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Another one, with a different group. This one is partly due to conflicting player/DM expectations so I bear a share of the blame. The party was hunting down a red dragon that laired in an extinct/dormant volcano. One way in was through the front doors, with the dragon just down a huge hall on...

The party was low to mid level fighting a necromancer. The necromancer laired in a dungeon complex beneath a city. The first time that the group fought the necromancer in the dungeon, they had no idea that he was down there (they had fought him before, in the city above). After a big fight...

You're probably right, their schedule of publication was weird - but it seemed to have worked for them.

Mindflayers or aboleth. I run both as the (mutually hostile) minions of the Great Old Ones.

I think its up to the DM, and varies by system. I run 1E. In that system, there was a chance that being petrified killed you, and a chance that being changed back did. IMO, if you failed that first roll you're dead, and your soul is off to the afterlife. Otherwise your soul is still there, but...

Not quite. Even the average person can shrug off low damage hit or be merely shaken by stronger ones. And while 1 hit akes the average person out of the fight, they aren't necessarily dead after 1 hit.

You're right of course, that no one is completely unbiased. That's not necessarily a bad thing. My choices and my biases make it my world instead of something generic. That said, I try to play fair. I don't (and can't) think of everything ahead of time, so I react based on what the NPCs are and...

Prophecy is (or should be) something that can be seen to be true in retrospect, but that does not give out too much ahead of time; otherwise prophecy prevents itself from being fulfilled. E.g. if the prophecy says that "Josmith of 17 Main Street, Greyhawk City is destined to destroy Iuz", then...

Yeah, I forgot Knockspell. I've only seen one issue of d infinity.

1E is my game of choice, but I give kudos to 3E for the OGL.

People have already mentioned KQ, but as a Pathfinder player you could get your monthly gaming fix through Paizo's adventure path installments. Not quite a magazine, but close. In the "other RPGs" category There's Fight On!, which is quarterly, and sort of a magazine. It reminds me a lot of...

Oops, double post.

Draeden are from the old D&D Immortals set - gargantuan creatures, miles across, that roamed outer space and the Planes, and were capable of taking on a deity (or more than one).

Janx, because your definition of "game" excludes tag as well as computer games, I consider it to be too narrow.

Well, "heaven" is a word that originally meant (and can still mean) "sky". As steeldragons pointed out, benevolent (more or less) gods lived in the sky. or on mountaintops, death gods (and the souls of the dead) lived in the underworld, conceived by (e.g. the Greeks) as being literally...

Probably not, but I applaud the effort.

I agree with this. I enjoy combat also. But i enjoy other things about RPGs besides combat, some of which you named in the OP. If a game were too focused on any one aspect (including combat) I would enjoy it less. And by "game" I don't mean "session" or "edition", I mean a particular campaign.

I began with Holmes Basic D&D. While talking to my nephew (who is only 4 years younger than me) I mentioned having heard of D&D. He said that a friend of his owned the game. He borrowed it and we each read the rulebook. Having never played an RPG before, we each created a dungeon and a party of...

There are several ways that you can work this, even in a world where gods grant spells (or deny them) at their pleasure. For example, the followers of Saint Illa might receive spells from some other being (Another god, a demon lord, an archdevil) in the guise of the deity that they nominally...

No, but I tied his score.