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Damn straight! Don't give me any of this GUI crap, it's DOS command lines all the way! (Substitute your favorite and later versions of D&D for the above.)

These sorts of statements have always bugged me a bit, because they're always made using fighters as the example. The wonderful toughness of 1st. level characters isn't so apparent if one is playing a 1st. level Bard, Rogue, Mage or Sorcerer. Unless one maxes out Constitution, those are...

It bewielders me that there can even BE grognards for a game that's only eight freaking years old. Now Traveller, THAT'S a game where there's room to be a proper grognard. Say "Classic Traveller is best" or "They should have stopped with Megatraveller", and people will know where your coming...

One would hope so. But on the other hand, this... ...might still confuse some people. :D

I personally found the fuss over 3.5 bizarre. I mean, other companies put out new versions every two years or so, with no real ill-will. Consider Call of Cthulhu; every three years or so they put out a new version that basically consists of altering some fonts, and nobody has a problem with...

I vote for the Big Four, with some customization so that Sorcerer, Monk and Barbarian will be folded into respectively, Wizard and Fighter. If that's done, there's a good chance that Ranger will be as well. Bard may become a varient of Rogue, though its enough of a catch-all category it may...

Sure there is. High level wizards and other spellcasters. All it takes is the right dimensional travel or Gate spells, and you can justify any creature being on any D&D world. In fact, with the existance of planar travel, I'm not sure you can really tell if ANYTHING is a native species in...

Wary, "smart" players are fine, as long as one doesn't mind the game stopping for a while at each encounter. And the neat thing about that is that hour or two that the players spend arguing about the best thing to do gives the GM time to check his notes, maybe go out and have a cig, surf the...

Which is a better game? One where the PCs wade through the scenes without fear of losing, or one where the players spend two full sessions planning for one simple encounter? From an earlier game group: our 3rd-level characters had to bust some pirates out of prison. Because the players were...

Carl Sagen used artichokes in his monograph on this subject, long long ago. Fans immediately responded with the idea that Spock was the product of genetic engineering combining Humans and Vulcans. Which STILL leaves the problem that humans and artichokes are more closely related, and so it...

All of the stats are very general, catch-all categories that encompass several related traits, so it makes sense that Charisma would include both physical appearence and charm. Seperating out Appearence would be for those oddball D&D offspring that have a dozen or more stats. Like, say...

Well...no, not for the first two elements, or not as a direct threat to the players. He can certainly set up town where disease or rampant demons is a problem (though the actually actions of demons in a game of DitV are quite different than D&D- more similar to Medieval demons), however he...

Not if they want to keep the True Fans happy. Of course the business model that the True Fans want is for the company to put out a single main book (cheap paper, with no artwork), and maybe three world/adventure books, and then never print anything again. That way the company can go out of...

My only add -on to the advice that's been given out before is that this situation isn't at all about the rules, but rather about respect, and willingness to play fairly. The rules are but a front- this is really about his relationship with you. And frankly, there doesen't sound like any...

It's the "roll your loot up into a big ball" thing. Seriously, I'll buy D&D is videogamish when my characters get extra lives, and when dungeons have save points in case of a TPK.

The "HP=Con" idea really lowers the difference between character classes, which I think is nice to a degree (especially since I usually play Bards, Rogues and Wizards). But I'd probably go with the "John McCLaine" system of adding Con to the Max HP characters normally get at first level. If...

At the core of D20, you have the resolution system, 6 stats, skills, and feats- and the last two are pretty variable. So given how modular it is, I'm not at all surprised its flexible. Of course I knew people who would kitbash AD&D (and before that D&D) into all kinds of weirdness, such as SF...

At 200GP per spell level, plus the cost to buy the spells, spellbook creation pretty rapidly becomes one of the main expenses for a mage, so I've never seen a character have more than one set of spellbooks in recent years. Those two items themselves are pretty damn expensive, though they reduce...

IMO, while standard D&D style magic would be out of place, don't forget that the Elric saga counts as S&S, and IIRC, there's been some other sorcerous protagonists in S&S books. I think with some modifications, the magic system in True20 could be made to work well in S&S, since it tends more...

I don't think that its an either-or situation. Certainly players and the GM impart their own feel to a game, AND a game's system also contributes a feel to the game. If nothing else, how the players respond both to character creation and the rules set will have subtle repercussions in play...