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I had a very Xanthian adventure once, where everything I could think of was either toilet humor, a pun, or otherwise very naughty. As an example, they once found a Horn of Plenty of Sausage. Delightful, I know. Hey, I was 15! :P

I dislike battle-mats, and miniatures in my role-playing game. Anything more than a dry-erase board for complex fights is far too much "fiddly bits" for me. This comes from a man who loves Descent: JitD (the reigning champion of fiddly-bit-having games), so it's not just me being codgy.

I DM and feel bad when a character dies. It's almost always as a result of plain bad play, but sometimes it's a result of horrible luck. My players tend to be cautious and so they don't die much, but I still feel bad when they do kick the bucket. As a player, I don't mind death so much. I like...

Just a quick aside: How can somebody refuse a netbook and then get an iPad? The imagination boggles. On topic: I used to use this one free program that was written in Python, although it did force things to a grid. Also, I second MapTools.

I do the same thing, except I write modules and games and stuff that nobody reads. Only recently have I gotten the idea to publish it- before that, I'd just detail worlds and draw maps that I never really thought anybody would even want to see before the advent of Twitter and good ol' blogging...

Probably ZeFRS, although I might be able to swing it so that's no longer true. ZeFRS is such an elegant game system it makes me jealous. Why couldn't I have come up with something that simple and that powerful?

Why on earth would you want to solve their problem for them? If they don't bother to check their map against the landmarks on the map, then they deserve to get lost. That's what happens to people in real life, you know. So do what Cor_Malek suggests. When they run into a river that isn't...

The 1999 boxed set was my first actual D&D product. I was into freeform roleplaying before that with my friends. We were young enough to run around and pretend we were dudes from board games and computer games and stuff. Good times...

I'm always taken in by mountains, especially forested mountains. It's probably a throwback to my childhood in Vermont, where it seemed like absolutely anything could happen on and under them because they were so big and mysterious. It's the same reason that dungeons tend to be found on the...

This seems like an unfair question, to be honest, akin to asking people how D&D fares past 30th level. But it's probably fine. After a certain point, your character would have all sorts of tertiary skills and abilities and stuff, and that's more or less what would happen anyways. But when you...

But does anybody ever fight to lose? And do people like getting hurt? Fanatical death-priests may not care for their own death, but it doesn't mean that they don't realize they're more useful to their gods alive rather than dead. We do have people that are convinced that after their death they...

I don't see how this can possibly be a problem. 1) What's wrong with the players mopping stuff up? They're demigods in their own rights, and deserve to eat everything that stands before them. You trying to kill them is kind of silly. If you don't like playing the game, then let them know. But...

Everybody knows my opinion by now: The best rules are the older ones. There's no reason to limit yourself to 3.5 or 4e, when both are needlessly complicated and overly reliant on rules, especially for new players. But it depends on where you're coming from. If your group is wargamers first...

It all goes in your head. Nothing says that you have to use miniatures for anything unless you absolutely, one hundred per cent all want to. Nothing at all. I personally depise the use of miniatures at the table- it never works for me, and makes the battles seem more static than they should. If...

The best thing to determine what the monster's tactics is to play to their strengths, which is what any monster, regardless of its intelligence, would do. If you've got a band of orcs, they're going to use their animalistic rage and probably not a lot of sublety. If you've got some drow, you...

@ The OP: That is possibly the silliest story of overt powergaming I've heard all week. Bravo! I think? To continue the story: I wish you could have been around to look at Wizards' original character optimization board. The subversions, perversions, and all-around twisting of the rules was so...

Also, holy crap, you triple posted. For shame.

Banned wizard? Really? Also, I'm going to assume that you're talking about 3rd edition and not 2e or 1e or oD&D or BECMI or any of the other games that are also included in the legacy forum. Play a Cleric or Druid. They're awesome buffers. Or you could play a Sorcerer, I guess. I dunno.

Lemme give a quick bit of fact: If you're rolling a save or die, that's a generosity on the part of the DM. You're lucky to even get a chance to live, that's how bad you messed up. You should be dead, but maybe luck will give you a bit of leeway. Examples: If you're fighting a Medusa straight...

I, personally, ignore game awards because I'm an idiosyncratic gamer. I don't really care if everybody else in the world likes Shadowrun and Pathfinder, as the EnWorld awards show, because neither of those games provide the game experience that I prefer. I know that, which is why they're...