presented as an...

I know there's a lot of DMs that don't like PCs to die unless they do something stupid. But what happens if it's just the luck of the dice. For example, the PC has to save or die versus a Finger of Death or Disintergrate, etc. (Even worse, it's a Power Word Kill and there's NO saving throw!)...

When I used to buy Basic D&D, 1E AD&D, or 2E AD&D products (early era) my heart would be flushed with these warm tingly feelings and I'd kick my legs in delight as I ripped off the shrink wrap. Why is it that I don't get that feeling in 3E? (Actually, to be honest, I started to lose this...

In D&D 3E it seems a forgone conclusion that you'll have a monstrous encounter every day when you go travelling. If the chance of encounter is 5-10% per hour and there's 24 hours in a day, then you're gonna come across some beastie. Not to mention, that rolling percentiles 24 times per day is...

Yes, I think the new guy's Scottish accent will die soon. He actually was caught out NOT using it once during the first session while supposedly speaking IC. Also, you're all right about the jokes made by other players about another's accent. I found that during the first session: the other...

I notice that my players very rarely speak in a distinctive character "voice". I noticed it with such contrast when a new player joined and he started playing a PC with a Scottish accent. With this accent, I could always identify when he was speaking in character. This is important for me...

There was one difference in FR's Arcane Age: Netheril 2E AD&D product line: It was 1E AD&D!!!!!!!!! Yes, in the appendix, they gave you all the rules to play 1E in this 2E product! Remember, the Time of Troubles ushered in the 2E rules. Everything before then was 1E. Similarly for GH, the...