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Sound like your going for the Island of Dr. Monroe. To avoid the "furry" label try to go with images that are not cute. It seems OK if it is a natsy creature and/or doesn't have fur. Gnolls and Minotaurs are both anthromorphic but I've never seen anyone lump them into "furry fandom,' likewise...

Well that's why I'd pull out Traveller or Runequest, a skill based system and use that. :) The DMG "secondary skills" where just a list of words, and then not even a very complete one.

JG's Caverns of Thracia

I'd have to disagree, unless your definition of grognard is someone who doesn't believe 3.x "D&D" is D&D. Then grognard becomes a self adopted title for those who agree with you. If on the other hand you adopt the definition of grognard as someone who played wargames before D&D came out and...

Late '76 or early '77, was in 7th grade. One of my best friends older borther was home from college (or maybe dropped out) and he wanted to play this game with wizards and stuff. Heck, I'd read Lord of the Rings and lots of Conan by that time and thought sure. I thought it might be a war game...

Hey, I'm a late '70s fan! :) But really have no problem seein 3.x as D&D and I can say the same of at least 8 close friends who all started with playing OD&D from 1974-77. We go with "C." If anything AD&D 1e is not D&D, :eek: per the legal arguments advanced to avoid paying Arneson royalties...

:lol: My group is almost exactly the opposite. Ordely and methodical in the extreme; although they do seem to know when the monsters are off balance and they exploit the situation. They typically maintain lines of retreat, set a rear watch (can you say familiar), etc. and have declined to...

Same here. I reinstuted a moral mechanic. Intelligent creatures might also flee if they appear to be doing nothing to the PCs while the PCs are systematically decimtig them. A smart party might use some illusions to look fresher than they are to take advantage of this. :) Intelligent...

To continue the gaming love. :) I loved OD&D, I loved 1e AD&D when it came out, I completely missed 2e, and don't know enough about 3.xe to form a strong view one way or the other. But I also loved CT, CoC and TFT. What I don't love is D&D centricism, or even worse, edition centricism that...

Will do, from what you've said it looks like your DM has changed things up a bit or is using some NG at least above ground. The ruins in the PJ version are fairly small. I like the shambling mound encounter, sounds like a good one for the swamp-like default setting. I've set things on a...

:lol: I actually agree with you on this one, but unfortunately I don't think you'll find the same view on many pro-1e sites. Do you recall the editorial rants from the Dragon on how AD&D was clear as written and anyone who said otherwise was denegrated? Your view in most retrospective...

Further to your specific questions. See post above. Yes, but mostly in the politcal realm, setting based, e.g., changed names of gods, replaced monsters not found in setting with equivalents. Expanded greatly on relationships between factions, personalities of intelligent monsters, especially...

I'm running Paul Jaquay's Caverns of Thracia as well. The fourth or fifth time for me. It's set in my homebrew world so you can imagine that its been tweaked, but still pretty much the same as the original. I have the NG reimagining, nice maps and art but prefer the orginal. We are many...

Exactly, we never used rings of wishes for anything else, which is why all the old rules about raising abilities with wishes baffled me. That said, we invariably ran 2 characters each because oft someone died with little or no way to bring them back when at lower level.

To the last two questions first, yes it is acceptable for the DM to create very difficult situations, impossible ones yes but in moderation and with much forethought and consideration if this is "railroading" in a way your players can't stand. I'll say I've been DMing for 25+ years, being...

QFT It becomes a game of guess what I'm thinking, and designer fiat to railroad character's down a narrow track of solutions to problems.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here, that is, what is your basis for comparison? Are you comparing only TSR modules from the 70s and early 80s or any D&D approved module? Are we also limited to what's within the covers of the modules or how people played? Finally are we lumping all of...

QUOTE=Hussar] Emrikol isn't exactly hurting either. He's roasting some poor guard on his way out of town. And my magic-users were never allowed to cast spells from horseback not matter how many times I pointed to that picture. Maybe Ermikol had some special feat. ;)

QFT even though I don't play 3.x and really have no desire to.

:confused: So you just end it with the implied assertion that the reason Storm Raven isn't able to agree with you is that he is not listening, or at least not hard enough? Followed by a insinuation that his emotions have led him astray without dealing with the merits of the topic itself?