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I went to Gen Con that year as I knew 3e was coming out. I'd been following it on Eric Noah's board which is part of this boards history. I went to a playtest session and ran into Monte Cook. For whatever reason at the time I had not paid attention to the authors so I didn't know him from...

I think Green Ronin did "Book of the Righteous" which I consider one of the best third party supplements of all time. 3e was a big third party era. A lot of it was dreck. But there are some jewels.

It would be helpful to me if you defined all those things you mentioned.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Honestly. I guess in that sense I'm not truly OSR though I played during the early days. The playstyle and feel was always more important than the mechanics. I did like that 1e had no dissociative mechanics that I could discern but that is about the...

I prefer a variety of spells and some variability but I think we are on track to solve the same problem. I don't want fixed healing any more than I want fixed damage. The vagaries of life have to matter.

I do like the idea of each character at each level have some sort of healing die number that gets rolled in spell formulas. Cure light wounds does roll healing dice once but maybe sure serious does it 3x. At 1st level healing dice might just be the dice you rolled. As a short term figure, I...

I think there are things we loved about old school D&D and with all of the game design ideas that have come since it makes perfect sense to create a D&D from those elements. I've long thought I'm going to do this one day. Maybe I will publish mine. Maybe I'll just use it in my games. I...

I didn't want an amped up 3e. I wanted a more relaxed version of 3e.

Why would we really care anyway? If I didn't enjoy Gary's style of play I sure wouldn't care that he enjoyed it. I also think we can know "playstyle" without being aware of the rules mechanics. It seems obvious to me that Gary ran a pretty tough campaign at least early on. I think I'm an...

Cool. I never played an Eberron campaign but I have allowed a few renegade warforged into my campaign by calling them "freed" golems.

Interesting article with good reasons for humans to be dominant. I think though a game could have different reasons and make any race they wanted dominant. I suspect it really all just comes down to the fact we are humans. Also to me - race actually make sense as it used to be used in...

I am getting up there. I started in 81-82 time frame with the red box. Once swam 120 feet underwater without a breath to win a bet with my dad for the 1e monster manual. I really love the playstyle of 1e but I prefer the 3e structure better. If I write my own game eventually, I will I...

It may have been 2e. There was an off hand penalty and the off sword had to be shorter. So short sword and longsword. I played a lot of both those editions.

Also one of the ways I made my deities stronger was to give them what I called multiplicity. It would start at maybe a 3 or 4 and go up to 6 for a greater deity. What is allows was that many actions for that being. All greater deities also could cast any and all spells. So a deity could drop...

I think one holy trinity my group had was the combination of a short sword of speed, with a longsword, both with high pluses (+3, +4) and a girdle of giant strength or ogre gauntlets. You could hit three times in one round and the penalties didn't matter that much on the to hit with all those...

I get the distinction as it's been presented. Prior to this thread I would not have made that distinction. Any game where the party is going along a predetermined path would be a railroad. I thought that was enough to be pejorative in my eyes but apparently not in everyones. I am also happy...

I'm happy to agree on this nuance but to be honest I think railroad has been used plenty for all of it. So it's hard to argue those using it as equivalent to linear have got it wrong. A lot of people have talked that way for a long time in the gaming community. It's probably best to just be...

That is where we disagree. I do think the DM's vision for the campaign setting is absolute. Player character have freedom but that freedom is limited by the campaign world. Again all of this is upfront and agreed to in advance. The player controls the character he has made and has his...

I'm not a marginalized group but people say offensive things to me all the time.

This would be cool.