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I always figured that the sewers that PCs are exploring underneath the city are so large they can be explored, rather than just being a collection of small pipes running everywhere, was for vermin control (which PCs always end up doing). If they were just small pipes as needed for sewage and...

Fortified villages with watches. Homes are built like small forts with thick doors that can be barred and windows too small for an orc to climb though. Sheds and the like are secured and built to make sure nothing like a stirge can get inside. In the mornings, the watch or militia probably make...

You're wrong. The old ENworld had character and told stories, the new ENworld is nothing but overuse of stock iconic characters. :-P

My favorite, 1E with UA and large 3-ring binder of house rules. Although I am close to changing that over to 3.5 with large computer file of house rules.

Never really had an issue with it. I make the player's decide if it is a cooperative game or competitive game at the start (meaning, "do you allow backstabs between characters?", they always have chosen cooperative) just so all player's are working with the same understanding. In all my...

Which means getting somebody besides Mike to do them. While I usually agree with his reasoning for doing the makeover, I typically hate everything he comes up with as a solution. A social vrs combat idea would be neat, but would also require the XP system to detail social situations and how XP...

My pet peeves: 1) That building magic items costs XP. It's a poorly thought out kludge that doesn't do what it supposed to 9and I'm not even really sure what that is). It has no presidence in D&D and there is nothing else like it in the mechanics short of level drain, and it causes issues of...

I'd say there are plenty of RL example of adventurers, there are just few epic RL challenges they have had to face. Ask around and you'll probably find somebody pretty quick who has traveled, had adventures in foreign lands, possibly been in more fights than you ever will, and have it sound like...

Another reason 1E art is better than 3E. Seriously, nothing has harmed 3E art more IMHO than cramming those stupid iconics in everywhere and killing nay sort of creativity. Even Dungeon has their own iconics.

I never had any trouble with manufacture times really and when I did, i thought they were too little. Three years for a near atifact level items seems about right. To be honest, I have more issue with the amount of gold* and XP** spent on such items. If it came up, I'd probably house rule it so...

Ideally, I'd say that yes, that PrCs should be better than remaining a base class, but I'd also say that they should be encumbered by other, mainly RP factors. Of course, it seems most players and DMs simply forget those other factors so they are just a power class. IMC, I like to use them for...

It'll come out even if we have to work Jason to death and then animate his body to finish the work. I'm also waiting for UnMet (as I am helping to play test). I'm also expecting my first game out in 2007 as a PDF.

Everybody used it and played with at least some of it. Of coruse, like all of AD&D, what was and wasn't used or allowed was up to the individual DM and that varied from game to game. Comeliness expanded characters and made another dump stat if nothing else. Never saw more than one or two...

I never cared for Erol Otuus. In fact, the ony reason I know the name is because I notably disliked his artwork so much as to figure out which artist it was. I do love Willingham, including the above image. I do think that current books and art direction lack the diverse styles of the old books...

It's fairly easy to learn and simple to play. While being first probably has something to do with the systems popularity and longevity, I think they actually got some things right the first time around. As far as RPGs go, it's a fairly good balance between complexity and playability. Other...

But D&D is the sim fantasy business, the business is adventuring. How many adventures involve getting something for somebody else so they can make money? How many involve escorting caravans? Most any adventure that doesn't stick it to the PCs by expecting them to do something out of the goodness...

First, try asking your DM. If you can make money at all, he has to allow it. Sounds like you tried, but could be that you just made some bad mistakes. Tell your Dm that your character wants to make some money, and with his intellegence he should be able to come up with several ways to do it with...

I'll take Sylvan elves with as much sidhe as I can stuff in there. The only other thing I take is from Elfquest Elves and as elves grow older, they grow taller. This is how their race ages. Instead of getting wrinkles and gray hair, they grow taller and thinner as their general body mass doesn't...

They might mean the backstory. Even then, what does exist is very, very scant compared to oWoD, and to be honest, it was the backstory and metaplot that made WoD what it was.

Name, domain, and some fluff text in how they relate to the other gods is all I have for mine. Many were made up whole of cloth while others, such as th barbarian pantheon, were taken from RL pantheons. For that one, I had found a webpage on old pre-Christian pantheon from the area of Poland and...