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The poll is indeed flawed, but to be honest, I'm not sure any poll would make the question justice short of letting the person who answers come up with his or her own option polls. Personally, for instance, I cannot stand a story/narrative approach. That basically destroys the enthusiasm I...

Wish I was there. Have some fun, guys. :)

D&D is not fantasy literature, it's a role playing game. Fantasy novels are not role playing games. Wizards and Fighters are as (un)balanced in my D&D games as the players believe they are. What matters is what the characters (and thus the players) do, and how they do it. The number on the...

I chose "other option." If I was running Dark Sun at this point (which I like), I would take the first boxed set, and basically pillage the John Carter series of Edgar Rice Burroughs to customize it, and then run it with 1st edition AD&D rules. In effect, it would look like a blend of Dark...

Also of interest to this discussion: The magical number seven.

One argument I see popping up in various discussions of the state of Wizards of the Coast and D&D is the idea that the company is basically moving from a traditional print business format to an electronic, subscription-based one. Along with this argument, there are various claims being made...

Oh my Lord! I gave this precise subject a lot of thought as I prepared by current AD&D First Ed campaign set in Ptolus in 431 IA, and still do now as I am running it. I will have to print this out and read it with attention. I'll comment there, if there is anything I have to say once my reading...

It might be for some people, absolutely. I think that's another area where the particulars of the game group and what really makes people "tick" around the game table will be very important. There's a sense of what people expect, and what they want out of their gaming, that you can develop...

Absolutely! Complete agreement! I remember the very first time I was playing role playing games. My much older brother was playing the game with a bunch of cousins and got bored. He just left the game. I basically begged the DM to let me take over the character. I was eight years old. I remember...

For me, it'll entirely depend on the persons I'm introducing RPGs to. I was answering that question elsewhere, from my point of view, when asked whether I let the dice fall where they may or fudge when I play with beginners. Here's what I answered: To answer your question more directly, Durn...

Both very good points, Jerome. I share your experience, in the sense that most, though not all, of the people I've gamed with over the years were people I shared other interests with. They were not necessarily 'friends' in the strictest of senses when we started gaming, but we did socialize...

Hey Wik! Thanks for the feedback, mate. I'm on an Aboriginal reserve on a small island right in the middle of the Central Coast of BC. Fairly isolated area, but great people around here (and I still managed to form a gaming group! ;) ). My in-laws live in Port Coquitlam. I'm not sure which place...

My interest in LEGO is popping up in my conversation on a much lesser regular basis than my interest in role playing games. Probably because I don't have buckets of colorful bricks on display on various shelves and pieces of furniture around my living room. :lol:

I introduced RPGs to the kids I knew in primary school. I was the president of my high school role playing club, was part of role playing associations during my University years, organized RPG events for city-sponsored youth events and fairs in Bar-le-Duc, France, and more generally, as far as...

Those people hopefully will recognize themselves.

Stop ranting about how much AD&D sucks, that magic users are "broken," that "level limits don't make any sense," that the game is "horribly unbalanced," and all that sort of insane nonsense, and then maybe maybe other people will stop comparing your game to MMOs, or a non-RPG boardgame, or...

To me there are different ways to answer this question. The biggest changes in the rules of the game came with Third Edition D&D, if you consider that 4e is a refinement and extreme focus of basic d20 principles that came into play with Third Ed. In terms of feel of the game, however, the...

I'm guessing -just guessing- that Diamond Cross has more in mind with that belief of his that everyone who plays D&D is abnormal, and that normal people view D&D as something abnormal, that he is letting us know. I'm guessing there's some past history here, but I don't really know, so I won't...

Absolutely.

Absolutely.