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3d6 in order. Or in Empire of the Petal Throne, d100 in order. I have seen some cool backstories and ideas come out of random, improbable combinations of ability scores. You take what the dice give you and you make something interesting out of it. That's part of the game.

War is Hell. The first guy off the Higgins boat on Normandy might have been the most gifted, sensitive artist of the Impressionist school since Monet, and also been a crack shot and a supreme athlete. Too bad his cranium got turned into a red mist by a burst from an MG42 before he even set both...

Quite. D&D is a game. If you want to do well at a game, you have to be good at it. It is an especially good game for you to choose to play if you can have fun winning or losing at it. You get to do well at Chess or Flames of War or Settlers of Catan because you learn how to make good decisions...

There are two ways to approach the Batman problem: Approach 1: Batman wins because his player is very shrewd and skillful; he makes excellent choices in every relevant sphere (problem solving, tactics, interaction, etc.). The player has built Batman up to a powerful level and he is always on...

Still fun for me and my group now, tough guy. It's a game and I'm the Referee. The players get to test how clever and resourceful they are, and when they succeed they reap great rewards. It's one reason why there's not a huge amount of combat in my game. Combat is just one type of challenge...

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You must spread some Experience Points around before giving it to pawsplay again.

WOTC could have learned how to alienate 75% of their customers instead of the mere 40% they settled for.

A couple of my players are experts. I'm not... I obviously did some research, but I can't say that I know all that much about the world. Enough to run a convincing game of it, I suppose.

Yeah, I'm running it actually. Been running over a year, currently up to 7 players plus the Ref (me). The survivors of the original cadre are almost 5th level; new characters start at level 1 (currently have a couple of those in the party). The original focus was my megadungeon under the city...

Even Gary disavowed them.

Sorry but that's how I've seen it done a lot. It doesn't really matter what you say; all that matters is the roll. It's just one long, dreary dicefest. The talky that matters is the player jockeying to be able to use his highest skill as the basis of the roll. Player: "First, I take the...

Welcome to Old School gaming. Swords and Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord are both excellent choices; my tastes run to the former (especially the White Box version). I myself have yet to try T&T but it looks like its own brand of fun, as well.

Yes.

I heard that dog was lame anyway. You did him a favor. Wik, have you heard about the [myfavoritebreedhere]? They're totally awesome and way better than your old dog. You can get one for low three figures online, not including vet fees and shipping of course. You'll never look back! I mean...

Then I'd have to program Melan to go back in time and kill you to save mankind's imagination. Which would be amusing but then I wouldn't get to see his contributions in Fight On! magazine anymore. And then people would be all like "Why would you make an infiltration model with a Hungarian...

The fate of WOTC isn't relevant to me as a lifelong D&D player. The "D&D" that they produce now has virtually nothing in common with the D&D that I play and find interesting. The products I consume (Old School Renaissance stuff) is generally not available in game stores. I buy things direct from...

I've never been peed on by a book. Just sayin'. Books have been nuthin' but good to me.

Interesting.

I roll to disbelieve. *chack* I succeed.