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Gary, I have a question for you. A friend and I were comparing the stereotypical 3rd Ed D&D player mindset to that of players of 1st and 2nd Ed D&D. Specifically, that "today's gamer" (knowingly using and abusing the stereotype with full knowledge that not ALL players fit this mold) is much...

Elf Witch, I honestly think that you're making the right choice. It looks like things were going from bad to worse. You'll be lucky if all of this doesn't impact your non-gaming friendship with him. As for finding it hard to find a gaming group. There are a *lot* of people here on En World...

Perhaps in your player handout, you can organize info in terms of what opportunities for character creation and adventuring your setting/campaign offers, rather than listing what they can't do. Obviously, if you've banned Bards, Sorcerers, Gnomes, and flails for example, then you need to...

This sounds very interesting and I will be working on this idea for my next campaign. If I understand you correctly, this is why I'll be making my own version rather than simply taking yours straight up. It looks to me that your system isn't as "pure" or "setting-neutral" in practice as your...

Primitive Screwhead, you have a pretty cool idea here that I may take and use myself. I do have a few questions and observations though. 1) Here is what I think the core idea of your system is, let me know if I've "got it". You're separating the 'assumed setting' from the racial descriptions...

Jeremy: "Hey guys, I briefly read the PHB2 and a lot of the abilities reminded me of WoW. I haven't read the whole book in detail yet, but I was wondering if anyone else got the same impressions from it that I did and if anyone thought that perhaps this was intentional?" Several (but...

It sounds to me like your act of cheating is really a symptom not a problem, it's a reaction to the heavy-handed style of play that your GM is inflicting on the players. It also sounds like you need to have a chat with the GM, outside of game time. If he is as close of a friend as you say...

I had a lot of fun making that netbook... Hey Turanil, up for making another one? It need not be "100 buildings" if you're not interested in a sequel to that one. p.s. I just tried downloading that pdf and there seems to be something wrong with the zip file. You might want to look into that...

monte raises a bunch of really interesting points, however I wonder about how hs proposed changes would affect the "feel" of the spellcasters. On a certain level it seems like what he's suggesting would make the activity of playing a spellcaster be more akin to playing a fighter. Not just more...

Congrats to everyone who has accomplished their weight loss goals. Obesity is the great addiction of modern society. :( I too would like to lose about 40 pounds. I'm 5' 7' and approx. 220. According to BMI I should be 165, but I don't think that the BMI properly accounts for my stocky and...

Anyone remember "Skyrealms of Jorune"? I was always intrigued by the ads for it in Dragon Magazine, but never knew anyone who knew anything about it. I often wondered if it was a fun game or not, then after a few years it disappeared...

It can be either, and either style of game can be fun. I don't think that it is an issue of should roleplaying be one or the other, it is more an issue of what does everyone want to play? I think that if a game is to be played in the style of "player's vs. DM", then this should be something...

Hmmm... Consider the previous poster's guesswork on the ages... It was based on the description of the players' behaviours. I too was thinking, "a bunch of kids with maturity not on their side yet, give 'em a few years to grow up". However, you're telling us that these are 30 year olds...

I wasn't only refering to new words. Don't forget the shift of idioms and the redefining of existing words. In the early decades of the 1900's the word "gay" meant "happy & carefree", while a "calculator" or a "computer" was a person whose job it was to calculate or compute, usually numbers...

To a certain extent I agree with you. This is why my claims regarding English remaining as it is were only extending as far as 300 to 500 years from now. That would place English at about 800 to 1000 years old, which could conceivably be the expected limits of it's lifespan as a living...

Well, mostly because the average person is lazy to a certain degree... :D Also, I mean "easy" in terms of "easy to effect a linguistic changeover". In times of abrupt changes in what the dominent language was across cultures, there usually was either a large scale event that caused a language...

It took me a while to find these islands via Google maps (and conspiracy theorists would have a field day with the odd mistures of available and unavailable section of the various islands... ) However THIS specific satellite view just SCREAMS "secret research facility"! :-)...

Nah... give 'em some zombies to control... :D

Isn't it sad that the robot horse sidekick was cooler than the main character? :D I remember watching that show and thinking, "Geez, I wish that guy would just leave and let me watch the adventures of 30-30 and his gun Betsy!" :lol: :lol:

There have been a lot of really interesting points brought up in this thtread and I'm grateful to everyone how has been posting - on both sides of the discussion. It's given me lots to think on. I especially like the ideas surrounding just what traits are and aren't unique to "human" versus...