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In fact, they could have been written about almost any game, because "fun" is, whatever some marketing guys might say, a relative concept. To me, Call of Cthulhu, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Bunnies & Burrows, D&D4e, Pathfinder and the oWoD are fun, although they're very different "funs", and they...

Mmmm... Lord of the Rings, Stormbringer, Song of Fire and Ice, Harry Potter... to name a few :P

In D&D, we've seen upgrades and new games. We could say that there have been different "branches": * OD&D - Homes - B/X - BECMI - RC - (BFRP) * 1e - 2e - 2e with player's options - (HackMaster) - (C&C) * 3e - 3.5 - (Pathfinder) * 4e Of course, not every "upgrade" is actually seen as an...

It really depends on where and how is the town. For your standard village in the middle of nowhere, just 1st-level warrior with a couple 2nd-3rd-lvl warriors and a 4th-level fighter as sheriff. In big cities, mostly 1st-2nd level fighters with a 4-th level fighter/rogue as sergeant. In places...

... and hear the lamentations of their goblin wives :D (That damned Thistletop room marked me forever)

- A more detailed skill system. The fall back to NWP was a big step backwards IMO. - More variety between classes. I feel like they're all more or less the same (powers that almost always are "X damage and side effect Y"). - Revised hp for monsters and minion rules. In the 4e combats I've played...

And exactly which ones are the "adventure" tasks? The problem is that "adventure" has been redefined as "dungeon crawling", and there are many more things that make up for a good story (and a good game, too). Haggling with merchants, running keeps or domains, equipping and managing militia men...

I have a 3.5 (Pathfinder) campaign going on, and from time to time a do LL/RC (whichever book I happen to have at hand at the moment) one-shot, live or online. Also, I'm a teacher, and I often use LL as well as Risus and Fudge to run games in class (I teach English to Spanish students, and rpgs...

Basic D&D (being it B/X, BECMI, RC, LL or whatever fancy acronym you stumble upon) is in fact a very different beast that 3e/4e. While the WotC's D&Ds are more focused on tactical options and blockbuster combat, BD&D is more of an imagination game, a "do whatever you want and wing it on the...

Thanks for telling me that I'm not having fun. Without your advice, I'd never had known that the things I think spice up a story are in fact "something wrong" :P

So you have the worst of both worlds: in some cases it makes no difference, and in some others it makes no sense. Way to go :P That's it, you have to create PC-centered stories so the rules can make any sense. Because what you said for Lidda the Rogue is also applicable to Brightscale the...

3e: 10th level wizard: BAB +5 Str +0. Total bonus: +5 to hit, +0 to damage. 1st level fighter: BAB +1, Str +3, Weapon Focus +1. Total bonus: +5 to hit, +3 to damage. 4e: 15th level wizard: level +7, Str +0, Dagger +3. Total bonus: +10 to hit, +0 to damage. 1st level fighter: level +0, Str +3...

But then, why have any level bonus at all? If you're going to present your PCs with challenges balanced to their level/efectiveness, to add +1 to bonuses and to DCs is just redundant. Wouldn't it be better just giving them the bonuses at 1st level and that's all? Because if bonuses and DCs (I'm...

You have to imagine 4e PCs as something similar to Dragonball characters: they're more than human, they're freakin' heroes, and that'd what the game is about now. So it's not a problem or a unexpected hole in the rules: the 1/2 level bonus to everything reflects exactly the intended result...

A suggestion: don't change the rules. Clarify, yes. Add errata, yes. Change, never. So you could have attack bonuses and ascending AC because it doesn't change the maths (I'd go for the S&W take of providing THAC0 and Attack Bonus, as well as ascending/descending AC, and let the user choose)...

Much, appreciated, tha... I mean, What are you suggesting? Saying that I'm wrong, as if I were a school kid who failed to do his homework! Oh, I feel so insulted! :D

I've said it before in other threads: 4e is a very different game from 3.x. Both are D&D because both have fighters, wizards and clerics who kill monsters, take their stuff and advance in levels, and that's enough for me. And, although I generally prefer 3.x (or PFRPG) to 4e, I think it's a...

And that's why we all should be glad there're different editions of the game and nobody forces us to play one or another ;) Seriously, although I'm not much of a 4e fan, I find very positive that it's out and that it's not "3.75". Different games (and I think BD&D, AD&D, 3.x and 4e are...

I liked Chill as a non-lovecraftian horror rpg. Besides that, I've more or less always played mainstream games (D&D, CoC, WoD), and apart from the couple of Spanish titles which I have found better (IMO) substitutes for (a humour game which I've replaced with Risus and a superheroes one which...