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Blue book, a human wizard by the name of Mathagen or Radagast (I forget). The party came across some orcs and I defeated them with my might spells of legend! (Sleep) Later, we came across a ghoul and I was paralyzed. When the giant ants marched, I was left behind to prop the door closed. By the...

Yeah, the first one is fascinating but you have to be into political struggles. I struggled through Dune Messiah and bored to tears with Children of Dune. I've read Chapterhouse Dune but it feels incomplete. Which is appropriate since the story was going to be finished, or at least continued, in...

Sort of. I started tinkering to make guilds for fighters and thieves for a B/X game. It never really materialized. These abilities were gained at 1st, 4th and 7th level. The theme was first was a +1 to something, second was a trick that they could trade an attack for, third was a 1/day power...

Well, that order was not entirely by accident. It is interesting that you mention it ressembles C&C as I don't have any of the books. I thought the d20 modern game was kind of silly, smart hero, strong hero &c. But, as I was looking over the RC and deciding how I was going to adapt it, I...

The druid as clr/thf and the bard being the ftr/thf/mu is growing on me. As I opened up my word doc to tinker with making the changes I was overwhelmed with the effort that it would take. Statting up 6 more classes and breaking the theme I already had. Arg. I may just stay with my six (Ftr...

Yes, it seemed to me to be much less work to uplift RC rather than reassemble 1e. Ehh, I chose "witchblade" more because of the comic than anything else. It sounds better to my ear. Mechanicly I would look at the elf and the magebladde from Arcana Evolved, arguably the best ftr/mu class to come...

No, C&C never really cliced for me. Is there a non-torrent site it can viewed from? Very interesting. It gives another reason why the locals were afraid of Aragorn. After staring for a while at the town drunk giving him lip, Aragorn's backhand knocked him cold for two days. I think I'd like it...

Thinking about classes I've been tinkering with D&D for a while and wanting to "fix" 1e to run a game for some 9-12 y.o. kids at a community center. I actually liked some of the simplicity of the Rules Compendium / BX set that I decided it would be better for me to start there and work my way...

Yowza. "He would be presented with a variety of choices", indeed. They need to do some research on Visuit, now. And, an unexpected benefit of working today.

Heh, no. The adventure arc was four months. The campaign was about 3 years. I think they gained 1-2 levels in the arc. I know the wizard did, he used a silver libram right after he earned 17th level. And, man, did he use wish creatively. Yes, but it was difficult to integrate with the other...

That's because it was a pick-up, not a ~4 month adventure with characters having significant personal investment. I absolutely understand that very few people or campaigns get to that point. But, having it built into the system made it very rewarding once we reached that point.

Absolutely. Having a system that can accomidate Taran from the pig farm and scale all the way up to Gilgamesh challenging the gods themselves is important to me. The battle with Tiamat I mentioned previously makes me smile even now, 20+ years later. I think that particular group started around...

You have a point. The main difference is that a level limit is an expiration date. Only if the campaign ends a couple of levels after the level limit is it meaningful. Otherwise it's irrelevant. True. After the party took out Tiamat and her consorts in an epic 3-4 session adventure that's what...

that's something that I tinkered with but I couldn't come up with an elegant system for it. I definately wanted for the higher level spells something like: Flesh to Stone Success - No effect Equivocal - Slowed Failure - Petrified Lower level spells would either have the simple two level...

Oh, no. Our game ditched those before 2e was a twinkle in anyone's eye. It's not useful. If the campaign runs for 6 levels before the scenario plays out or there's a TPK, then the level limits are meaningless. If the campaign runs to 20th level then everyone plays humans or people switch out...

This part lost me.

Santa might be bringing me a copy so I haven't bought it yet.

Grippli are cool. I don't think I would ever play one but the thought does make me smile. I want githyanki, of course. For intelligent animals, I could see having Trufflehunter the Badger in the party. That would be an interesting option.

I guess the difference is the level of effort on the DM's to write and the player's to read. I remember one page for skills, two for a gods list, about 6-7 for the retooled psionics system incorporating the article mentioned above and one page for experience point / multiclassing rules. What we...

I'm with you on skills. If I'm going to use a class based system, I think I want the heroes to not sweat the easy stuff and the class to do the heavy lifting in that department. I tinkered with psionics a lot too. There was an article that expanded psionics in a non-Dragon publication (I think)...