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XP and loot is the glue that binds adventurers together, huh? :) Gygax did an unbelievably good design solution in including xp/loot/levels in an RPG. The first RPG, no less. EDIT: on the game vs. story subject, read my sig.

QFT. I've always felt D&D was pretty cheap compared to for example drinking or going on a holiday. On my last holiday in Thailand I averaged 100 euros a day (it adds up during a month long holiday), and however fun that might've been, it's not comparable to countless sessions of D&D you can...

It's not a problem that the player thinks "might makes right". Because in D&D, might does make right. Of course if a merchant doesn't like the PCs attitude, he's free to hire someone else. But IMC he'd probably be worse off - it's the difference between hiring a Jack Bauer and a mall security...

The whole "Dying of the Light" WFRP adventure from Hogshead publishing. Horrible piece of railroaded crap. I cried foul as a DM and threw the thing away, having wasted the money. I'd never spring something like that on my players. It was so bad that I wouldn't try to sell it because then I...

DM: "You remember when I asked you if you want to play Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, and you said no?" Player: "Hmm, yeah, I heard it was a bit too much dungeon crawling for our tastes.." DM: "Well, the thing is, the adventure happened anyway, you just weren't there, and you see, since...

One good sticking point is consequences. Keep track of all the people and creatures the PCs have wronged. In a usual D&D campaign that list is going to grow quite quickly. Once you have some NPCs that have an axe to grind with the PCs, think what they have been up to since the PCs have been...

Hehee, excellent ! ! ! :D

That argument is very weak, since Fire and Brimstone rules clearly state "If you fall into lava and you are immune to fire, you don’t die." So if fire immunity prevents you from dying, I wold think fire resistance 50 would make you die less. Also, that rule is weak: if somebody with 1 hp left...

Completely weak rules. Surely having fire resistance 50, for example, would get you a save? Also the rules are ambiguous. If you teleported into lava, you wouldn't die.

Happens all the time, albeit not exactly like you wrote. It's more like "I know a couple of Hummer / BMW / whatever drivers who are complete jerks. I'd never buy a Hummer to avoid being associated with that crowd." The RPG crowd is more extreme in this regard. For example, I think that the...

Maybe they just can't help themselves. Treebore is polite and coherent most of the time, but I guess he also succumbs to an attack of the C&Cs every once in a while :\

I'll promise to switch to electronic Dungeon when you switch to digital toilet paper, tree murderer! :p

BTW, is it called the 'SIEGE' or the 'SEIGE' system? I've seen people use those terms almost interchangeably.

Gygax forgot to send the memo to our group. We had some pretty wild rules arguments in our 1E group. Confusing rules made those worse. Nope, I DMed my first game of 3E with players that had no rules experience at all - they didn't even own the PHB. The session went well, so from my POV the...

It depends on how people present their case. Usually I've seen C&C crowd circle over edition wars threads like vultures, pimping their own game. This combined with the fact that the natural way for saying good things about C&C is to say bad things about 3E at the same time (for some people...

The emperor has no clothes, huh? I always suspected it was just a vocal minority, but damn .. Anyway, I always thought that there was something inherently wrong in a game if its best features couldn't be explained without putting down another game. It makes it seem that the makers spent time...

It's a bug, not a feature, no matter what the rose colored glasses tell you. More usually DMs didn't intentionally customize a rule because it was confusing; they just got it wrong and didn't realize it. This lead to quite a few (even more) unreasonable situations for the characters (the...

How are the players supposed to know when an NPC is speaking to them in the "DM voice" and that they should take the hint, or whether the NPC is in cahoots with the baddies and wants them to fail? I mean, if somebody tried to get my PC not to do the job I was hired to do, I would be...

When you're calculating your WFRP (which uses exploding dice) Free Lance's damage output, you want to get your bragging rights correct, no matter how infinite the calculations :cool:

More like preaching to the choir. It's the nerds that'll be eating up that tech week stuff, and they already know D&D :]