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Amen. I'd play OD&D again any day. What, no hit locations or critical hits ala Blackmoor? :) I recall we tried those and only one DM got them to work, but he made it work very well. By the way I thought you used Greyhawk? And why not Eldritch Wizardry, it's not like you need to hide the...

Did you say Black Album or Black Flag? Black Flag never sold out! I myself prefer "old school" selling out, shall we talk Mr. Roboto? :)

OK....I'll bite. Sure, I'll agree UA was a sell out, a desperate attempt to stem flagging sales and a hemmoraging bottom line. Maye the trouble was even sooner when they tried to cut Arneson out of the royalty stream from AD&D, a sure sign of greed or of not enough to go around. To continue...

PC or constant NPC? PC to means more of an active decision making role. I try to make the game about PC decisions, when I as a DM or another chimes in, it's very hard to decide if your suggestion about the best course of action is based on DM only information. I generally don't care for them.

Seriously, The session before last that I ran didn't go so hot, good but not stellar high adventure. I thought about it and one thing that was lacking was good description of rooms and encounters, I actually had to pause to read because my brain froze. It was probably the beer, but I...

How many xp do we get for that?

I'd trim classes down to very, very few (maybe 5 or 6) and make character differentiation based on feats and skills. Group the skills and feats under classes, a skill or feat not in your class costs more to take but you can still take it. No prestige classes, but maybe prestige feats and skills.

I think it does indeed. My circle of 40+ year olds (or I should say who have been playing for almost 30 years) differ from both. We don't think 3.x is the best ever, but we certainly consider it D&D and see the strong mechanical similarities in substance if not form. Of course D&D may mean...

Wow. (in a good way) I'm surprised you don't see 3.x as D&D, at least from a mechanistic point of view. I can see why from a flavor/setting paradigm point of view but not the mechanics. Is it the accumulation of changes, even if streamlining and keeping the core? Is it the feats? I first...

I would agree, especially considering its size and the range of D&D topics allowed. I would amend the above to say one of the most polite D&D message boards. :) I don't know what it, is but I haven't seen the penchant for division w.r.t. D&D displayed on message boards related to other RPGs...

This sounds not so much as a drawback but a common tactic, assuming the cavalier was allowed to "sneak up" on there opponents, or better yet used ranged weapons. One of our common tactics was to send a tank into tto engage the most powerful bad guy. Maybe having to hew down some followers in...

I've never had players want it so no problem in my own games. I've turned down games where the "goodest" alignment was neutral. In my younger days too much expereince with I'm CN /CE so I can be a jerk to you out of character types. Now in my advanced age, the implications are too...

I hope my linking was not misconstrued, not to pick out your post Treebore just last before I started to slowly with many interruptios type this reply. It wasn't intended to show the flames but the possibility that if there was an organized effort to post on ENWorld, it may have been...

:lol: Got to laugh on that last one. Obviously, Mr. Gygax's use of the term "material" and that propounded by the SEC vary greatly. ;) The cavalier sounds like an uber character that would far outshine any other, unless his xp chart was much more difficult. Yes it does. And I know that if...

MerricB, am I off-base, I thought for sure I saw this in the PHB (first priniting is what I have) It's at home but you seem to have access to it. I thought the cap was at 18/75 or some such. On this part: "You will find no pretenious dictums herein,..." I think those were saved for...

:eek: :eek: I never picked up UA but egad that's got powergaming all over it. Wasn't UA sold as Gary Gygax's houserules, now for your use?

Yeah I was too. Was looking for some info on OSRIC and hit that, like a train wreck I couldn't look away.

Stupid? Maybe not, ad hoc and a poor design choice, yes. A standardization of ability benefits and scales would have been a good idea. One thing I never liked about the percentile table was invariably a female player would note the limitation to % strength based on gender. And we wonder why...

Well if there was you might never know about it. :) Take a look here: http://www.adndcampaigns.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=4f1c862865f7b88570f792731dc03f9e&topic=327.msg4393 it seems there is quite an organization behind ORSIC/old school advancement. I’ll post a bit from the above link...