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I've heard the dwarven equivalent term translates to "nearly beardless head-bumpers who can't mine or hold their beer worth a darn" and the Elven one...well, let's just say I wouldn't want to offend.

That's always struck me as so chauvinistic as to be distinctly unappealing. It's like bad Sci-Fi where all the humans are good guys, and the aliens are BEM. Or something. Even though the races don't, to the best of my knowledge exist, it just feels wrong to make out that humans are somehow...

As long as levels reflect the power level of the characters, then yes, it will need to top out at some point. Of course, that is an arbitrary number, depending entirely on the granularity of the system...

Perhaps you might post some of the maps on imageshack or somewhere so we can see what they look like? Your image links aren't showing, for whatever reason.

No steam tunnel option?

Well, the best way to do one is to have the characters your players have chosen in mind. Here's my advice though, don't introduce the NPC at the beginning. Have them meet the NPC somehow. Put a prisoner in one of the early dungeons. Some notes, or a fancy item that's valuable, not powerful...

There is a reason stated in the 2E books as I recall. I don't recall one in the 1E books, but it is possible there is one there as well.

For those who don't have OneNote though, EverNote is a free alternative.

I'd think of it as a mix between Jeopardy and Double Dare. Or the Riddler's maze in that episode of Batman:TAS meets that dungeon in the D&D movie. Maybe with a little bit of Indiana Jones for good measure.

Maybe you should just not buy the book then. Or just buy it for the pretty pictures! ;) You don't say! What a revelation! Sarcasm aside, that's exactly the problem. People want different things, and what one person is looking for in a book may not be the same as somebody else. I see...

Ashes and random dice rolls. That's how I game!

Not even that dragon who got really bored guarding the eggs on the moon? :.-(

I'd rather make up my own background information, thank you very much. Please don't make WOTC waste space on something I consider junk.

Wahoo makes me think of Jar Jar Binks.

Well, the level 25 guy usually has better things to do, it not being an MMORPG where everybody is not only a jerk, they feel entitled to be one because they paid 15 bucks a month for it.

That's not very monotheistic, I don't know why you think it is either. I'm sure there is some word to describe that kind of afterlife, but I confess not knowing it. It would depend on the God, wouldn't it? Bane doesn't offer the same things as Vecna, who wouldn't offer what Gruumsh does...

Have them travel back in time, and accidentally step on a Butterfly.

Pull an Ozymandias. Do it? Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. If you really want, give them one last chance to drop a bomb on the bad guy.

Pretty much anything from Looney Labs will meet your needs. Fluxx would be a good first choice, but Chrononauts is pretty good too, but a bit more involved. Catan doesn't take that long, but it might last long enough to be a bother, so you may want to save it for occasions when you have time.

I think we're thinking of this from different perspectives I'm thinking of it as the work on the part of the GM and the players to learn the new rule, decide whups, it doesn't work, and then what? Screwed up a game session for what payback? The game's ending really quick. Who knows how it...