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I consider myself a grognard and I like 3.5. Ya, I hate losing Ausf-Gs like that.

When rolling stats, roll 4 dice, drop the lowest, then re-roll 1's.

Mine is the picture of the Animated Dead from the d20 CoC book for which I was the model. So it's me as I appear in a d20 book.

Succubus jumps out at me. Next, i'm thinking maybe just a 3rd level commoner who can use the king's lust to fulfill her base desires. In the first case, she'd stay in the background, keep from being found out and if the king was killed, hide out with the kids until she can find another cat's...

Not quite, because any attack that does hit point damage would inflict a save versus poison if the weapon were poisoned and would reveal damage resistance if present. There are probably some other examples. This would not happen if hit point loss could be near misses or deflections. Either you...

So long as everybody is having fun, i don't really worry about it. There are powergamers in RL, from min/maxed jocks to one trick wonders on UFC, so i don't worry about when they show up in game. I usually reward good use of spells and rules by letting them get away with it. My one big threat is...

Lifepath (CP2020 and others) Basically, a system as part of character creation that allowed you to come up with your character's history up to that point. A flowchart with lots of rolling to come up with lots of complex histories. What was your parents social standing? Were you an only child...

I'll go with weather, especially snow and dangerous weather. Even today, there is still weather that is too cold to go out in and mountain passes are closed part of the year. I've rarely ever seen an adventure put off till later because the passes were closed due to mud or snow or because the...

I'm pretty happy with 3.5 and in 4E simply want some cleaning up of trouble spots and prehaps reorg of contents. One thing that bugs me is paying of XP to make magic items, or any other reason. It's a stupid mechanic and I don't think it serves its supposed purpose of balance. Some new item...

I missed them along with Rot grubs, trappers, etc and bought Tome of Horrors within a week of buying the core three books of 3.5.

The Dreaming in the U District is one of my favorites. Gary's Games has a great selection plus a large used games section. Both have boards for putting up Looking For Players ads or finding them. There are tons of other game stores in the area.

Selling all of it, never. When I moved I left all except a few games worth of stuff and simply told all my friends they could pick through everything else after I left (they showed up within hours of me leaving). I miss alot of that stuff including my complete 2nd ed Talasmin set of games...

Correct, that's why paladins must also be lawful, to guide them in their decisions on when to kill evil or not. Guy walking down the street in a major city, probably not. Monsters in the wilderness that will not ever follow societies rules, probably.

Nature & Demeanour (oWoD) Every character had a Nature and a Demeanour. Nature was how you really were and Demeanour was how you appeared to others (or was it the other way around?). Choices were listed in the books and could both be the same thing. They were part of the Willpower system for...

IMC, a paladin's job is to lawfully hunt down and cleanse evil. That's their job. Killing the tadpoles would be the norm (although as good, the paladin would take no pleasure in such work). If he thought they could be redeemed by either setting them free, taking them to other authorities, or...

+100 bonus XP to frankthedm As DM, I'd consider the paladin justified in most actions. Kill them, take them to superiors for judgement, keep them or let them go for a second chance. The last two are the risky ones and by doing so, he'd be betting his paladinhood that they will not commit more...

My elves and fey are lawful, even hyper-lawful. The elven culture is governed completly by the laws as given to them by the gods and as further written by the groups of elves empowered by the gods to do so. The most dangerous elf one can have as an enemy is an elven lawyer, because if you're...

WoD! In my case and those I played games with (in three different cities), it was a mass migration to Vampire. New game and new system plus influx of new (previsouly non-gamer) players (of which many were female) meant that 2E got played less and less even though everybody had migrated over from...

Because you could continue to use your older books rather than having to buy all new stuff and then never use the old stuff again without lots of work. If they did come out with minor changes, your old monster manual, adventures, and even player's handbook would probably make due until you could...

No, GenCon. Friends of mine that used to work at WotC are betting that they announce this year and release at GenCon '08. That matches the schedule they were familiar with when they worked there after some messing around due to the 3.5 release. On top of that, friend who usually likes to talk...