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I agree, Philotomy. MY way of determining intitiative is very simple, o new intitiate to the One True System. Have your player's elected spokesman roll 1d6. 1-3 gives the party intiative, 4-6 gives the monster initiative. roll 1d6 again, and 1-3 means the party without intiative is surprised...

d02 know no limit! :D Actually, I agree that D&D3e is not D&D anymore. It's still a a game with it's own merits and drawbacks, but one of the nice things about all the older editions is that with minimal effort they can all be run simultaneously. I've been doing it for years. WOTC is selling a...

No, no, no, you misunderstand me! I've been arguing that no edition fosters rules arguments more than others. I mentioned that I prefer AD&D because I didn't want to confuse anyone. I feel that DM's who are unwilling to exert authority occasionally and players who are unwilling to accept a DM's...

To be honest, I haven't changed much in regard to how I run games as much as added to it. I liked Chaosium's SAN stat, yoink! Hackmaster's improvement of stats was a little fast for my taste, but every three levels allowing percentile roll could work. Yoink! Oooh, Dragonfist has a wuxia ability...

Hussar, I wouldn't be offended. I would tell you to not let the door hit ya on the way out. :D I don't suffer from a shortage of players, so if folks don't lke the way I play, I tell them maybe we can have a beer sometime over a movie, but I ain't changing a system that has worked for 16 years...

I do feel that the current edition is a little too much like miniature wargaming, and I'm not surprised by that at all. WOTC's biggest sellers for a long time were games like Mage Knight and Magic: The Gathering. They took tried and tested formulas and ran with them. That's good marketing and a...

Damn right. I host the game, I buy the beer and snacks, I take on the responsibility of keeping track of a whole world, I respect the character as the domain of the player (barring in game occurences like magic), I take on the responsibility of arbiter and go through the trouble of reading the...

Why not just write those rules? I did. It isn't hard. A DM needs good judgement, common sense, and impartiality. If you're literate and understand the system well enough to wield it effectively, it doesn't take anymore time than it takes to post on the internet, so a lack of available time isn't...

Seems kind of metagame-y to me. Of course, I don't use the weapons speeds. I wasn't aware commoner was a class in AD&D :D

Beautiful, Frank. Just beautiful. See, the player's aren't the ones who should be arguing the rules. The player's don't have a say in the ref's rulings. The 3e-raised kids that play in my AD&D game every week have to be reminded of this occasionally, as they think that they know everythign...

Everyone who is pointing you in the direction of Savage World is right. So many SW products are very Indiana Jones-esque. When you say pulp, there's alot of stuff you could be referring to.

Glad to help! :D I started playing AD&D when i was about 7 years old, back in 89. By all rights I should have been in time for 2e, but my stepdad, who introduced me to the game, played 1e with smatterings of 2e, so that's how i learned. If you want some good module reccommendations, you could...

How hard is it? 1e = first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2e = second edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons other editions of dunegons and dragons are not advanced, therefore they are referred to as what they are called, Basic (B), Expert (X), Rules Cyclopedia (RC), and so forth.

The 1e AD&D DMG is the Julius Ceasar of RPG books. Get it. Discover AD&D, and I guarantee you'll be into it. The book is well written, with lots of room for the DM to customize. It also stresses the power of the DM as opposed to the power of rules lawyers and munchkins, which is really great...

Take a look at www.dragonsfoot.org

I can't wait till i find that Heroes of Battle book so i can convert it to 1e! I've heard good things from other folks who have done this. BATTLESYSTEM and CHAINMAIL are the two best, in my opinion, They are very in depth, though. Warhammer comes in close behind. I would reccommend using Hero...

AD&D 1e is the one true system. Everything else is a supplement. Even Hackmaster. :D That sentiment aside, I'll tell you about Hackmaster. Hackmaster is a brutal game based off of 2e AD&D, with 1e and even some older rules thrown in. It also is easily interchangeable with AD&D, like C&C is. It...

I'd say no to the Myconids, myself. If you wanna go with the post-apocalyptic feel, you may wanna mine the 2e Darksun setting for ideas. It has a really raw, gritty feel to it. The Scarred LAnds 3e setting may provide some inspiration as well. A few books for inspirational reading Farnham's...

Take a break from rpg's. Play a board game. MY group has been playing HeroScape and we've been having a blast. Sure, it's a very simplistic "wargame", but it's a blast. There's no DM. Also, The World of Warcraft boardgame is interesting. The rules are a little esoteric at first and i think they...

Maybe the bard could be a vaudevillian standup comic. :D Ha-cha-cha cha-cha