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But we don't know how much of his writing for TOEE was based on EGG's notes . . . and he deliberately tried to mimic EGG's style in writing TOEE. The Village of Hommelet doesn't have any boxed text. I prefer no boxed text myself.

Same as the Spanish Inquisition executing offenders who confessed. . . . If the orc is unable to stop sinning, then executing him is doing both him and society a favor. A paladin would not have our modern notions of the death penalty. . . . :uhoh:

It was written as such in the Greyhawk Adventures hardcover, which was written by Jim Ward. His name was Jason Krimeah and he was trying to become a shade. EGG's Mage of the Valley was Basiliv the Demiurge.

I agree that 3e empowers players at the expense of the DM, but really, some of the claims made in this thread about 1e ("the DM is like a god" and "the players don't have the books") are exaggerated.

I've found among serious gamers that everyone usually has all the books. Casual gamers maybe not. I doubt that it is any different between 1e and 3e in this regard.

I've never played in any campaign in which the GM was not questioned during the game. No matter what the rules.

It's just a game, dude. You don't have to pretend to be there. :p

I wholly agree. I don't like having everything spelled out for me in advance, but I do appreciate a GM who makes consistent rulings, and as a GM I try to make consistent rulings myself, writing them down if need be so I can refer to them in the future.

Nothing.

I guess it depends on whether one includes d20 material and still-mostly-compatible 3.0 material in one's count. There's no doubt that TSR released more material for 2e than WOTC has released for 3.5 -- but in the former case TSR was virtually the only company releasing such material (there's a...

The Collector's Trove is auctioning off a number of rarities from Rob's personal collection. Support PPP and own a piece of gaming history at the same time! There are quite a few D20 oddities available.

Yes, they appeared in Dungeoneer's Survival Guide, Wilderness Survival Guide, Dragonlance Adventures, and Oriental Adventures at the very least. And the main person responsible for Oriental Adventures (David "Zeb" Cook) then went on to be the main person responsible for AD&D 2e. As an aside, it...

I agree as far as plate mail & shield is concerned, but where did the 2-weapon fighting come from? Since 2e got rid of the barbarian, why not simply give rangers the same Dex bonuses as barbarians (as long as they're wearing light armor), and nix the 2-weapon nonsense? That's why I thought the...

I would like to see a 4e that was more-or-less backwards-compatible with all previous versions (1e, 2e, and yes, even 3e) so that aficionados of different versions can at least speak the same language to one another.

One might argue that 2e is more "sexist" than 1e, since 2e uses "he" everywhere as a third person singular pronoun, whereas 1e is careful to use "he or she." Sure, female PCs can't be as strong as male PCs, but that's not sexism, it's reality. ;) I agree that 1e adventures are the best. The...

I would say rather than the ranger was reworked so that Driz'zt's character wouldn't be broken (the drow ability to wield two weapons at once having been taken out). :\

I think it would be more correct to say that modules and supplements from that period emphasized these things rather than the game itself. . . .

Dragonlance Adventures is essentially 2nd Edition. All of the 2e tropes (nonweapon proficiencies, specialty priests, wizard schools) are already contained in it. I'm not saying that's good or bad, mind you. . . .

The major differences I can think of is that 2e giants and especially dragons are more powerful than their 1e counterparts (however, 2e characters are generally not more powerful than their 1e counterparts, with the possible exception of the cleric). So you just have to be careful when replacing...

I read about another party that .