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For some reason, I had that exact problem with my second edition copy of Vampire: the Masquerade. I swear, I purchased at least five copies of that book before it stopped disappearing. Anyways, I think I got a little side-tracked from the OP's original intention with this thread. I've found...

For earlier editions, I have multiple copies of the Player's Handbook, basically because back in the 1E and 2E days, there were never enough copies to go around. Back when "casual gamers" didn't even own a PHB... But I digress. I have four copies of the 1E PHB (two with the idol and two of the...

To speak like a true gamer... :) Is there any masterwork gear I can pick up to balance out my penalty? Oh, hell with it, I'll let the bard do the talking.

I didn't realize that people actually engaged in "avatar dating" until I discovered this phenomenon literally moments ago through the power of google. So now my Knowledge (internet) has increased, although my pity for a certain segment of the population has actually decreased. I didn't realize...

I did play WoW for a while, and I still don't get it. I'm feeling more and more of a disconnect from the "gaming community" of late, but that's really a topic for a different thread. Really, I'm just trying to understand this sense of humor and I'm just not getting it. Maybe I should watch some...

Did you see Stephen Colbert's shows from Iraq? Based on that alone, I'd love to get his running commentary on a party going through a dungeon crawl. or interview the biggest D&D legends, for that matter. Stephen Colbert interviewing Elminster or Drizzt? Mordenkainen? Strahd von Zarovich? I'd...

What immediately springs to mind is the blade of fiery might from 3E's Lord of the Iron Fortress. I don't remember much about it (I think it was an unholy keen flaming burst scimitar), but the adventure focuses on the PCs trying to stop a villain from reforging it. It was forged by efreet...

I have a serious question. Please allow me to preface by explicitly stating that I am serious, no snark is intended or desired. That being said... Why is this funny? I watched this entire video without so much as cracking a smile. I play D&D and I played World of Warcraft a few years ago. Am I...

Stephen Colbert.

Yeah... Making a 4E version of the OD&D style game seemed like a plausible, interesting idea this morning, but reviewing the Rules Cyclopedia and the like makes me realize that I could spend my time better than trying to backwards-engineer 4E. I think I'm just going to straight-up run an OD&D...

One of the things that I'm enjoying more and more about 4E is sharing the history of the game with my current group. I've only got one other old-timer, so our tales of THAC0, the attack matrix, and initiatives rolled on 2d6's or d10's are always fun. Some of my group have expressed an interest...

One thing I would've added to the poll is the race/class method of character generation. I.E., your character's abilities are largely determined by their choice of race and class, rather than alignment, character background, or whatever. I might even go so far as to say that class should...

I did actually run Tomb of Horrors as the kick-off adventure for the paragon tier in my last 4E game. There were several reasons: 1) Most of my group has been playing for around 5-8 years, so none of them have ever gotten to play it but were intrigued; 2) I wanted to see how 4E would treat it as...

The adventure funnel is kinda neat. It's basically a plot map with lists instead of points.

This post might be kinda long, but here goes... In italics, you'll find specific examples for my current campaign. 1) I figure out what the campaign or adventure is "about." I start with a general idea about the major themes and progression of the campaign. Sometimes its a narrative epic...

Human, elf, and dwarf are the big three as far as I'm concerned. I personally see elves as more magical fey creatures, so I put the actual vote in for eladrin. Alot of people are voting for halflings, but I just don't think that they are absolutely vital to every fantasy setting. They always...

I really dig Rappan Athuk myself, but it does cater to a specific play style. It's big and deadly, a fitting tribute to all those 1E megadungeons that you should bring a stack of characters for.

This is reasonably amusing. Wasn't it the 1E DMG where there was a paragraph explaining the different meanings of the word, and they decided to just use level repeatedly because they thought it would be too confusing to use different terms? If I remember correctly, they wanted to call character...

I'm using my homebrew. I don't know if I'd use much of a published setting, they're so sparse that I'd have to do just as much work to put it in my homebrew. I'm considering doing a Greyhawk game for the next campaign (around 590 CY or so), but that's because my current group is unfamiliar...

That's AWESOME. I'd use an application that allowed me to improvise instruments from livestock. Too bad that turkey in the straw is the only thing I'd want to play.