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We had them in the old datys too they were open to the DMs judghemnt and weren't based on picky movemnt distinctions.

actuallty it is the other way arround. 3e characters are a 1/10th as tough as an AD&D character at best. It'd take two AD&D fighters something like 13 minutes to finish a fight unless someone had tricky magic items up an armored sleeve. A 3e fighter would be dead against another 3e fighter in...

Here is an interesting little thougght piece regarding light. What happens to photons we observe?

1) Things travel at 100% the speed of light all the time, some of them are called photons. I'm figuring a vessel traveling at 100% the speed of light maty see the whole ubniverse stand still but there is still time on the vessel. 2) Inside the starship that travels at 100% light speed, someone...

They are dumb dumb dumb. I'm very good and very close friends with a lesbian couple, we hang out with each other a lot (we have kids the same age too) and people always assume I'm "with" one or the other of them or even "both" of them (this dillusion is sometimes useful ). Guys are constantly...

Not true, they may indeed consoider it but find the dry spell in the middle unappealing. wow, you have a lot to learn there. It is far easier to walk away from a boyfriends financial idiocy then it is to walk away from a husbands financial idiocy. I think you may be confusing boys with men.

My most recent campaign recently wrapped up with something like 190 sessions. The highest level character was 14th level. We had folks in that campaign with no game experience to 25 years of experience (well by the end). Only one character made it from the 1st session to the last - Craddoc a...

Those Sessions where you RPed the trip to the privvy must have been awesome. ;) That really seems terribly slow to me and my old games seldom breached 12th level or so a couple of years into the camapign.

My old AD&D campaign had as many as 14 players, some folks had two or three PCs but they didn't all go on the same adventures together. We played every 2 or 3 weeks for 7 or 8 years.

GUPS -Lite 3rd edition was 32 pages in length also. It is also an incomplete game despite how comprehensive it manages to be in 32 pages.

Well then clearly there were mechanics, ones you do not recall completely. +2 to hit. Move quicker then when you aren't charging. (incomplete but that is right off the top of my head)

Yes, there were rules for charging in AD&D. In first and second edition.

It wasn't D20 contracting his ability to conceptualize actions it was his not reading the rules or not understanding the rules that got in the way. The rule book has examples that show folks what it means by "straight line".

I don't know if I'd call a game with rules scattered over 4 rule books (over 120 pages total) with at least 5 different combat resolution systems Lite. ( Chainmail, chain mail man-vs-man, fantasy combat matrix, aerial combat and the "new" optional combat system )

Really? How about when you factor in the skills and powers books? Or the two or three variants on running in the PHB and so on

Malhavoc Press will be publishing Dragon Magazine.

Yet it still functions well enough to provide the effect that the spell provides. you dont' have to go anywhere outside of the spells description and still find it to be a bit powerful. One campiagn I PC'd in took place outdoors a lot of the time and this spell came up constantly. We were...

Hmmmm... thriving rules-lite systems ? Has there ever been one? I don't think any game is rules-lite if it is over something like 64 pages or so. I know C&C is simpler them 3e but i'd never call it rules-lite, True-20 certainly isn't rules lite they just aren't ruels heavy.

I wouldn't buy 4th edition books anytime in the next five years or so. I might take a hissy-fit and swear off WoTC entirely and start up an old AD&D campaign or play 2nd edition Castles and Crusades ;) .

I find if I limit the level at which new characters come in then switching characetrs or letting them die doesn't happen too often. Sure it happens now and again but folks that do it are very serious about it and I'm not bothere by continuity issues (i.e. if everyone in the game is about 12th...