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This one made me sort of sad. I thought the first one was loving in a sort of cruel way, whereas this one was just cruel. It's funny, though: Doug Douglason's bogus GM call at the end bothered me more than anything else in either film. His "Elite Game Master" title is officially STRIPPED.

The AD&D1 DMG continued to see heavy use in my 3e play, mostly for the encounter tables, which are very nice 'core fantasy' creature lists. Also a few other things. Other than that, of course I retooled old adventures, but I used very few actual rules resources from other versions of the game -...

I've always thought of EnWorld as primarily a 3e board. Will this stay true? Or will it become a 4e board? What I guess I'd like to see it become is a general D&D/fantasy RPG board, covering all editions of D&D from OD&D to 4e, with related fantasy RPGs fair game as well. I'm not much of a...

Well, here's your chance to try the game that started it all, in a PbP format anyway. I'm running the game at http://odd74.proboards76.com/index.cgi?board=calithena You need to register to check it out. If you want to play drop me a note in the character creation thread and we'll get you...

I really like these variant rules for skills: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/buildingCharacters/alternativeSkillSystems.htm#levelBasedSkills One thing that bugs me a little is that adopting this system nerfs Intelligence a little bit, since you don't get the extra skill points for high...

I didn't vote, but the fact that this kind of advance planning is rewarded by the system is one of the things that put me off 3e for a while. I like my characters to grow organically in play, but if that's going to be punished by decreased effectiveness in crunch time, then there's a strong...

Hi Eric - Out of curiosity, what if the GM left the feats, skills, mechanics, etc. intact, but said something like "No bards, monks, or barbarians, no gnomes, and no multiclassing except for elves?" And then explained it in terms of the character of his world, or whatever?

I hope you picked #3 if that's how you feel, Arnwyn.

By the way, I'm happy that most of you are picking the first two options, because I'm thinking of going back to 3e and running a core books only campaign with options (mostly: number of baseline spells, races, core classes, and multiclassing) reduced to bring them more in line with earlier...

Great question in the original post. One partial answer is that a lot of people kept playing AD&D1 as OD&D with some extra rules and new options - in other words, they used play-procedures derived locally from the simpler OD&D rules-texts, but with options, spells, etc. as written up in AD&D...

mcrow - This is a different issue, but if the DM just said 'make a character', and didn't give you any setting details, would that be OK with you? What if he said that and said "but you can only be a human, dwarf, elf, or halfling, and only use the old D&D race/class combos, please." (In other...

Morrus - that's a fair point, but I could substitute the word 'expectations' if you prefer. On the internet a lot of time you get the impression that D&D players now expect to be able to make up anything they want for any game regardless of the individual DM, world, etc. That's a lot of work...

I knew one guy who had this rule who accumulated a frightening number of products because his players took to buying two copies and giving one to him so that they could use the stuff that was in them. I think for me it wouldn't be worth it in the end, but there's a temptation...

As a follow up: if you picked the 3rd or lower option, what would you do if you came into a game where there were restrictions in play? Just leave? Argue? Try it out and see how the group was before making a final decision? Also note, this is NOT about adding homebrewed rules, etc. - assume...

Hi all - I'm wondering what you, as a player of D&D3, expect to be available for character creation when you sit down at a table for a new game. What rules, etc. do you have a right to expect being in play when you're sitting down at the table with a new group and you haven't made any special...