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The illustration of the halfling is awful. And it frightens me. His face is just strangely creepy.

Art is very important to me. Art is one of the reasons I'm not so sure about 4e--I don't know why, I just don't like most of the art in the main books. I definitely prefer Lockwood over... is O'Connor the dude who did a lot of the 4e art, or am I making it up? I still like the older edition...

My campaign is a really simple, for the most part: mysterious plague has hit the area, local Baron doesn't really care about the infirm, evil wizard locked in a deep dungeon beneath the earth has caused it and has also had the king of a rival country kidnapped to help start a war. So far the...

List of things that are awesome: Dungeons Dragons Dungeons and Dragons Dice Tavern Wenches Big Tough Guys with Swords Cheetos Various cheeses Game stores Battlemats No Battlemats Robots Zombies Skeletons with swords, spears and/or bows and arrows stupid kobolds cackling goblins a kobold shaman...

You know, recently I was thinking of making up a monster whose whole interior was dungeon for some reason. But then I decided that did not make sense and was stupid. But maybe not!

The other day for fun and as a thought experiment/exorcise I was considering making up my own, home made game system. After about half an hour of thought, I figured screw it. I don't think I'm much of a game designer at heart. But I was wondering, how many of you have attempted to make up your...

D&D is pretty awesome, I'll grant ye that. But which is more awesome: the dungeons or the dragons ?

If I were ever going to do a 3.x game again (which I suppose is entirely possible), this is what I would have as core: Standard 3--PHB, DMG, MM MM 2 Book of Iron Might Complete Book of Eldritch Might Book of Hallowed Might Unearthed Arcana I guess that's it. Though, if I ever were to run a...

Just from my experience: 1e: The books are so disorganized and jumbled that I feel like finding a starting place in the game is hard. The disjointed and disorganized nature of the DMG alone is enough to keep me away. 2e: Never played it. Sounds rather bland, and all of the various sourcebooks...

Well, our Rules Cyclopedia game has been going well. It works well for now, when I don't have the time to plan any good 4e adventures due to finals next week. Since I don't plan for RC, we can just play whenever everyone has the time. Their plan now is to take on the Orc King himself after...

That was mainly the first random phrase I thought of when I tried to figure out what to use as a sig. I think it was because I had recently read Owen's famous poem. I suppose it's fitting, though, with tomorrow being Armistice/Remembrance/Veteran's Day and all. But anyway

That's a cool idea, and I may use it if my players start getting too frustrated. For now I think I'm going to do my best to play the game by the book for the most part. I've read most of Keep on the Borderlands, and while I do like it a lot, I don't know how much of it I'm going to use. I...

So we just finished our second RC game. This time I had my players roll up their own characters--a dwarf and a magic user. I did some minor plot set-up with the characters being exiles from a nearby kingdom after the old king died and his son took over. I set them up in the same village they...

Graphs of popularity of various things are often referred to as being battleship shaped. The idea being that at first a few people know about it, but gradually more and more people do, and it's really popular, and then the population of people who enjoy/perform/do whatever it is gets smaller and...

I bought the gift set and my players each bought a player's handbook without complaining, which was a first ("too much money!" et cetera, et cetera). Buying the Fourth Edition books also inspired me to start buying books of the older editions too. Not that that really means anything. But all...

Thanks for the info about LL. I'll still probably get it (partly just to support the idea!) but it doesn't seem like as much of a necessity, but it'd certainly be nice to have. I apologize that so much of this thread has been me just asking questions. I have another one, though: Do I really...

That might be a contributing factor, sure. Certainly it was fun because it was different and everyone did whatever they wanted without concern for the consequences. The session was just kind of an out of the blue, "hey, you guys want to try this out and kill some goblins or something?" kind of...

Exactly. They can't just go and reprint it all again. They lay out books completely different now days, I imagine. They'd have to completely redo all of it. That would cost a ton of cash. A ton of cash they probably wouldn't see come back to them. Not that I wouldn't buy said books if they...

Oh, one more observation about the RC game: The fact that the encounters aren't premade and can just be random. A lot in my 4e and old 3e games I found that when they players were getting their butt whooped they would think along the lines of, "man, this encounter isn't balanced." It doesn't...

I'll just get the individual modules. What exactly is in B1? If it is just a dungeon without monsters placed yet, what else is there? Also one more question: what should I keep in mind if I decide to attempt to use AD&D material with my RC stuff? A while back I bought the old 1e Monster Manual...