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False. With the actual examples of contemporary play I have seen. With the texts that impart and reinforce it. With what mostly gets talked about when people talk about the game right here at EN world, too. That you are an exception does not nullify the rule. For the most part, people either...

Not in the matter of mathematics that is actually relevant here. In old D&D, I get a better chance to hit as I go up in levels (until that stops accruing). That has no effect whatsoever on anyone else's chance to hit. A monster with a 30% chance to hit has a 30% chance to hit whether it's...

Well, in old (TSR) D&D, a 20th-level fighter gets 20 attacks per round vs. normal men. (Dave Arneson also suggested a provision like your "Cleave".) In old D&D, it's called "morale".

Professor Cirno, have you looked into Raven Crowking's rule set? It looks to me as if the designers of 3e really did not grasp D&D, and either (A) didn't even understand that they didn't understand, or (B) just didn't give a flying fig. Still, they seem to have understood more than the players...

Because I'm fed up with Hussar's arguing over definitions? Because (as he demonstrates right there) he won't take "yes" -- literally, "It's whatever you say it is." -- for an answer? Oh, well. Unreasonable is as unreasonable does.

I'm not seeing where The Shaman even told that to you, so how you figure is surely a puzzle.

Lightning bolts and poison don't work any more?

What's simpler depends on how one's mind works. Too "rules light", and it doesn't click for some people. RISUS might be that for you, even with somebody's "supers" supplement -- but it's just a little download to find out. Four Colors, a.k.a. 4C, is a "retro-clone" (using the term loosely) of...

It's cool that that's why it feels that way, to you. However, I don't think that's "the" reason in the larger context. Original D&D, Empire of the Petal Throne, Metamorphosis Alpha, etc., (mainly the emphasis in spells/mutations, magic/tech items and monsters), Top Secret, Traveller, RuneQuest...

How many hundreds of thousands of players do you expect to be DMing for? Short of an enterprise on that scale, what most people want is not relevant. (Most people are not posting at EN World, either.) I'll bet there have been at least 3 different preferences expressed in 30-some posts to this...

I don't remember an AC bonus by level in 3e, except as a variant in a supplement. In 4e, the sum of reciprocal chances to hit seems to stay about the same, so a bonus for me is a penalty for you. My impression is that the Powers system has a similar effect, more pronounced than Feats in 3e...

"Unique or unique not. There is no 'pretty'."

LOL! As I recall, word was it outsold D&D when they debuted at GenCon. Now, TSR has come and gone, and D&D is a name on distinctly different designs -- and Flying Buffalo is still selling Ken St Andre's game (and running, and winning Origins awards for, Starweb).

That's true of WotC-D&D, certainly, or maybe fin de siecle 2e. Even 1st ed. AD&D, though, paled in that department next to most rivals -- one of their common selling points! The Original series had some proto-AD&D (and other) oddments in the supplements, but those were still utterly optional...

Tri Tac's, for example, has levels but not classes. What? Do we need to sort out a tally from among the thousands of rules sets published over the past 35 years? So far, you are not exactly giving evidence of being very well equipped with knowledge even of the major landmarks basic to any...

Try almost every thing prior to RuneQuest, and a good deal since! If you consider getting 5 points in Champions to be entirely different from getting a 'level', then I can only wonder what criteria WotC-D&D meets. In 3e and 4e, 'levels' are mainly similar chances to choose from a menu of...

Huh?! I dunno about BW, but SW seems to me not just one of the latest but one of the blandest retreads. YMMV on that, but still... I don't see how any of those "notes" is missing from Tunnels & Trolls, RuneQuest, The Palladium Fantasy RPG, Dragon Warriors, Warhammer Fantasy RP, Fantasy Hero or...

MrMyth, to me (not necessarily mattcolville) the key is in published scenarios and actual play. Considering what a cliché it has become to aver that D&D back in the day was nothing but fighting, I reckon it's a really bad sign when old-time D&Ders find your game to be not much but a wargame...

That's "wild and crazy" even relative to Jim Ward's original Gamma World (which is saying something). Is the "camp" factor pushed so much in the book? The aftermath of global genocide is not intrinsically more silly than, say, The X-Men -- or elves and goblins, for that matter. The GW (and...

It's whatever you say it is, Hussar. And that thing we used call a D&D campaign is whatever y'all decide we're allowed to call it, whenever you make up your minds.