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I'm desperately trying to figure how this isn't regarded an edition wars thread by this point. Lots of accusatory language about how to 'do it right' by both sides of the fence. I was hoping to read through tonight and see a few suggestions on how to actually meld the two systems or even work...

Hmm, overall I would say I'm vastly underwhelmed by this set. Admittedly I no longer buy these miniatures (for various reasons I won't go into here). I tend to draw my own critters and print them out as 2d miniatures now, especially since its very rare that my group uses typical races for our...

Hmm. This is pure speculation but I'm seeing that as a definite problem with the DM more than anything. Its one thing to be unlucky at some dice rolls, but taking 3 hours to just start the given quest? That's a rather extravagant amount of time to be wandering around trying to figure out what...

Short answer? no. I have to admit that I like the new system. I also realize that to put in every spell from 3.5 into the current edition's core books would have increased the size dramatically to the point where the wizard alone would have taken up a good 100 pages on powers. I do agree...

There should be pie. ..Also ham. Celebratory ham pie!

Six sessions across two campaigns so far. Summer is bad for us to get together on since there are vacations/tournaments/etc. that suddenly spring up. First campaign featured custom races and a couple traditional races. They fit into their roles nicely however we really had to revise how we...

So far it has been a success at our table for a couple reasons. The first (and foremost) is that we are gaming again after stopping over 2 years ago. We replaced the void with Warcraft until that got incredibly stale at which point 4e as announced. Since then we've been churning out character...

While I can't say for certainty if this is truth or not, I know that in my case I would outright abandon anything released under this model. Subscription based would be hard to adhere to from a gamer standpoint. I have problems just getting my players to agree to a day to game once a month let...

..I'm so going to have a mad doctor named Von Kragel in my next campaign.

I have to admit that I'm driven a little loopy that the Druid was left out of the core books as well. Though admittedly not from a symmetry standpoint and more from a 'core classes first' standpoint. I also miss the Barbarian since a lot of my games have a 'tribal' bent.

And yet another thread veers away from its original intent and turns into an exercise in edition superiority. :/

Offline: Very little effect on myself or my players (I DM most of the time). One player does visit online forums and other D&Desque sites, while another player isn't online savvy and generally just visits the Wizards site (I haven't told him about ENWorld since I'm finding it harder to come...

Ugh, I certainly can empathize. We had a really good gaming/general geek interest store here that had a great way of letting people browse almost every book in the store. The 'Preview copy' would be at the front of each stack, with a big sign pasted on the front stating 'Preview copy'. You...

Keen! Thanks for the report. I've had similar experiences as well. I too had to fudge a lot of rolls or at least tone down the weapons that some critters had in the first 3 levels of 3.5. In fact I killed a player's paladin in the first game of 3.0 that I ever ran simply because three of the...

I've only played three games of it myself. We used the PHB 'lite' version of the rules posted here soon after the first demo's were run. I won't say its for everyone. I know of one past player who wouldn't be too thrilled with the rules. However it worked phenomenally well for us despite...

As admittedly tired as I'm getting at the veritable complaint-fest (I had another name for it, but I try to be civil when possible) that seems to be creeping up not by players on the boards, but by people who have done little more than skim a book, I have to interject here that art is subject to...

Hmm. Its not really easy to pinpoint one thing as my stand alone favourite. So far its a toss up between the slimming down of casters, monsters (Its *stupidly* easy to make interesting monsters now), or the larger need for the group to work together as a team to overcome things. I'd have to...

I'm pretty pleased with what I've seen so far. I (and one player) loathed the old magic system. So much so that we simply stopped playing after trying almost every 'variant' system you can think of. So the slight Vancian-ness hardly irks me considering the laundry list that I had to go...

I have *such* evil plans for minions in the upcoming games I'll be running. I won't say what they are here (one player might be watching) but I'm really looking forward to it. And I had planned to use the 'minions have just enough hp to die in one swing/spell' rule anyway to explain away any...

Admittedly none of my players wanted to have a day-job on the side. One did start out as a book restorer before he went on to greater things as a wizard, but in the down time he just wanted to *rest*. Scaling mountains, invading tombs, and killing legendary monsters tends to wear you out. So...