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I don't know about broken, but a Guiding Bolt- followed by any good ranged attack (Melf's acid arrow, chromatic orb, sneak attack w/a bow) can inflict massive damage. Enough to drop the big tough guy in one round, sometimes. Dual burning hands can clear quite a swath through a group of...

Wow, I like that idea! I may just incorporate it into my game. If for no other reason Than that my die rolls suck, and this could really help the party endurance. 6-8 encounters, my butt! We're lucky to get through 3 or 4 before someone's near death, we're out of spells/ ability uses; and...

That would be Sevellan- my old half Ogre fighter. He was rather whiffy...

Pretty much this. "Classic Fantasy" I call it. Enough of the fantastic to make it spark the imagination, and enough of the real to make it semi-believeable. I did like the more comic line drawings of B/X and 1st ed, too- but my game esthetic was ^^ 3rd ed art was decidedly NOT to my...

I read a similar quote/theme in a lot of the old cowboy Westerns I like- except it's along the lines of people tend to be more polite when everyone is armed- because disputes tend to be settled with guns. I always thought "Well, that's one way to keep the population of quarrelsome people...

Stabbed, hacked, chopped, and shot them. mostly. :giggle:

Interesting. My first experience was with the B/X sets and Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of dread. I was too poor, lol to buy and play ALL the adventures that came out then, but I did play some- like Village of Hommlet; and Ravenloft. Our middle school D&D club also played Sinister...

Wow- tough decision. I own so very many books... Best: Really, it's a toss-up between my OG Moldvay boxed set; the 3rd ed Forgotten Realms campaign setting; and the OG Unearthed Arcana. Runners up would be the 1st ed PHB and DMG; Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting; the Linked...

THAT'S IT!!! That's my old boxed set that got lost/stolen/disappeared many years ago... (It's been so long- since the 1990s- I forget why I no longer own it, lol) We got a lot of use out of it- really expanded the scope of our campaign. I remember having the MC suppliment for it too. I...

Well, I guess that explains why my fighter can't hit the side of a barn- when he's standing in it... Well, that, and my awful die rolls, lol.

My favorite low stat character of all time? Dingus! My Gully Dwarf fighter. I don't even remember the specifics- this was mid 1990s, and our games usually included plenty of funny smelling "green tobacco"... I just remember that he had very low scores in both intelligence and wisdom, not...

What in the name of Fizban's hairy buttocks is bounded accuracy??? I keep seeing the term, but have no idea what it means. A search turned up about 1000 more mentions of it than I cared to wade through, and that's ALL they were: mentions. Likewise the heck is RAW? Thanks in advance to...

That would have made sense, tho.... I'm just glad they came to their senses, and re-released the MC as the MM in book form. All expansions after that were soft cover books. Not as convenient, I suppose, as a one shop stop- with all pages in one really big binder. But still, They don't...

2nd edition was part of our D&D evolution. I guess, technically, we were still playing 1st ed (heavily houseruled) with 2nd ed tacked on, as we got the books. The 2 weren't THAT different, that you couldn't simply port in things from one to the other. I'm guessing we got the most...

I have to agree with the OP, for the most part. 5th ed is easy to learn- because it's relatively simple at heart. ALL the confusion I've had is attributable to baggage from earlier editions. (and some odd editing/arrangement choices) Which means it's within the grasp of most people...

One way we made combat more gritty back in the days of 2E, was to expand on the critical rules. Natural 20 = double damage. Not roll 2x the amount of dice then add modifiers, DOUBLE damage. Those crits HURT! Natural 1 = critical miss. Often it involved damaging one's self, or an ally...

Never got the RC- not even sure why, as it seems like it'd be right up my alley. (just ask the shelves groaning under the weight of all the D&D related books I own...) I began with B/X, and instantly loved it! Some things I did find irritating (racial limits), but that's true of any...

One of the things I liked most about 3rd ed, as a DM- is how easy it was to adjust the CR of an encounter, by advancing monsters, or adding class "templates" to them. The default Kobolds were kinda pushovers for all but the weakest 1st level parties- or a solo character. You needed gobs of...

That sounds like the sort of player who'd get uninvited quickly. My players and DM tend to lose patience quickly with that sort of behavior... (the latter example) As for my own issue, the problem seems to be primarily a combination of truly horrid dice rolls on the player side; really...

Preface: I began my D&D journey way back in the early 1980s with the B/X boxed sets. Probably 12 or 13 at the time. The ones that came with Keep on the Borderlands/ Isle of Dread; light blue plastic dice, with numbers you had to fill in with crayon; a rulebook, and some order forms and...