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Good question. Hobbit-halflings were never really explored as a race in D&D. While every other race was coloured with racial and cultural distinctions, halflings were lumped with a stereotype from day one. Actually, that's not entirely fair: The Complete Book of Gnomes and Halflings for 2e...

Meh. Hobbity halflings have more depth, even if their presentation in D&D has been one-dimensional. If I feel like playing a real-world gypsy rip-off, I wonder why I'm not playing a human so I can have the same flavour text but instead be tall enough to be strong, dashing, and do decent...

Yes, laugh, earthlings. But be grateful it’s not you staring down the barrel of my search engine. My victory is complete. Despite his daring bluff, I have crushed Tequila Sunrise’s argument with the very encyclopaedia of house rules he himself wrote, and his cleric-bard is hopelessly...

Crumbs. You’ve got me there. I was basing my argument on your constant use of straw men, unfounded assertions about other people’s games, proud lack of experience, the glaring contradiction between what you say and what you do, and the facade of condescending arrogance you affect in order to...

Occasionally? Oh, what a tale Google tells. Quite. You only need to... ...because characters can be made mechanically different, but only if you use house rules. Consistent. Even better, I can live by Tequila Sunrise's Epic Level Handbook 3.75, in the houserules section of this very site...

It's only an oxymoron if we accept that OD&D is played the way you claim, based on your meagre knowledge, instead of the way that every experienced OD&D player in this thread has described. Not wrong. Glaringly right, in fact. "I've been very patient", "insulting tangents", "politically...

You can spare the sighing. You've been patiently telling other roleplayers that the style of game they enjoy isn't enjoyable, based on a single session of OD&D with two other players and an otherwise limited gaming history. Fluff is entirely relevant because the argument is that newer...

This seems to be a sticking point: you're thinking that a lack of rules for specific activities mean they can't be attempted in the game. On the contrary, it means that no action is off-limits due to there being rules for some and not others. I got completely wrapped up in character building...

That's a profound misrepresentation of how OD&D classes are played. In a game with 4 fighting men and 4 magic users we can have: A savage barbarian from the steppes A nimble swashbuckler A stealthy scout A holy warrior for a church A pointy-hatted mage A witch who consorts with spirits A monk...

What Christopher Tolkien thinks doesn't really matter. His father, to my knowledge, didn't include any clear reference to orcs being anything but elves corrupted by Sauron. I'd like to be wrong. I very much like the notion of orcs as feral, ubiquitous enemies, but that conception appears to...

If you haven't tried already, you're probably better off going to the forums for those particular games, or Dragonsfoot. BFRPG boards here. S&W here. ENworld is strongly 4E-centric. You probably won't get much traction here.

For absolute newbies, I use Dungeon Squad. Once players have a grasp of what RPGs are, they can decide for themselves whether they want to play a fantasy roleplaying game or a supers boardgame with roleplaying elements.

LotR makes many references to "half-orcs", but that can reasonably be interpreted as "half-corrupted elf", rather than a true-breeding species. D&D's bestiary doesn't come straight from the pen of Gygax, though. Most traditional D&D monsters are derivatives of the many fey beasties that...

Thanks for the link. That's all 3E stuff. The last feats update was 4 months after 4E's release, but I'm assuming that it was violating the OGL before that. In that regard, we can't ignore the fact that while 3E was initially published by a company run by gamers, for gamers, 4E is published...

Can you link me to some?

That post pretty much nails it. Remember, too, that 4E relies on tropes that were begun by D&D but incubated elsewhere. All of the super-fantasy themes that 4E took from Magic, WoW and anime only exist because those entertainments are the spiritual descendants of OD&D. Without the...

"Don't ask, don't tell" sounds a lot like "suspend an axe over the necks of enthusiastic gamers". It's not nice to menace the fanbase with uncertain terms and conditions. It's understandable that Hasbro doesn't want to test the legal limits of its stated policies, but having a legal team...

An old question but a good one. I'm asking how you began playing RPGs in general, not the system/edition you're currently using. My introduction was a bit unorthodox: my primary school ran Basic D&D as lunchtime activity, with a teacher DMing. I started at age 8 and never looked back.

There's no option for Corinthian columns.

Well, if you want to get Tolkien-ish about it, halflings ARE shorter humans.