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Gotta admit, I thought the first "wombat" was a typo until I got to the second "wombat." And yes, wombats are awesome. Have you read Ursula Vernon's Digger? Still no reply to me. In hindsight, my exploration encounter is too crowded. My combat encounter is still awesome.

Well, on the one hand, that's great news -- people are enthusiastic about the new edition. On the other hand, the odds just went way down. :/

Oh yes, Blackwarder, I think I learned a bit about writing succinctly on this project. When they say, "kill your darlings," they mean it. I had to lose so many of my ideas because of space.

I noticed the I thing, myself, but I assumed it was the keyboard? I was typing on a borrowed computer because I don't have Word on my machine and I didn't like the way OpenOffice was interpreting the template. I also have the habit of double-spacing when I start a new sentence. I went back...

I put my name in the Goblet of Fire! (They're never going to pick me.) The instructions I got said they'd let the people they chose know within 2 to 4 weeks. Didn't say anything about us losers. I guess if it gets to be April and we haven't heard, we can presume we didn't make it.

I just noticed last night that all the armor classes are solid numbers, not just an armor bonus. I mean, it says Padded, AC 11, Chain AC 16, Full Plate AC 18. Then it asks you to add your Dexterity modifier, maybe. That tickles me in a nostalgic, old-school way. The little sketches in the...

I found a playthrough of Caverns of Thracia using the Little Brown Books, and it seemed really vicious. Like, choose the wrong entrance, bam, first encounter's gnolls. Here you go. The Necromancer Games conversion for 3.5 says it's for 4th level characters.

I don't think I've used command words, instead allowing the power to activate on an attack action. I will say, stacking multi shot feats with a missile weapon that has an elemental quality can get confusing as to which d6s are arrow shots and which are bonus damage. And when the user's a...

I just bought the PHB for my birthday! It looks great, and all the new class options are exciting. I do think someone who's never played tabletop before might be overwhelmed with some of the options. Has anybody else noticed that the Elemental Way monk is a low-powered Last Airbender simulator?

Yeah, it sounds like Gygax (and maybe Arneson) had a whole lot of players who would come to them and schedule a play time. Kind of like how the Western Marches game ran.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a situation where that doesn't also apply to 1E. Maybe it's because I'm not as hot on 1E rules. (I started playing Labyrinth Lord a couple of years ago, after playing 3E/3.5. It really was like riding a bicycle.)

I have been thinking, lately, about giving the players a certain number of attribute points and letting them distribute as they wish. It has the possibility of a player putting most of his points into one or two attributes to get an 18, so maybe I'd better specify a necessary minimum attribute...

I haven't made an exhaustive comparison, also I don't have my books with me, but it was my impression that 2E gave more XP for monsters. XP for loot was an optional rule; the DMG warned that it could lead to giving out too much treasure. It also talked about different ratios of XP to GP...

What version of D&D did you discover? dndclassics.com offers a selection of products from the earlier editions of the game, and a few playtest products for the latest version. The only rules they offer are for the Basic game (the 1981 and 1983 editions, and the Rules Cyclopedia), but those and...

All right, I've seen all kinds of questions about how do you work the Wealth system, why not just a cash amount, what happens when characters sell stuff, how do you work Wealth bonus for single encounters, etc. I can't find the answer to my question, which is: On pg. 204 of the d20 Modern Core...

Does that count, though? Is it possible for someone to keep going after they've started drowning by using massive amounts of cure spells to pop them back up to positive hit points every time they drop to 0 (i.e., every round)? If it is possible to suck down cure spells like that and keep...

Okay. Okay. Okay. I need this book like I need oxygen. Mind flayers riding beholders like horses? HOW DID I MISS THIS?!

Make sure you get their money before they go into the room. Also, some kind of a release of liability would be beneficial if you can't stop it flensing people alive.

I'm at work, and my RPG collection has been pared down rather drastically because I don't own a house and the collection has suffered from blimey, don't wanna shift this lot ever again syndrome. But the survivors include all kinds of GURPS books, Spycraft 1st Ed., and Mutants & Masterminds the...

1st Edition Player's Handbook? I can toddle on in to McKay's Used Books & CDs in Knoxville, Tennessee and lay my hands on any number of 'em if I don't mind getting them slightly foxed. Sometimes their binding is coming apart, but that just means they've been well used. Some things they don't...