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They eat and farm much as humans do. However, more of their diet still comes from hunting and gathering but from a carefully tended to wilderness. Much of their livestock is free range with elaborate gardens planted inorder to provide food for them in needed.

You mighty ask the PCs what their long term goals are and base it on that.

Funny, i think it is one of the better ones for those exact same reasons. Having the uber character doesn't matter, only your actions and a bit of luck. The adventure I'm running my characters through right now at 1st level could easily be an epic adventure, but it is doable by 1st level if...

Yes actually. Hunters, especially big game hunters carried pistols with them to deal with animals and coup de grace. IIRC, magnum ammunition became popular because of the publicity of such a hunter killing an attacking bear with his pistol that used the new magnum shells. Of course, in RL...

Realisitic modern d20 combat would be lots of hide, move silently, spot, and listen checks. Hiding behind cover. Listen checks to determine the general location of the enemy. Moving silently so the enemy doesn't know you're in a different postion. Making spot checks with bonus for your listen...

I looked into it at the last long discussion about the ToH. IIRC, assuming a 1st level party who knew all the secrets of the Tomb or was able to have their orc servants go down the halls "searching for traps", still could not get the treasure and leave. There is one choke point where a higher...

As frankthedm hinted at, traditionally, the main goal of becoming a lich is escaping death due to old age. in most campaigns I've been in, this is simply not a concern for a PC and thus you would be missing out on the main advantage and cause for the LA.

I like GURPS quirks.

Welcome back! Hopefully you're still doing well and up for GenCon this year so I can buy you a drink.

Centaurs make a good showing. However, they are ill suited for dungeons or cities.

Gathering 5000gp worth of diamonds?

No, I like D&D, but I wouldn't like it as my only system. oWoD is my favorite system, but I wouldn't want to play D&D using it.

I do WW2 re-enactment which involves shooting blanks out of real guns at eachother, and the big thing that strikes me as unrealistic in most RPG combat is the speed and lack of hesitation that it happens at. For HtH or close combat gunfights where everybody is shapshooting, it might make a good...

Keep in mind that the idea of how a soldier fights in warfare was different then also. IIRC, When Marshall did his survey, the idea was that a soldier was supposed to take careful, aimed shots at an expected range of 1000 yards. This was done because they thought that the main obstical was...

Hah. If I had ever tried to keep the tables from the PCs of any of the gaming groups I had in 1st or 2nd edition AD&D, I would have been laughted at. Besides, the to hit tabels were easy to memorize and IIRC, the official character sheets had places to write down all your saves. My players might...

So, in other words, this idea has been tried and failed. The only thing this attempt does is slap the D&D brand on it, kill the old game, and expect the branding and disenfranchised players to keep it afloat. Given the results of the poll, I suspect they would instead simply play other games.

Anderson, Poul. THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS; THE HIGH CRUSADE; THE Burroughs, Edgar Rice, "Pellucidar" Series; Mars Series; Venus Series Derleth, August. Leiber, Fritz. "Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" Series; et al. Lovecraft, H. P. Moorcock, Michael. STORMBRINGER; STEALER OF SOULS; "Hawkmoon" Series...

We metagame it with the understanding that none of the players are going to actually screw eachother over, otherwise, it'll be an entire session questioning the new player and eventually deciding they'd never let them in the party anyway.

And I think that anybody who wants all those points is already playing Warhammer or D&D minis. While I think it would be good to include RPG elements into D&D minis, i don't see the other way around as good for D&D because that's not what people who play D&D want. 1-4 sound nice but there are...

I treated the D series more as a setting and revamped large parts of it to fit the campaign. Players skipped the entire Shrine part of D2 by going off the map into larger tunnel system I had fleshed out. Eclavdra and her faction were Lolth worshipers at odds with the larger but less powerful...