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Humans, elves, and half-elves are what I commonly play. Every once in a while I'll roll up a dwarf, but they don't usually last too long (the 20' movement kills me). I've played a halfling once. Never played a half-orc or gnome. I mostly play humans because I can best identify with them and...

No, he's just using the same interpretation of demons that I and Goblyn share--as beings formed from the raw stuff of the Abyss, demons are chaos and evil incarnate. You could no more convince them to stop being evil than you could convince a snake to fly. You could even consider them...

It took us two years to finish. We played every other week for about 1/2 to 2/3 of that time, and the remainder of it we played weekly. Occassionally--rarely--we would play twice a week, usually on holiday weekends or other special events.

It's like a Sphere of Annihilation, but it only works if you eat the whole thing. And it only annihilates your waistline.

Fair enough. I suppose I used Moria as an example because, in my mind at least, it is the granddaddy of all dungeon crawls, even if their goal simply was to cross from one side to the other. My point was this: if you have a hundred room dungeon, and only half of those rooms have anything...

The way I see it, alignment in D&D exists for two reasons: 1) To provide a basic framework for roleplaying; and 2) To provide a game mechanic by which the characters and creatures can interact with certain spells (Protection From Good), magic items (Robe of the Archmagi), and supernatural...

In that case, I would call empty dungeon rooms busywork. I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to pull my hair out after spending 10-15 minutes searching a room for traps, secret doors, etc., only to find absolutely nothing of interest in there. There were hundreds, nay, thousands of...

We had a new player join our group last night. Several hours into the game, we were looting a halfling wizard who had tried to ambush us. The DM rattled off his many magic items, eventually coming to.... DM: "...and a keyring." N00b: "What's a keyring?" We laughed for ten minutes straight...

The DM described the characters as vanishing into thin air. We had no way of knowing they had been disintegrated, especially since the DM didn't give my wizard a skill check to recognize the effect (never mind that I actually had Disintegrate in my spellbook...grr).

The rest of the party stepped into the same trap, grabbed him, and plane shifted back, IIRC. I take it the players had to roll up new characters? Or did your DM allow a "take-back"? Yep, we rolled new characters. I wasn't particularly happy about the situation, either. My 20 Int wizard...

When I played in that adventure, the party was convinced that the items of power needed to become the chosen of Tharizdun (or something...it's been two years) were hidden inside that strange floating black ball in one of the rooms. So we talked the half-orc into reaching into the ball and...

I actually like Middle-Earth and would probably enjoy playing a game that was set there. I'm just an all-or-nothing type of person. Orcs and halflings have always felt like cheap knockoffs of the real thing to me. If you look at a lot of the third-party settings (and even some of TSR's own...

All of the espionage and shadow wars going on between the Houses makes the megacorp analogy even more fitting.

My gaming group has a house rule when it comes to making replacement characters. The new character has to have either a different class or race than the previous character. So you could replace a human paladin with a dwarf paladin or a human ranger, but not another human paladin. It keeps...

Since we're not allowed to take specific situations into consideration, I had to vote character death. Most of the games I've played in have not involved terribly deep roleplaying, and so when confronted with a choice between making a new character who is fully equipped and an old character who...

What I don't like is the all-pervasive magic item in D&D. It's become so easy to get ahold scrolls, potions, and low-level weapons and armor, they've become merely tools instead of items of awe and wonder. I don't mind the spellcasting, but I do mind the magic item becoming just another piece...

I, too, balked at the idea of D&D as the Middle-Earth Roleplaying Game. So, I just tossed out anything that resembled Middle Earth. There are no elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, or halflings in my homebrew. My dragons do not talk, nor do they covet gold. They have the mental capacity of the...

I like the sheer volume of rulebooks for D&D. D&D has always been really well supported by both the publisher and other companies. With so much stuff (rules, classes, monsters, etc.) to choose from, it's easy to make a world that's different from the next guy's. I think that's why D&D is...

Well, I know that's how we used to play in oWoD...dunno if it was an official rule or not, though.

Obould Many-Arrow'd I'd like to think he ends up a pincushion, only with arrows instead of pins. That would be deliciously ironic.