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I still use the 3.0 DMG in 3.5 games because of the optional rules that didn't make it. Its strange how a book with lower page count had more content in it.

Corebooks owned: 4e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual 3.5e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual 3e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual 2e: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monstrous Manual, Monstrous Compendium...

At first I thought that the White Wolf games were special in how they developed story and made it more important than mechanics, but when I went back to D&D the way I ran games changed. I originally ran D&D with a dungeon or wilderness map with a single goal in mind. It wasn't exactly on...

Yes, and it was one of the first conversions I placed in the old conversion library. My initial version was a bit more D&D-like and I think Blue Troll (Blue Troll's Netbooks - Welcome) still has a copy but Google absolutely will not let me get there because it is a listed attack site. My most...

Yes, thank you. That's what I was saying. It wasn't that everyone was tired of D&D and were just waiting for 3rd. The confusion may stem from the fact that Revised came out in 1998, a year after D&D 2nd was officially dead. I still love 2nd Edition and would love to play it again. But I...

To nitpick, 2nd Edition D&D came out in 1989. Vampire the Masquerade 1st Edition came out in 1991. 2nd Edition Vampire the Masquerade came out in 1992. And the revised 2nd Edition Handbooks for D&D didn't come out until 1995, along with the Player's Option Handbooks. The "end of the edition...

Anthony Gallela of Bucephalus Games had written an article (the link is unfortunately dead) that stated that to make a dead tree print run and market a new game you needed about $50,000. I've had a friend put a game on dtrpg.com/rpgnow.com for free.

In games instead of using the best d6 out of several, I just add them together like d20 Star Wars Force Points, so at levels 8-14 you added +2d6, and at levels 15+ you added +3d6. The only problem with using them this way was our player with incredibly bad luck who rolled 1d20 + 3d6 and got a...

Just for the proper use of latin e.g. basically means "look up this reference", i.e. means "for example" which is what is more correct for the above. Gary Gygax taught me that years ago via the 1st Edition AD&D books.

Yep, pretty much how I feel most of the time.

My apologies for the misinterpretation.

Mostly as a kid I just tinkered with D&D. But I got my start because I had a the Mentzer Basic D&D set, the Expert set that went with the Moldvay Edition, the Monsters section torn out of the Holmes Edition along with the Chits, a 1st Edition AD&D PH (later I got a 1st Edition Oriental...

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Most of those are true, except for: -Actually, the 1e Bard was the prototype prestige class. The RC anti-paladin/paladin/druid were based on it. -The General Skills system as per my original post worked exactly like the NWP system, the only differences were the name and the fact that all skills...

I've heard of a theory floating around that the changes in 3rd Edition are based on the D&D Cyclopedia. This fundamentally rests on the more regular ability score chart and the skill system. Of course, this totally ignores the fact that Johnathan Tweet, co-author of Ars Magica, was involved in...

I don't know enough Somali to talk like a pirate.

Mekton uses a conversion of 1 Kill (mecha scale) = 10 Hits (human scale). The CP2020 conversion rules changes this to 1 Kill = 25 Hits. In Mechwarrior since every die you use is a d6, a 6 on a human scale weapon's damage roll is 1/2 a point of 'mech damage.

The margin of error on any Poissonian distribution (which a study like this will produce) is the square root of the number of participants over the number of participants, so 100 people would have a 10% margin of error either way when compared to the general populace, 500 people would have 4.6%...

PC desktop with a triple screen set up. G4 Mac laptop running OS 10.5. I've never been big on videogaming, I use it mostly to surf the web and write. I also have a G3 iMac that I use on the TV for video playback. And I use an iPhone. While doing my astronomy research I almost exclusively...

I use the standard crit system. You only take wound damage if you take more than Level + Constitution in damage and I give a +3 bonus to this value to anyone with a good Fort Save. Anything above that is wound damage. So if you are 10th level and you have a 16 Con, you take 26 points of...