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Plexiglass is no different than whiteboard. If you let the ink sit for a long time, you have to wipe harder. Or just grab an alcolhol bottle and spray the surface a bit or moisten the rag, and it comes right off. The advantage is that plexiglass is cheap, and you can slide any kind of...

Girls are playing D&D?!! O tempora! o mores! :D

Rolling a 1 sucks, but life goes on, and maybe luck will shine next level (in the meantime you still get the other benefits on leveling up).

Basic/Expert D&D is the only true game. :)

Smurfs. :) Legos and other such toys... If you have a lot of dice, those can work too.

Actually it's not a requirement, just a general suggestion. If the PC doesn't want to build a castle and attract followers at name level, he can just keep adventuring. The only requirement is you have to be 9th level or higher. Of course, after 9th level you don't roll for hit points anymore...

No, I don't mark my books. Then again, all I ever bring to the gaming table are my '81 Basic/Expert books, a DM screen, possibly a module or Dungeon magazine, dicebag & pencils, and a sturdy binder that has my notes, maps, blank character sheets, photocopies of useful stuff from various other...

The 6 ability scores, and attribute checks based directly on them Very strong character archetypes Experience levels and their associated titles and benefits Abstract combat (hit points and armor class) "Vancian" magic, spell books Effect-based saving throws (the 5 saving throw categories) Old...

Sure, you can change it. But I'm wondering what the designers had in mind. In other words, what's the real story behind the power creep. In 2e, some of the monsters (dragons & giants) were beefed up a lot because the designers decided the old ones were too weak and didn't represent their (and...

If it all balances out in the end, why increase the power level? This is not a dig at 3e, I'm just wondering what their motive was. Because adding more numbers that just cancel out seems like just a waste of time. Also, you should try Basic D&D, 3d6-in-order chargen, you play what you roll...

The d6 system is pretty adaptable and you can get by with just one book. It's also very easy to learn. Well at least the old WEG Star Wars system is, now they've got several d6 books out and supposedly they're at tad bit more involved (I haven't seen them yet). Anyway, it's something worth...

I voted "other", since I don't like crunchy games in general. For fantasy, I'm with '81 Basic/Expert D&D all the way (for other stuff, d6 Star Wars and CoC BRP). Btw, even without feats, Fighters can still do interesting stuff by applying intelligent tactics (a lighter version of AoO exists in...

D&D is the sound of one hand clapping. If you look for it, you cannot find it. D&D will appear to you when the time is right. :)

Diaglo always gets there first. He must have clones, or he's really some kind of experimental advanced A.I. ;)

If you wanted to get technical about it, HM is probably the closest of them all, since it has entire sections cut & pasted from the 1e books (along with heaps of new stuff). And if you disregard most of the new stuff, it's basically straight-up 1e. It's hard to get any closer than that without...

I suspect you've never looked at the D&D Rules Cyclopedia. It's a single book compilation of the '83 Basic/Expert/Companion/Master boxed sets that manages characters levels 1-36. The combat tables have columns for AC 19 to -20, but the table is actually open-ended (there is a section entitled...

You're right, although not all editions use the concept of multiclassing. :) In Basic D&D, you pick one class (for non-humans, the race is the class) and that's the end of the story. Although that limits your options in terms of rules, it does help keep the game very simple and abstract...

You lucky dawg! How different is this one from the later edition? (I heard it had AD&D stats or something...)

Yes! I started out with the '81 Basic set back in the early 80's. Then moved on to AD&D, then AD&D 2e when I went into the military and had to buy new books (they were no longer printing 1e stuff). I played that and various other games until '94 when I went to college, and basically dropped...

Nisarg, your premise is off. I don't care for Rolemaster one bit, I played it (RM2) some back in the day and it was okay and interesting and a nice change of pace from AD&D, but I've since come to dislike any game that has a significant amount of "crunch" (which in my book means anything with...