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Yes, I wonder when it was decided that wizards were somehow broken in 3E. From what I remember seeing in the past, it was supposed to have been clerics - or druids - that were the class that was too powerful in 3.x. Wizards have certainly not seemed broken in any of my games. Yes, there are...

It's not that hard. All you need is a lot of those triangular plastic pizza "tents" that you sometimes see in pizzas. Stack 'em up and you can get height levels. You can even fit multiple minis in the same stack at different levels. It works great (until someone kicks the table and knocks...

I wonder why the name change from grapple?

Grapple is a daily power option for fighters. Just kidding. I haven't heard or read anything on 4E grapple. Guess we'll know more on the 6th.

Stay in one square for the entire battle? I think people must have been playing a different 3.x game than we've been playing for the past 8 years. I'd say that type of play should also get people in trouble in a well run game of any version of D&D. Yea, I'd have to agree with this. I think the...

In my 3.5 games, it seems as if the rogues are getting their sneak attacks with great regularity - not just towards the end of an encounter. Of course, it might help that I generally eschew the recommended encounter build guidelines so my encounters tend to last much longer than the norm -...

I only experienced both of those adventures from the player side, and I would have to agree with you that Forge of Fury was pretty bad - we never finished it and this effectively ended that campaign. However, we did really enjoy the Sunless Citadel. I rather liked the twig blights and the...

Interesting. Without actually seeing the adventure, I'm not sure what the complaint over the stat blocks and tactical setup was. From reading other notes in this thread, I'm guessing they've stuck with a similar approach to what they did with the Ravenloft 3E adventure, Demonweb Pits, Eyes of...

Heh. I always had pretty good names for my characters (and usually a back story), but I do have to confess that some folks in those games relied on random name generators we wrote in BASIC on the old Commodore Pet and at its worse, there were a few players who went with names like 'Timex' and...

Flimsy? Are you talking about the AD&D (1E) monster manual or something else? I know that at least one of my old 1E monster manuals (I probably have 4 or so) is kinda bent from heavy use and someone sitting on it too many times, but I never really thought of it as being flimsy. I can't...

Yes, I ran that adventure and it was a huge hit with our gaming group. I assume you are talking about the one where the players are shipwrecked from a slaver ship and end up having to deal with rival groups of goblin and orcish pirates looking for treasure? I thought for a while about...

The game sessions I think I enjoyed the most as a player were old 1st level games (AD&D/1E games) where everything was deadly and we survived by being smart and sneaky. Bad things would happen when we screwed up and it was exciting knowing that death was but a single blow away. But that was...

I wouldn't be too concerned about AVG Free. I have it installed on a number of my computers. It's a pretty good anti-virus program and hasn't caused me any problems in the 3+ years I've been using it. Although it is strange that the tech installed an anti0virus computer without talking to you...

Those minis would be perfect for the Freeport serpent folk!

I really can't see this. I just went through a few hours trying to help some old friends who last played only 1E up to 3E and they had problems with even little things like the ability scores being in a different order than in 1E. I just couldn't see convincing them to try something even...

I was just running the original trology myself and I used a mix of Yuan-ti and ophidians for my serpent folk.

I was just debating that this week - whether to continue with my 3.5 Freeport/Eberron campaign or switch to trying the Pathfinder RPG (no plans for 4E at this point other than perhaps picking up Keep on the Shadowfell and giving it a test with the quick play rules sometime down the road). In...

One player in my games would sometimes take the feat, but I would take the time to work the new NPC logically into the campaign. It never really caused any problems i my games. Now if everyone had taken the feat, that might have been a different story. In another game, I allowed one character...

Yes, those rules were definitely in AD&D (1E). I still get a chuckle out of the time one player started a fight with the large group of rebelling orc slaves in the dungeons of the Hill Giant Chief. The instigating player was counting on his 8 or 9 attacks per round to deal with the angered...

I also try to keep close to the PC generation rules, but to save time I start taking short cuts. The only cases where I don't take short cuts is if the NPC travels with the players on their adventures. In those cases, I don't cut corners. But for most other NPCs, even big wig spell casting...