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I voted Basic in my haste but actually was thinking of the BRP (Chaosium, inspiration for RuneQuest). That's my kinda old school - each attack can wreck limbs, man... Fwiw, also getting into Dragon Warriors. Yes, neither are OD&D clones, I realize.

Congrats on your successes! I ran the Age of Worms for a few years on dndonlinegames.com. It was a lot of fun. The weakest link at the end of a few years was me as the DM not being able to keep up - running combat, particularly, got to be kind of brutal at higher levels in 3.5e, keeping track...

Good post, and thanks for sharing Mearls' post about RPing in 4e, Piratecat. Gave me another perspective on it. I'm still concerned that we're scenario-ing 4e away from rp-ing, but seeing how Mearls (and many of the posters here) approaches it gives me some hope.

In response to the responses to my post earlier about how the defined roles damage the ability for players to actually role play characters: I think by making the characters fit into niches in the party explicitly (leader, controller, etc.), it damages the ability for a player to roleplay...

Anybody else grab the Castles & Crusades or Dragon Warriors freebies? I'd seen C&C plenty over the past few years, but it looks like the rehash they're doing this Summer has organized the rules a bit more to my liking. Dragon Warriors seems very early-Runequest/Palladium. Me likey a lot...

I'll add that I play WoW and love it. I just don't like mixing my two hobbies to the point where the lines are beyond blurred.

Re: controller, tank, etc - that's just the point. We've gotten away from roleplaying and into imitating our favorite video games. Archetypes are one thing, but defining roles so that Leaders are always certain classes like Warlord, but never a Wizard, is bunk.

RuneQuest (talk about dangerous combat...), Call of Cthulhu, Moldvay D&D

You mean you don't just pass around your old Moldvay boxed set for everyone to reference, while they're eating snacks? ;)

Never has there been so much nostalgia for so little content as Greyhawk - and don't take that the wrong way - the reason I think many folks cling to it so is that it was intentionally vague in its setting, with defined factions, nations and a handful of NPCs, so that "my" Greyhawk would of...

My take is that the detail by the time you hit the end of 2nd edition and into 3rd started to get a little too much for casual play. The Gray Box was fantastic - 2 booklets w/ enough intriguing NPCs, maps, and plot hooks to last literally years of play, without the players having to know the...

I think for some of us creating a world in and of itself is almost as big a source of enjoyment as playing the game itself - especially if one is also a writer building out backstory for fiction. Remember, that's how the Forgotten Realms really started! :)

I second TWERPS. A bunch of blog postings from a few gamers about it, recently, actually. It was the king of beer-and-pretzel RPGs in the 90s, with a single stat, a ton of brief source books for different genres, and a good time had by all who played it at my table.

Netbooks like the Acer D150 are changing the notion of "portable computers". Less than $400 and with lots of power and long-life batteries... I highly recommend them for reading PDFs at the gaming table and even some of the less demanding gaming on the go...

I remember really liking The Endless Stair as a kid. I think it was a little bit more cosmic than some of the other CM adventures, if I recall... And Greenwood's gaming stuff was always up my alley, so having his first foray - why not?

I ran a long running Greyhawk Age of Worms game on the dndonlinegames.com boards for a few years, and it was a lot of fun. That said, it's a huge commitment and you need to have players who optimally would be able to post a few times a day, because to be real about it they won't - so if the...

Thanks! - @tylerthehobo

Thanks! - @tylerthehobo

I would point to the most recent episode of "The Game's the Thing" (episode 54) at: The Game's the Thing for a rather negative testimonial by someone who's tried to use graphical PDF's on the kindle. I have no doubt it's getting there, but, well...not yet for the purposes of a gaming text.

My understanding from recent threads about Palladium is that the 1st edition was more fantasy oriented and its own animal, while the second edition was basically the first set updated to rules more in line with those used by Rifts and other palladium products. My brother had the black covered...