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I must admit the one thing that gives me pause is the armored clerics. But then on reflection, that's one of my primary problems with original D&D in the first place.

What I've been thinking about lately (in 3E/d20) is to switch back to a 1E award stance where most of your XP comes from securing treasure. Call it a "Story Award" where the award kicks in (the monster or trap's XP) when you get the monster's treasure. So on the one hand you get no XP for...

Actually, I'll have to disagree with your understanding of how AD&D initiative worked -- that's not how it worked at all. I'd love to know where you think AD&D "said initiative was not so important". It almost sounds like you're thinking of another game entirely. 1E AD&D DMG p. 63:

1E - 3E DMGs were quite consistent, that's what I use: Lowest level base soldiers (0-level or War1), 3rd level sergeant, lieutenant level 4-5.

I'd argue that what also matters is: How easily you can find other people to play with you. (That is, in business parlance, the "network effect": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect ).

Patient: "Doc, whenever I do this it hurts." Doctor: "So stop doing that."

Well, you can't quite say "not get a mention". In the DMG there's 3-4 magic items that grant it. The psionic combat tables take it into account. The "make a demon" appendix has it in a table. Etc.

But it's definitely in the Glossary, I just saw it there.

Could be either, actually. See top of DMG p. 82. There's an option there to either (a) treat it like any other number, or (b) treat the second "20" as meaning "natural 20 only". When dealing with THACO/attack bonuses, I treat a natural 20 as "25", which is more like option (a) but synchs up...

I call "genius", I like it. As DM I'd take the opportunity to attack other PCs, sounds like a likely TPK.

"Magic Resistance" in 1E. See the Glossary. (Needless renaming of stuff in later editions, I frown on you.)

I think you've seen my house rules -- I'll say it again, the initiative rules in the DMG are inherently contradictory. You have just got to streamline them, because it's not logically possible to follow exactly what's written there. There's an exceedingly beautiful system to be had if you...

None of the above.

Side note: I really only played core 3.0, with very few supplements added. No 3.5. Nothing from WOTC after Uneathed Arcana. 1. Psionics bad in 3E. Like them in 1E -- I want very unique short mechanics for spice, not a spell-like mechanic taking up a whole book. 2. Tome of Battle is...

I don't play 20 questions. You asked for a quote, you got it. Now I am done with your questioning.

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100% disagree with all of that. Even the designers are on record as saying they basically rebuilt the whole 4E system from scratch.

Consider this recent poll: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/241313-d-d-3rd-edition-d-d-4th-edition-group-schisms.html 4E caused a schism in my group, but not 3E -- 14.68% 3E caused a schism in my group, but not 4E -- 1.59% Both 3E & 4E caused a group schism -- 2.38% That's...

Yeah, that's more-or-less what I do. Best of luck!

You did notice that someone earlier in this thread said "The biggest problem with D&D is that it's D&D"? Did I make that up?