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Barring learning disabilities, only being involved in the game for a one-shot and then never coming back to it, or a DM who says that the rules just don't matter, no player has an excuse for not continually becoming ever more conversant with the rules for the game they're playing. Doesn't mean...

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Modern standards have too many rules that won't be missed.

A druid wants money for the same reasons every other class wants money. If the druid wants to be separated from civilization they wouldn't be adventuring - they'd be living alone among the trees in the wilderness. They may not FAVOR civilization but they sure do interact with it, starting with...

Yes. But not because of a heroic death. Had a monk PC in a 1E campaign where resurrection magic was readily available. He died. Actually he died LOT. Always raised. Eventually he got close to reaching his maximum allowed # of deaths. The DM generously extended that limit - and eventually...

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Best - 1E DMG So much history and nostalgia and bad design and good design and bad advice and good advice and I use it even with other editions. "Worst" - 4E anything I never even played 4E but quite foolishly bought all three core books without knowing anything of the system therein and care...

A curse like a sex change is a direct roleplaying challenge to the players, INFLICTED upon them unwillingly. It doesn't matter that they should have been more cautious, the consequences you're putting on them are, "Accept this roleplaying challenge... OR ELSE..." Or else, what, exactly? Some...

Seen several people get close but nobody yet has said: Ford Lincoln Mercury (postmaster)

Firstly, for purposes of meaningful discussion the GIVEN parameters are that those ARE the only options. We're effectively excluding the possibility of some other choice being available and meaningful. That said, this isn't being presented with a choice of upholding your oath or not - it is...

I likely wouldn't have said it if I never wanted it quoted (for better OR worse).

It's a trick question and the answer is in the thread title. What constitutes breaking an oath depends on what the oath IS. Whether the oath is broken willingly is obvious - did the paladin KNOW that their actions constituted breaking their oath and then performed the action anyway? That is...

Every DM who runs their own campaign is an RPG maker. Every tweak, every new rule or class or spell or mechanic, every element that is removed/ignored is REDESIGNING that RPG. Maybe only in little ways, but sometimes A LOT of little ways. Sometimes you never really even notice the changes...

Only insofar as it supports how I play, it doesn't determine how I play. I like a character sheet to have the most important and frequently used information on one page and easy to find. As a rule I am a far better judge of what else I want to track in detail that isn't on that one page and am...

"Others will think of things I didn't, and devise things beyond my capability." EGG, DMG Preface. At least at the point he wrote that, he grasped to some extent his limitations as a designer. He had always freely used ideas he liked from other people and only used a portion of what HE wrote...

It is irrelevant whether the paladin really committed murder or not. That isn't the issue that matters. People will have differing opinions on whether they did or didn't because people have differing ideas of what various alignments and actions really mean, and what obligations paladins have...

Most of the adventures you named seemed to be ones that originally came out under 1E. I'd suggest 1E or 2E first. If you're unfamiliar with them, and/or don't want to dive that deep into house rules (which 1E in particular begs for), I'd go 3E. And since you mentioned a level range of 1-8, IF...

The issue with 1E-era misunderstanding/abuse of Charm Person was twofold. First, people wanted it to be Domination - which it decidedly isn't and even goes out of its way to try to establish that it isn't. Second is that people want it to apply to not just the caster but also all the casters...

I'm no SCHOLAR on the topic, but... D&D has always used miniatures. Not EVERYBODY used miniatures for D&D, but D&D was heavily derived from tabletop wargaming and use of miniatures. Currently the accepted miniatures scale is 25MM but it used to be smaller (20MM?) - because miniatures were...