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You could just remove arcane thesis on the basis that its brokety broke broke.

Darksun already is a PoL setting and has been since it wa first released. Your personal preferences aside, there is no reason why a Planescape version set in the current cosmology couldnt work. The fact that you like the current version doesnt mean a new version would be terrible or a mockery...

Playing from BECMI to 3.x we didnt use miniatures at all. None of us came from a wargaming background and I dont think it really occurred to us that minis were necessary. I dont think however we were typical if the number of minis that used to be on sale or advertised in dragon were anything...

And every 4e thread has the usual suspects coming in to tell everyone why 4e is a terrible game which killed their childhood. When people start comparing the release of a game to rape you know people have lost perspective. What was your point again?

If your kids are young I would suggest Faery's Tale. Its an excellent introduction rp, very simple rules and very accessible.

Then you arent really looking hard enough. Dragonsfoot, the OD&D board to say nothing of the various recent old school releases, Labyrinth Lord etc.

I am not touching the rest of this thread but I dont get this at all. Unless you are reading bad D&D fiction very few wizards in literature do anything that comes even close to what magic does in D&D. Hell, its not even that close to magic in Jack Vances stuff.

I started looking at Arcane Reach and then at the spells it actually affects. There aren't all that many of them. Look to see if it will really give you that much benefit before sucking up all the Dex points.

I dont see anyone in this thread advocating slavery so of course the GM can walk away. However, when I game I do so with friends. If a person dislikes something then we are able to sit down and discuss why they dont want a particular element in the game. That can be as simple as "I dont like...

I am also of the old school which says that when playing with friends some give and take is in order and that the goal is for everyone to enjoy themselves. Then again my groups default position also involves a lot of player generation of game material.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the thread. Is there any particular reason you try to turn everything into an edition war?

It is much easier to ignore novels than specific setting game material.

Personally I like the Anathema although I could have done without pulling three of them. Now, if you had mentioned the Hellwasp Swarm then you might have had a point. Personally I think the enormous carrion crawler looks silly although it freaked my players out a bit. One of them had just...

There is a review of the module here which makes very similar points. This may be the first D&D module I have bought in over 10 years.

You may want to try something other than D&D or trad games. There are a huge number of indie games out there that do exactly this. Giving players direct input into the setting, the history, the story, their opposition and other elements of the game is not just encouraged but explicit within...

I second this suggestion, we use red poker chips for healing surges. It is very effective especially as the players start fretting over those dwindling little piles of chips.

Perhaps because one of the reasons people will often play those classes is so that they dont have to do a load of book keeping.

While this is true about core classes what I took from the Beta document was that they wanted to make the core classes competative with multiple PrC'd multiclassed characters. I dont think that they succeeded but I think that was their intent.

I could see how you might want to run a ship to ship dogfight where your sails/engines/magical thingamajig were knocked out and you had to manage a desperate fight against the enemy while at the same time trying to avoid crashing to your deaths. Of course you dont need to have lots of different...

As do I. In fact there was also a very lengthy run of articles in Dragon focusing on the adventures of the crew of one such ship called The Voyage of the Princess Ark.