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You kill it? You clean it and fry it. Waste no meat.

Now that I have a little more time to look at it, it resembles a ninja half-mask made out of a pair of old women's nylons. Yeesh.

Just as an addendum to the discussion, here are the poll results from the magic item article. Magic items should be... A reward given out by the DM. 87.3% A part of character advancement chosen by players. 12.7% Reward from the dungeon master for the win.

What in the name of Saint Foutin is this guy wearing on his face? :confused: Is that :):):):)ing superhero mask? :erm:

Dwarf Fighter . . . . . . kill orcs, find treasure, consume copious amounts of ale.

This.

The adventurers turned the tables on a group of bravos ambushing a pair of merchants in a Parisian alley. The leader of the bravos fired off a shot at the adventurers to cover his escape, after most of his gang was killed or captured by the adventurers. However good a character may be with a...

An adventurer can be scared of anything the player chooses to be scary for hher character. Getting the player to react with genuine trepidation usually takes a significant threat to the character, in my experience, which goes back to my earlier post about level drain and petrification. One of...

You may make the players and their characters cautious by the description, but you won't scare them until they feel like their characters are in actual peril. In my experience, very few, unless the adventurers would reasonably know what a bugbear was, such as previous encounters with bugbears...

There's an old saw that the only things old school D&D players fear are petrification and level drain. The most colorful description in the world won't scare anyone if they don't feel there's a credible threat to their characters.

Agreed, and I consider "substantial player input" key. I think of it this way, that the dice are there to determine not what a character can do, but rather how well the character does it. In the games I run, if you want your character to bluff the guard at the gate of the baron de Bauchery's...

Check out some of the Old School Renaissance modules for OD&D/Swords and Wizardry (the OD&D retroclone).

:confused: Seriously, I recognize each of the words individually, but put together in that order, they make no sense at all.

Glad I could help. ;) That's a really interesting notion, actually. Combat drug in original, "classic" Traveller increases your character Strength and Endurance each by two; these are also used as the character's hit points, along with Dexterity. Once the drug wears off, however, the extra...

Old Geezer is Mike Mornard; he was a player in Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign, Gary Gygax's Greyhawk campaign, and Professor Barker's Tékumel campaign - some impressive gaming bona fides. Here's one of Mr Morland Mornard's posts on rpg.net. And here's another And another. And one more...

This can be taken to what are, to me, absurd extremes, however, where a player feels that the only thing he needs to do to convince an npc of something is roll against a number on his character sheet.

As I recall, the comparison was to the 1938 Errol Flynn movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood, specifically the duel between Mr Flynn and Basil Rathbone, not Robin and Marian. the duel between Mr Flynn and Basil Rathbone If you have a link citing a reference to the latter, that would be...

Coolest. Thing. EVAH!

Okay, now I follow your meaning much better. Most of my house rules are not of the 'change things I don't like about the game' variety; I'm pretty picky about what I'll run, and there are a lot of choices out there, so finding a game I like pretty much as written isn't that hard for the most...

Yup. The blow that the high-level fighter blocks with his shield, or takes on the armor, or luckily dodges, or narrowly nicks him, is the same blow that would lay him out for the angels at low level. Hit points are pretty damn elegant when you think about it.