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I never really thought about it that much when I played and ran 2E, but now THAC0 bothers me not because of the numbers but because why should my "to hit" number be based on a specific Armor Class?

Baatezu and Tanar'ri are way cooler names than boring ol' devils and demons. I think that Planescape said the fiends themselves consider the D-words racial slurs. I have not experienced 1st edition. My major irritation with AD&D2e is "when is high/low good/bad". Of course, thief skills using...

I'll do him one better than that, I'll provide some examples. Bjork = Birch Bjorn = Bear Isa = Ice Tor = Thunder Is + Bjorn = Isbjorn = Ice Bear Tor + Bjorn = Torbjorn = Thunder Bear Also, did you know the Norse had a god of the Biathlon? Seriously, his name is Ull(r), and his portfolio is...

That's only the second time I've seen "Bjorn" spelled "Biorn".

Odin's spear was named Gungnir, and there was a belief that an oath sworn on it was unbreakable. Marvel is correct that Thor's hammer is named Mjolnir. There is a legend of the sword of Hrut.

Looks like the both the PF game I'm a player in and my World Tree game are gaining players. For WT, our Cani Warrior hasn't shown up, but now we have a Herethroy Healer/Barbarian. The player put most of his XP into Healing and Edged for his Three Handed Sword, not even an amateur at Magic...

Currently in a Pathfinder game set on an alternate, earlier Earth. Using the backgrounds of the characters created so far for my World Tree adventure as a springboard for the adventure start. One player should be finishing his character today. So far we have a Cani warrior, and a Zi Ri...

Some of the most fun I've had in RPGs has come from memorable character deaths. To me there's something a lot more interesting in continuing to tell the story of a character's death than having death completely removed as a failure option.

No one is saying people aren't allowed to buy splatbooks, what we have objections to are "company Y released book Z, and I like class/race/feat A and want to use it in your game, and you have to allow it because it's official." While I never have actually had that happen, I do see a lot of...

Mine objection is actually quite simple: very often you have to learn new rules to make something from Splatbook 8972T work with what you already have going on. The HARP line is a noticeable exception: everything works off the same mechanic, so a new profession doesn't require jumping through...

I stand by that this is a problem with the PLAYER. Again with the baseless accusations. I've already reported your hostile tone once. Now it looks like I have to do it again.

Not having the sense to run away from a fight that isn't going well is a problem with the player, not the adventure, the GM, or even whether or not the GM fudges. Unless the GM has cruelly closed all possible escape routes, or blocks them as soon as you get to them.

These are not the only options: the NPC got good rolls, the PCs assumed they were invincible. Adventuring is an inherently dangerous activity.

Under no circumstances should it be on the cover, censor bars or not. Once you get inside, unless that's the purpose, it should be neither tantalizing nor disturbing.

In my early days of GMing, quite a lot. Now, I prefer to roll in the open so players are less likely to complain about bad luck if they can see the roll themselves. In so doing, I'd get caught fudging. As far as I remember, recently, it was only once, in the PBMB game.

Perhaps, but there was that period where Wizards (or was it Hasbro at that point?) removed all older edition PDFs, even from legitimate sale because of piracy. Having it available makes me happy because my Monster Supplements from the boxed sets had to be cut apart and put in sheet protectors...

Good news to me.

Answer part 1: Highly subjective, each person has a different idea of what they consider optimal character progression. Part 2: Are you using "talents" to mean "Ranks in a skill"? Because that's what it looks like to me. In my mind, character levels are hardly a useful concept: if you want to...

These are generally made by individual GMs to make sure their GMing style and your playing style would work well together. Each person who runs RPGs and does this has their own, so while questions may be similar, the chances of them being exactly the same is small. If on the other hand, you're...

It really depends on the flexibility of the classes. When it takes several classes to get to the idea of your character concept, I don't like it. They are helpful for "jump in and play". There is a tendency for people in skill based to go toward something strongly resembling a class. I just...