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That's exactly how i think the game will evolve. Class templates that players use to say, "Here's how your point-build character might look. Or you can mix and match it because the system is balanced." Rasyr, what's your email, i want to ask you a question... :o

Don't quite agree with that, Sebastian, in all humbleness. I DO think DnD is more popular than it has ever been. Instead of cartoons, we have feature films (which are also bad) COUNTLESS video games, commercials, movie star endorsements (Vin Diesel?) and multinational consumer brand name...

I think that's a great idea, and sort of a logical progression of the system. Tying it back to the Thread Topic, is 3rd Edition culture sustainable (not quite sure what that means) i think that the culture of the game will simply adapt with the style of players through new incarnations of the...

I wonder how many people actually use extensive houserules? It's not so much that we USE alternate rules, rather than NOT using every single existing rule. Hell, we don't even use the default XP system anymore, it makes characters level up way too fast for that Almighty 20th level goal, and then...

die_kluge, i absolutely agree with a lot of what you say here. We came up with our own point-based character creation system, an alternative magic system (by the way, check out Ars Magica for a cool magic system) and i let ANYONE trade out racial abilities for other feats. I just made a dwarf...

Whoa, long thread, couldn't read it all here at work. Here's my take: I played DnD on and off since 1st edition (i'm in my early 30's, was in love with the genre since about 8 or 9). I liked 2nd edition a lot, and we played without minis or boards and all that (fun) crapola. We didn't know any...

Yes, there are oodles of difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions. The best way to have played the game, lucky for us older fogies, is to have played in all the incarnations, learning the ins and outs so we can pass it on, hopefully, to new players. Yeah, the 3rd edition is more...

yeah, most of this DnD stuff won't be worth much at all, other than the small press, short run books that also happened to be exceptionally good. For example, in ten years, a pristine, unused copy World's Largest Dungeon would be a great collector's item. As for the minis, i hate the way WotC...

porphry house Really? My brother ran that one for us, but he fluffed it up so much i suppose it didn't quite match the original, but how would i know? it was both funny and terrifying. The bottom levels of the house were great, and the yuan ti were certainly very real, as were the demons. The...

Me! well, the only thing we have going on now is a full group of CoC players going through Masks of Nylarhotep, and a 2-player Midnight Underdark campaign. The latter is pretty combat heavy. About a year ago we had a good M&M campaign going based on the classic Microprose X-com video game. For...

1st ed. vs 3.5 I agree with most of you, the 3.5 edition is the best combat system. That said, we don't use NEARLY all the rules, and i think that is where most people have the problem. The system is so robust and detailed, it undoubtably is more info per page than either 1st or 2nd edition...

low level Just to chime in, i run (and love) low to mid level campaigns (12th at the highest). I'm running an underdark Midnight campaign now with two guys, and they WANTED to start at 10th level. So fine, they wanted more powerful characters from the get go, that's not a problem. In fact, we...

gamer howdy. I'm a gamer and DM in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel hill area. I've played DnD on and off since 1st ed, and now play a hybrid 3.5 edition of the Midnight Campaign setting. I've also played Runequest, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, Mutants and Masterminds, Call of Cthulhu and a few...

game worlds I started long ago with the Forgotten Realms and learned from those guys how to build a campaign world. That said, i didn't read a whole lot of the novels, and didn't care if my campaign contradicted the canon. I just took the setting, the maps, the core ideas, and then crafted my...

fire and frost giants what a great thread. Some extremely good points have been brought up regarding climates, weather, monster temperment, ecology, religion, social status, religion, etc. I mean, what we have over the course of this thread could be made into a game product! (I can see it now...

I agree. There are imbalances in the DnD system, mostly because it is such a sprawling conglomeration of magical effects that have been culled together from over thirty years of various sources. Of course it's impossible to mesh such a game seamlessly, but that's where individual creativity...

magic stuff I totally agree with Gez. I don't see really why some people are making a big deal out of this. If you had a clan of frost giants wielding shocking, flaming burst sonic vorpal axes, your players would be laughing (until they died) but the point is that it would be an artificial...

Masks! Greetings folks! I found this thread, and it so happens i started a Masks campaign last week for a hybrid d20/classic game. We have 4 dedicated players and me, and they got as far as investigating the Ju Ju House after our first foray. Jackson Elias's death really freaked them out, but...

best adventures non d20 well, i know it's not fantasy, but Chaosium's The Complete Masks of Nylarathotep is my favorite. It's huge, beautifully b/w illustrated, and speaks straight to the GM with a friendly, "here are some suggestions" voice. It covers the most logical angles the investigators...

Has anyone seen this game? The first edition came out many many years ago, and the fifth edition comes out next month. It has a great spell system, very innovative, and great Flaw and Virtue system. I want to adopt it to d20, but it will be a considerable change. I mean, the magic system is...