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Doesn't mean much of anything. 1st and most important thing needed - a decent script. That's something we'll not know a thing about until either they cancel the whole thing as being too bad to keep pouring money into, or we see it on screen. Everything else is just blind speculation and...

It ain't what you play - it's how you play it. However... Edition X surely doesn't lend itself to playstyle Y as much as edition Z does. Can 5E be made as deadly as 0E? Sure. But 0E doesn't have to TRY to do that. It is that. Can 0E be LESS deadly like 5E is? Sure. But 5E doesn't have...

People only consider 1E and 2E thief %'s in terms of modern D&D mechanics and style of gameplay. That makes the earlier mechanics seem rather too inexplicably wacky, especially 1E. In 3E if you come across a trap all the PC's roll a d20 against their search or spot skills to find it, a roll is...

Only needed to be said because so many people NEED economics classes. :rolleyes:

How expensive is TOO expensive can only be determined by the individual consumer. However, the higher the cost you place on your product the more of a barrier to purchase it becomes. And consumers will shy away from really high-cost all-in-one packages, regardless of "bang for buck", because...

Yeah, I've done it before. The campaign played out like D&D meets the X-files. It became impossible for me to actually reconcile all the loose ends of plots and clues so I just wound up ignoring a lot of them or twisting their meaning unforgivably, not unlike, "What I told you is true - from a...

Other: All the above. My preferred style of campaign includes all those elements. Even in a campaign intended for one single style to dominate the others the importance that the other elements still be there is not diminished. And I personally don't have a preference for a campaign that...

I must have had money burning holes in my pocket when 4E came out. I bought the PH, DMG, and MM all at once. I skimmed through it quite superficially, and then never ran it nor had opportunity to play it. I said for a long time that I was willing to at least TRY it as a player but had...

No, it's that Charm Person only worked on a defined list of "persons", and Charm Monster only worked on monsters, not persons.

I have houseruled them out deliberately in the past, but stopped doing that soon enough when I DID realize I didn't need to - because nobody was ever interested in them.

I think 3rd Edition E6 may be the best take on D&D ever. Bar none. And I started playing with the Holmes edition in 1977 and have continued through to 5E.

Tramp's cover of the 1E DM screen. Nothing else really even in consideration.

No need for willful disregard for PC survival and player fun either. Nobody rolled a fighter? That's not cause to be vindictive until someone does roll a fighter. It is, in fact, cause to adjust difficulty to suit the ACTUAL PC's and not run the game ONLY geared for what you consider the...

About the only personal experience I have with it is back in the latter half of the '70's when I first started playing. There was one player who was... just too enthusiastic about his character's interaction with a prostitute in game. The DM let it go at first but the player wasn't taking...

:cautious:1E AD&D is honestly a mixed bag. There is SO MUCH great stuff in it that should never - EVER - have been cut out. Yet much of what built D&D into what it actually is has been removed in subsequent editions by designers who actually want it to be something other than what made it...

And if you need 500 pages of rules from manuals at your table to play your chosen RPG you need a new RPG. I don't think there's anything wrong with a solid list of table rules. EVERY time you read another post about how this or that game fell apart because someone did one of those things that...

And of course it includes notes at the outset that it isn't expected that everyone agree with everything as written therein. It's a starting point for people to work out their own issues, create their own "manifesto" that includes the things that they think need to be mentioned. Well the...

A "similar" document that I wrote for comparison: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojs81rd3446s6lz/D%26D%20Manifesto.odt?dl=0 The DM is indeed in charge but the way the OP is phrasing it makes it sound like the players are there only to serve the DM's entertainment, rather than it actually being far...

I assume this is a classical LG paladin and not one of the new "paladins that aren't what paladins were ever supposed to be" that I hate with the flame of 1000 suns, because as others have pointed out that would easily invalidate the expressed concerns. I also assume that this has not already...

"RAW" as a constant reference to being some authoriteh to which DM's must bow is something I object to. It suggests that some game publisher umpteen years ago knew better than you what you and your friends wanted and needed for your ongoing game right now, and that all possible circumstances...