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Hey, me too! I don't plan much of anything, but you should really consider at least the basics, if nothing more than a scrap on a piece of paper or mental notes. A lot of things are basically binary, especially when the climax of the campaign is "Either you win or you don't." For example, if...

Yeah, something's got to give. If she's only halfway interested in playing, and making the game less fun for everybody else, then you need to talk to your DM. Since it's his wife, you'd better be fairly careful, but I'd be surprised if he didn't notice as well. People with wives/girlfriends can...

I've got a couple quick things to say, cause I'm cool like that. 1) If you don't want your players to fail, then don't set the stakes up high. 2)Clever adventure planners plan for their players' failure, also. Where in the adventure does it say, "The players fight Orcus; make him beatable so...

I think it's a silly marketing gimmick that's attempting to camoflague a blatant money-grab, and one that's going to fade fast. That's all.

I think that publishing errata is a poor excuse for getting it right the first time. In software, constant updates are generally a sign of either an amateur studio or of poor software design. The games need to be fun and playable with a minimum of "hotfixes", at least if you're paying money for...

Plus it discourages doing anything other than just standing there and attacking- not very exciting. I personally tinker all over the place for my games. A quick list of things I've done recently to play around with Labyrinth Lord: 1)Moved all casters from Vancian to one of three magic systems...

Not to quibble, because I really like this discussion, but AD&D is pretty easy to throw together decent homebrew quickly. See, all you do is think of a place like Freeport, "borrow" some major NPCs in, who each have needs and organizations... It's even easier inside your head than on a computer...

Why are you buying all of those books and all of those products? Do you realize that they're going to be cheaper in a year when the "craze" has died down a bit? Reminds me of people who rushed out and stood in line to pay $500 for iPhones, and then they were mad when the price dropped to half...

I'll second what the poster above me says about forgetting what you know about the Baldur's Gate games- they're based off of 2nd edition AD&D, I believe. Excellent games, by the way. 4e's tone is fairly different than AD&D's, what with it being a more "over-the-top" system. In AD&D your...

It's always fun to subvert tropes, especially ones that are as common as "retake this place from these evil people." The world's not in black and white, so why should your gaming be? ;)

19. My THAC0 is 19, luckily, so I'm pretty sure I hit you. :)

As long as you express your character as a justification for your abilities, that is. One of the big draws of choosing a rules-light system is that you can have an effective character and an unusual one, without sacrificing combat effectiveness for quirkiness. You can have a bumpkin turnip...

I like how Mazes and Minotaurs requires that different kinds of characters get experience from different things: i.e. Warrior-types got experience for defeating big and bad monsters, but wizardly types got experience for discovering secrets. I don't remember how hunter-type guys got experience...

I'm not a big fan of High Fantasy in general, and of D&D inspired fantasy in particular. In other words, the Forgotten Realms feels like it's D&D extrapolated to an extraordinary degree instead of a simulacrum, if you will, of medieval history viewed through a D&D-tinted lense. Everything in the...

Kalamazoo, anyone?

Let me tell you what I do. When introducing a new group to D&D, I start just like in B/X D&D and slap them in a dungeon. It's easy, it gets everybody familiar with the mechanics and the group interaction and the way the game feels and plays. By the time they're done in the dungeon, the real...

I think it's interesting as well, and honestly reminds me of an unusual psychological phenomenon. It is, essentially, that people who are in the danger of losing the most try and proselytize more people, so that their position is more "right" than the others. It's long been a feature of most...

Who said anything about them resting safely? Wandering monsters, money pressures, and a need to get stuff done helps limit the extra resting. But that doesn't mean that players aren't attempting to rest after every combat, or that they aren't right in wanting to. In my mind, when the system...

Ignoring the little squabble that's broken out, I dislike full attacks because, again, they encourage players to stand there and trade blows. All you do is attack a couple more times. Oh, how exciting! It essentially discourages attacking, since the attacking combatant gets only one attack...

I was helping one of my buddies out, as he was concerned about the running portion of the test, and he was trying to get into Basic Training. I'd never had a problem with the runs, so I helped him out. His version was about not needing cheeseburgers and milkshakes and stuff. Running makes you...