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Last time I DMed 3.x was a week ago, and I had a great time. 3e is a great game. It has its warts though. Last time I DMed 1e was about three weeks ago, and I had a great time. 1e is a great game. It has its warts (much more so than 3e). I'm very excited about 4e. I plan to "switch", but I'll...

In my opinion, minion rules are a logical extension of a good rule of game design: "Complexity should be proportional to the interest of the players." For instance, most mass battle rules do not track hit points of individual soldiers, because no one is interested in the fate of any individual...

Or: How I Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Hong

Korgoth wins! Fatality!

4e is U4! 8 character classes... cloth armor... reagents...... ettins... uhhh... hot air balloons?

This is D&D! Things don't magically transform!!

Perhaps Arcpok the Unwise is the wisest..... of us all? [camera pans back, credits roll]

I gotta go with Lizard on this one. While I think he did it to prove the absurdity of the minions concept, Lizard has shown to my satisfaction that a high-level encounter with some mammoth minions could be Pretty Awesome™. This use of minions is justified, in my mind, by the Rule of Cool...

Oh, I just got confused because you said "4e works on the Ninja Rule" instead of "D&D works on the Ninja Rule". I personally have no problem with the PCs fighting mammoth minions, as long as the PCs are high enough level to make normal mammoths routine. Others may disagree, of course. You're...

I think they should have changed it so that it only gave you 1 standard action ;)

Fair enough. I misunderstood what you meant by "roleplaying XP". I think the way you define it in your last post, it's perfectly consonant with 1e. It sounds like it's just a positive construction of the many 1e penalties for not acting correctly for your class/alignment.

So does 3e. Are you forgetting that 3e has encounter level guidelines for constructing encounters? That's not new with 4e. If your 3e DM throws 15 ninjas at you, you can guess that they're a lot lower-level than if he throws 1 ninja at you. Or is your argument that 3e is so much worse at...

I guess Superman was normal until his dad fired him off to Earth, but that stretches it even for me :D

I gotta say, Lizard, I like your reductio-ad-absurdum wooly mammoth scenario. I think it sounds Kickin'. Throw a couple of velociraptors on motorcycles and you've got something. If the heroes are sufficiently high-level that they could conceivably take a wooly mammoth one-on-one without too...

I absolutely think the 1e quote definition of "role" is more like the 4e "class role" rather than "acting role". Pretending to be your guy was always in there, of course, but the thespianic style came to the forefront, I believe, during the late 80's, if the bulletin board discussions and...

I can think of a couple: -Billy Batson is just an ordinary newspaper boy until the wizard Shazam gives him the wisdom of Solomon; the strength of Hercules; the stamina of Atlas; the power of Zeus; the courage of Achilles; and the speed of Mercury. -Peter Parker is an ordinary high school...

The rules actually specify that the experience be split evenly. Which, come to think of it, is not a great match for a campaign where quests are secret and atcrosspurposes. "Player A tricked Player B into revealing his identity! That's 100 XP for player A and 100 xp for player B!" So perhaps my...

Not a bad idea to do at character creation, if you like an intrigue-type game.

To be fair, the DMG passage quoted was not about awarding extra XP, but penalizing players who didn't fulfill their class roles by making them spend extra time and money before they could level up in their class. 1e was generally less concerned with "thespianic roleplaying" and more with...

Credit where credit is due! I have been ever vigilant about the stale pastries issue. -Rex "Voted Most Likely to Take a Hard Line about the Damage Done by Flung Food" Blunder