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I voted other. Technically, it should be played earlier editions, but... The first day I played any RPG it was me and a couple of friends from work. One had bought these two 'new' games, Basic D&D and Traveller. The two of us who didn't own them made D&D characters and played for a bit, til...

Quoted foor truth, even if it is a bit late to off the character... probably.

I voted for not playing Paladins in the first place. The problem is as much one of mis-communication as anything. Everyone knows there's a line that can't be crossed, but unless the player and GM sit down beforehand and nail where that line is down solid... Most of the Paladin-crossing-the-line...

You are assuming that the characters will use the bridge. You'd have to drag me onto it! One good gust of wind and over you go. No thanks!

Note that it came in various sizes. Call a short one a dagger and a long one a sword. The same is true of other weapons, such as the katar. As for the question, I turn my head and look at the nearly 700 page "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries...

You expect D&D rules to make sense, or their writers to pay any attention to? ROFLMAO!!!

How much downtime? Depends on how much the PCs need/want. Depending on what game is being played, and how, it can be used for training, making things, business opportunities, etc. XP may, or may not be given out, depending on what the PCs are doing. One thing I do in my games, which I haven't...

A tog-o-war with a mud pit between the competing teams. This is fair and lets the Sorcerer/Wizard(s) shine... maybe. (Prestidigitation can be most useful here.)

Gotta have a midway and/or contests. Archery, axe/dart/knife toss, wrestling, some kind of magic and skill contests. Make sure that there is something for each character's area of expertise (or as close to one as you can get) so they'll each have a chance of winning a prize. It doesn't really...

How do you figure this? As has already been observed, comics and movies do it all the time. Even more to the point, who can keep up with all the name/border changes of countries in the RL? :cool:

That's how I voted, for the same reasons.

This, of course, is metagaming on the rules/GM's part. When one of our players showed up as a Poverty Dude we said: "Ok, he doesn't get a share of the treasure." The GM pointed out the rule. Our response? "Why?" He still hasn't come up with a good answer. (I do not consider the offical reason to...

You, sir, are a Rat Bastard GM. Having been on the recieving end of a very similar experience, if it ever happens again I (not my character, me) will get up and leave. You can sit there and chuckle all you want, for me it's just hours of wasted game time and utter frustration. In other words...

I only ever played using the original rules, and not often or long. However, the first character I rolled up did die as the result of the last character creation roll. So it's no urban legend! (But he was promptly ressurected and that rule junked so we could actually play the game.) Things I...

Having seen how utterly frustrating player mapping can be from spoken descriptions (Hey, we can see the friken corridor/room!), I just draw stuff out on the battlemat and let the players draw their own map or not, as they see fit. As for secret rooms and such, yeah it happens sometimes. But as...

What he said! ;)

I didn't vote. Loved it as a kid (50s-60s), but since I can't go Trick or Treating any more... :confused:

Our GM ran us through this year's Halloween adventure tonight. (Well, technically, last night now. :eek: ) We're currently doing the 3.5 version of ToEE and the characters had gone back to Verbabonk at the end of the last session. On our way back we were attacked at night by a Flesh Golum...

"It's Let's Pretend with rules that you play around a table." If they want more info I try to oblige with basic stuff. (Making a character with STR, INT, etc. Fighting monsters. And as much as they'll let me talk, including a quick example of play.)

That's all very well, but what about the Player who's lousy at solving puzzles and such? Then, too, there are those times when everyone at the table has a brain fart. At one time, with a group of intelligent/smart players, we spent hours trying to work out a puzzle that we knew we had all the...