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The feel of magic I agree with Bastoche. The feel of magic has little to do with the system. Any deterministic magic system (which by definition of a game which has rules) is going to have the mystery taken out of it by the players who have views to all the mechanics. You can do one of two...

Heh Temple of Elemental Evil, of course. The 1e adventure. Using it weekly. It's amazing how scared the players are to actually enter the temple. :-)

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No stats for Zuggtmoy available I know, because I looked. I'm working the temple of elemental evil conversion, and well... I'll get to it soon enough. :)

So why are classless systems popular? They're not. D&D has such a large market share that all other systems are in the noise. I think it has a lot to do with ease of use, large player networks, and strong support. Most people who look at D&D see only the last two, but forget that without ease...

back into RPGs with 3E I to have returned to the RPG fold after the release of 3E. I played 1e until high school was over, and then eventually went on to Call of Cthulhu and GURPS in college. But neither of those systems really appealed to me much, and with a full time school load and two jobs...

gurps is the system I wish Mmadsen was playing... So that I wouldn't have to hear his complaints about D&D 3e. :) Well, him and everyone else who wants more realism, or a different magic system, or whatever. There's nothing to make you appreciate D&D 3e than coming back to create a PC in D&D...

PC games versus table-top RPGs I honestly don't think the RPG field is the same as the PC game field. The reason being is it's pretty obvious when a RPG game suffers from mechanic problems or an obvious lack of time put into it. With video games though the bad coding and writing isn't always...

Hm... Before I had exposure to the PC game industry, I thought it was exciting, glamorous, and fun. Then I worked in it for awhile, and it was well, underpaid, most of the programmers were inexperienced, the code written was really bad, and most games just weren't that great or creative. (And I...

4 players default The reason why 4 players was picked was apparently the surveys WoTC showed 4 players coming in at the low end of the typical group. Since it's easier to scale adventures up than to scale them down, they settled on the 4 player default. Also, with 4 players, you get the...

3e's not perfect but... ... HP is not one of the imperfections. It's a nice abstraction, and much nicer than a lot of others that I've seen. If I were to point to one flaw to be fixed, it's in the way item creation feats are setup. They're not broken, but they definitely could use improvement...

4e is a good 10 years away And to be honest, it doesn't have to be an improvement. 2e wasn't an improvement over 1e. Quite frankly, I don't see VP/WP in 4e, either. I could be surprised, but I don't see the value that the VP/WP would add to my games.

Dichotomy Mmadsen, I've participated in past threads with you, and I'm sorry, but you've always come across as someone who'd rather be playing GURPS than D&D. I certainly encourage you to publish your suggested changes to D&D under the OGL (and the d20 licenses) and see how quickly they fail to...

I like D&D 3e fine as it is It's abstract enough, it feels a lot like D&D 1e while playing faster and with less complications, and the rules are consistency. I'm certainly not interested in WP or armor as DR. It may be that a large community of gamers will adopt VP/WP and armor as DR, but my...

Old school vs. New School I think the guys who talk about the new school being about the setting is right. There's a thread over at the gaming report with a bunch of industry bigwigs talking about this: http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=27 You...

Just say no to instakill My players have started to ask me to roll behind the screen so I can fudge rolls in their favor. :) The way I've been rolling, they get scared when I start tossing d20s. In the long run, all those rules work against the players, rather than the DM, so I tend not to use...

Great! I now have over 20 members in the discussion group. (Most simply there to pick up the files) I'm still working on dungeon level four (very slowly). As always, more help is appreciated. You don't have to work on the conversion, you can always just play-test! Goodness knows my notes need...

nothing scares a PC more than death I had my villain kill 3 PCs (one twice, the second time permanently --- or so they think...) through smart tactics and judicious running away, just like the PCs would. They not truly hate him, and were so scared they started recruiting more players to have...

Yuck. For $30... I'll save my money for CoC d20, or any of the other cool stuff coming out. If you truly want the RPG, wait a month for the real stuff. I think the $10 for the D&D adventure game is great, however. (I picked mine up for $4 at half.com)

PCGen startup I think if PCGen started up with just the "WoTC players handbook" loaded and made advanced users go to the other screens it would probably save a lot of confusion. I can see how a lot of potential users would start it up, select "WoTC core rules" and then get hit by things like...