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In fact, it's almost identical to the 4E skill system, minus the bonuses for trained skills. If it's good enough for 4E in 2008, it can't be too bad. This is pure semantics, but surely AD&D is 2E, and the classic sets are 1E? Otherwise we go from 1E to 3E with no 2E.

How does it work? I thought you can't play something like a hobbit thief or dwarf cleric in OD&D. Also, can anyone direct to a webpage which describes the differences between 1E editions (B/X, BECMI, Holmes, Moldvay, Mentzer etc.)?

Yep. I'm a member of the credit-cardless underclass, so I can't get my hands on a copy, though I'd like to. Thanks for the tips.

Can you expand on that? I like tactical play and figurines, but I haven't seen anything in OD&D which supports it better than BFRPG. Is Chainmail significantly different?

Right. I've had enough of ruminating over the pros and cons of 4E. I'm going to run an old-school adventure for the group before we decide what system we want for our game. It's come down to a choice between Basic OD&D or Basic Fantasy RPG, but I can't decide. Here's the breakdown as I see...

Given the common reasons for gamers growing beards, we can presume that WotC isn't expecting an influx of gamers with real chins or without blubber chins.

I agree. It plays like Diablo.

Yeah. And rouges should be called theif's you 4E loving loosers.

That has potential. The difficulty for me is that I like the simplicity of D&D in regard to hitpoints and generic-ish combat actions (please, no more Rolemaster! I repent!), but the lack of verisimilitude with wounding and healing irks me. With healing surges it's becoming more - yes -...

I've never considered that a problem. Only the highest-level priests can cast it, so very few NPCs will even have access to it. Also, you'd imagine clerics tend to be quite strict about who they raise and under what circumstances, so unless the party can find a priest of a commerce/trade god...

"Unfulfilled destiny" simply means that the player isn't ready for a PC to die. Who's to say that a dead character's destiny wasn't to become lunch for a troll?

If you're after primo female figurines, try Shadowforge.

So did I, but for the world outside the RPG community it was only newsworthy for a week, if that, so anyone who wanted to write about Gary's death had to do it straight away. Gary Gygax had a sense of humour. I hope he would have appreciated a KotDT reference in an article about his passing...

I seem to remember that in the early, pre-CWoE days (when they were still ripping off articles from The Onion), one of the team had "writing articles for gaming mags" among his credits. I haven't checked recently, but it might be gone, considering that the site is now frequented by young...

Not as bad as it sounds. The Chaser's War on Everything is an enormously popular comedy program in Australia. For its website, the writers could have gone for a cheap, predictable poke at socially retarded gaming nerds, but instead they penned a funny and respectful article.

Thank you and goodbye, Gary. My life would have been a lot less fun without your vision and creativity. You will be missed.

Probably the most realistic halflings were the real halflings.

Don't like. I agree with Irda Ranger. The appeal of the quickling was always its lithe, fey appearance. The one in this pic just looks like a sort of dire goblin.

I like it much, although I think the exciting adventuring period will be during the spellplague, rather than after it.