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between 3e and 3.5e, a lot of spells were changed - duration, effect, damage, area, etc. And, between 3.5e and Pathfinder, still more spells were changed and in similar fashion. I found it a constant annoyance to have to look up so many changes, "Wait, that was the 3.5e spell, does it do the...

the article is blocked at my work, but I think I get the general idea from the posts here. I've been playing D&D and primarily DMing since the late 1970s. Despite all of this experience, I sometimes find it useful to have things consolidated into an article so I can reference it. I'm not a...

2e was more compatible with 1e than Pathfinder is with 3.0. Many spells are different, and the classes were all retooled for 3.5. You can say that PF and 3.5E are somewhat compatible, so that would give you a life of 10 years or so now? Other than a few tweaks, adding NWPs and buffing up...

People seem to forget that this site was founded when 3E was in the pipeline and coming out soon. When 3E first came out, it suffered from all sorts of bashing on here, and the other internet forums out there. (Anybody remember WebRPG? I found a great gaming group in the 90s through there...

If they missed one session, I just have the PC become a "silent" NPC for the night. I will run the PC as DM, or else have a player run him as a second PC, only silent. However, as DM, I'll make sure they don't do anything too out of character - i.e., the wizard charging a hill giant, instead...

I just don't want your regular 1st level monsters to be so weak as to never be a threat to a high level PC. Sure, the high level PCs should mop the floor with them, but there should still be the threat of serious damage, even death. Even the mightiest of heroes is still vulnerable to the...

Back in Ye Olde Golden Days of 1E, I remember DMing a game where the party thief surprised & backstabbed Orcus for some huge amount of damage, leaving him with only a few hit points and easy pickings for the rest of the party. I don't think that same party managed to beat Demogorgon, though...

Good post. With the success of the LotR movies and the launch of 3e, the ranger also became a potential master archer, with some of those archery feats doing things straight from the movies... (hard to believe it's been over 12 years since the first LotR movie came out.)

cool idea - I ran a side adventure years back with a similar idea - Lizard Folk based on Warhammer Lizardmen. XP awarded. In mine, the lizardmen ruled with the equivalent of the Slann Mage-Priest as almost near demigods on the world, and humans and halflings were kept as slaves, or else...

Humans are always a good enemy, and I like the xenophobic elf idea above, too. Gnolls with 2 HD might be tough on a party just starting out. You could also re-skin goblins or kobolds by giving them a climb speed and have them moving through the trees of the forest, avoiding the ground...

Yup, I was in the middle of the "Loves women in brass bikini" demographic at the time, along with nearly every other teenage male in the western world.

Wasn't this site founded right before 3E came out in 2000? Weren't all those old threads people complaining about how terrible 3E was, how it ruined D&D, how they changed too much, it was too complicated, it was written for 5th graders, etc, etc. Yet, 3E gave birth to 3.5E and then Pathfinder...

Actually, back in 1E days, a round was one minute, so you actually had 10 minutes. And, we had always played it that another PC (or ally) merely had to reach the fallen PC to stanch the bleeding. So, no heal check like 3E, no healing surge activation, etc like 4E. Just reaching them to be...

Interesting, my FLGS still gets quite a few people for D&D Encounters with 4e rules, but they haven't had enough interest for them to have a PF game in their store. I'm not a big fan of PF or 4E, and I know many people who also don't love 3e, 3.5e, PF or 4e. The only regular gaming I do now is...

"You just got hit for 30 points of damage?"

The level 27 solo was Baba Yaga. She had an aura that prevented teleporting within 10 squares, and also gave a penalty to flying creatures. Her main at-will was Broomstick, which was a melee only attack. She also had a recharge power Crushing Grasp, which recharged on a 5 or 6 (every 3rd...

Those would be my core races as well. Gnomes, Dragonborn, Tiefling, Kender, Grumpy Cats, Goliaths, Shifters, etc can be optional races for down the road in PHB2 and PHB3.

well, the last solo of the campaign (the PCs were level 24, I think?) and the solo was level 27. Not sure they were encounter powers or recharge ones, but the solo had a daily or two, plus another daily that recharged once bloodied, and then had an aura, a nifty minor action power usable every...

That was one of my problems with 4E - for 30 years of gaming from the late 70s until 2008, the games I've been involved with have usually centered on one big "epic" encounter per each segment of the campaign with both sides going all-out for the entire battle, and it coming down to the last few...