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When I first got into 3E D&D, I heavily house-ruled it, because over the years I had painsakingly developed lots of house rules for 2E D&D, mostly for combat, and I wanted to continue with the "look and feel" of combat that I had developed. However, with the advent of 3.5, I want to discard my...

Generally speaking, I don't care for player characters that are not of the standard races. While I'll allow the occasional drow or half-ogre as a player character (i.e. a non-standard race with an ECL +1 or perhaps even an ECL +2), I think anything beyond that is too bizarre and too difficult to...

A heavy crossbow isn't a siege weapon, but a great crossbow probably is (at least, as far as historical comparisons go).

Hmm... I imagine a heavy crossbow built with +4 mighty is going to be massive. So, even if the group's half-orc barbarian cocks it, I can't picture the group's halfling rogue carrying it and firing it. Each increment of "mighty" should increase the weight, if not the size, of the crossbow. So...

Never mind. I re-read the previous post, and realized my reply was incorrect.

Right. But I think he wants to go beyond that, here.

So, if a character is listed as having a STR 16, then his Strength is 14 when wielding melee weapons, and 20 in terms of jumping and carrying capacity? Sounds like an excellent idea to me. Another way to do it is give the race free feats that improve their jumping and carrying capacity. But I...

I, too, see NutkinLand as EN World's "little room in the back", though I sometimes compare it to the little rooms where they display the porn material in the backs of otherwise pedestrian bookstores. And you know the kinds of guys you can find hanging out in those little rooms! ;)

Exactly!

Yes, well, during the majority of my years of gaming (20 years or so), mini's were likewise a rarely-used luxury. But, then, for most of those years, the game did not depend so heavily on the use of minis as it does nowadays. And, really, that is a great part of my argument here. In...

Yes, but there wasn't anything indirect or subtle about what I was saying. At WotC, there are the game designers, testers, and writers, and then there are the corporate investors, bean counters, lawyers, and marketers. Although they all work for the same company, I do not necessarily lump the...

Hey, it's not my conclusion; it's that of just about every history book I've ever read on Hitler's campaigns in WWII -- and I've read lots.

I once used this map... http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mapofweek/oct_overview2_hi.jpg and this one... http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mapofweek/oct_dwelling2_hi.jpg and this one... http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mapofweek/oct_lake2_hi.jpg ...for a remote gnomish village in my...

Allegations? They were more like speculations. What I said was (I quote): Hmm... I wonder what kind of cost-efficient labor WotC has, doing the mass-production paint jobs on these miniatures? Let me guess: the same kind of foreign "sweatshop" labor that Nike uses to mass-produce its shoes...

Ha! Nike has gone to great lengths, recently, to pretty much say the same thing. The miniatures line itself is *good* idea; it's the random packaging of them (and the marketing that is behind that) that is, IMHO, a bad idea. (But, of course, what's "good" and "bad" here is subjective.)

Well, sure, there are lots of alternatives. (For example, those cardboard counters that Fiery Dragon puts out are most excellent.) But that's beside the point. Before 3E D&D, I went for years and years without playing with miniatures. When I first started playing 3E D&D, I still didn't use...

Feh. To me, this smacks of Dickensian commercialism and runaway consumerism. In the starter boxes: 16 randomized miniatures (1 rare, 5 uncommon, and 10 common). What's this... ?! The same kind of marketing gimmick that WotC used with that money raking game, Magic: the Gathering... ?! And with...

Although we don't know with 100% accuracy all the reasons why, exactly, Hitler attacked at Kursk, we can still make a pretty accurate assement that, given Hitler's overall personal history, that his megalomania had a awful lot to do with it. And, surely, that clouded his decision-making process...

I tried that once, years ago, in one of my roleplaying sessions. It reminded the players of the "scrubbing bubbles" commercial of a bathroom cleaning product, which was on TV during those days.

Yes, that is one of the best soundtracks for gothic horror RPG'ing. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000028UY/qid=1065671038/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-1680146-1814519