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I joined the local Racquetball, Swim, and Health Club. I am trying to get back into shape for baseball season this summer. With a complete set of 3.5e books as well as a random assortment of BECMI, 1e, 2e, and 4e books, I think I have everything I need to game for the foreseeable future.

To put it simply - I would take the inspiration of the 1e DMG, with the options of the 3.5e PHB, coupled with the simplicity of the 4e MM. To me, that would be the ideal game.

I am going to ignore the rest of your questions as I do not have very well formed thoughts on those issues. These two questions, though, I will comment on. Rolling abilities and hit points allow me to think about character concepts in a new way. How does a fighter work with minimum hit points...

Because they sold 4e as having this feature. People made purchases based (partly) on that. People have a right to be angry when that feature is not available. I do not see anger as necessarily being a negative. Often times it can help focus on where you are weak and thus where you can improve...

True. We don't know. That is why we leave ourselves room to maneuver by not being specific about when a product will be ready until we are absolutely certain of that date. Had WotC done that initially we would not be have these debates. Or, at the very least, they would not be as frequent. I...

I will not comment on 4e "superiority" to B/X other than to say both are different and equally fun. As to the point of whether 4e represents a new category of its own - I am not sure. It holds a lot of the features of both the Basic and Advanced versions of the game. Perhaps it is more like a...

Certainly. It is pretty much a known fact. And that is what makes it troubling that WotC management and marketing went ahead with the advertising of the features as being available at the release of 4e. They could have saved themselves a lot of these headaches by initialy labeling these products...

True. Although, I have found that most people I have gamed with use the monster CR to character level chart in the DMG to give out xp. YMMV of course. My preferred way of doing xp is per adventure - complete that adventure, however you like, and you go up a level. I tired doing a gp based xp...

A good reminder about what I love about early edition gaming. This desire to acquire more, as you call it, contrasted against the desire to survive made our characters act very cautiously. They were also forced to be more creative in how they overcame challenges. With so much of the experience...

Ah, yes it is. If I bought a product, any product, and found that all of the features being advertised as part of that product were not working or were delayed - then I do have a right to be upset. WotC marketed 4e with having all these digital features being part of the product and strongly...

Exactly, they cannot satisfy me for what they already failed to deliver. The online gaming experience is what I most looked forward to. It is what got me to purchase my Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Masters Guide. As of right now those products have been virtually useless to me...

And I agree with you entirely on that point. If everything is written so that the PCs cannot do anything then the PCs cannot do anything. (I feel like Yogi Berra!) However, you can write things so that it encourages roleplaying opportunities. Just because I closed one door does not mean that...

From a theoretical standpoint I think his ideas are intriguing and could possibly lead to more exciting and dynamic combats. However, there are two practical arguments that need to be overcome. First, resistances are a pretty simple concept to understand. They are easy enough to re-skin. And...

I am sorry but I do not see a problem here - I see a challenge to overcome. How do I succeed despite the King's restrictions. Maybe there is a general who is sympathetic... Maybe we can find out who is to see the King today and go in their stead... Maybe we sneak into the King's chambers and...

That's an interesting perspective - a campaign world that is almost a living-breathing entity. Let me ask you then... do your players ever feel as though the situation has become hopeless? What I mean is that does the world's story ever eclipse the players story? I have always gamed with the...

As a Player: Player's Handbook Set of Dice Character's Miniature plus Companions Laptop with PDFs of Other Books Notebook Pens and Pencils Character Sheet Dinner plus a Few Snacks As a DM: All the Above Dungeon Master's Guide Monster Manuel Campaign Notes Monster Miniatures

I do, or at least I understand where he is coming from. It is an issue of consistency. If a group of first level characters travel to a city that city should, in all ways, be the same city that a group of eighteenth level characters encounter. The same holds true for dungeons, dragons, wizards...

A little anecdote for you... when I was in high school I had a history teacher who stood about 5'6" and was a master in a particular martial art. One day, a fight broke out between a couple of rather large guys. As my teacher stepped in to break up the fight one of the guys took a swing at him...

If you "tweak" the game enough you can really do anything with any edition. That being said, I do feel that some editions enable me to run certain kinds of adventures better than other editions. I cannot say for certain whether this is because the rules themselves are attuned to one particular...

Is it possible for one of the three of you to offer some industry wide statistics that back up these claims? More so than "The impression I get..." or "Anecdotal evidence I see..." or "The groups I play in..." or "A poll at enworld said..." My fifteen years of gaming experience with over fifty...