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Big number syndrome, is my guess.

You guys sound like DMs. ;) Most players I know don't like long periods where they're out of the action, or losing characters. There are a few hard-core roleplayers that get into that kind of thing, and some that don't get attached to their characters too much. But most players want to be...

Long-term wound healing is boring and tedious, which is why they removed it in 4e, I imagine. You lose the narrative of lying in bed for 6 weeks (wow, can't wait to roleplay that!) in exchange for gaining the narrative of taking a sucking chest wound at 4 in the afternoon and still being able to...

I think the difference here between laws and domination is, you still have a choice to obey a law, or to disobey it. If you get caught, you will be punished, but you can still practice civil disobedience if you believe a law is unjust. If you're dominated, you are stripped of choice entirely...

Yeah, by taking a 6-hour rest. Sounds pretty risky for your hypothetical lone fighter in the woods.

Not if s/he's out of healing surges...

I think what a lot of people (myself included) are looking for in a retro clone is the simplicity of yesteryear's rules without the arbitrary and clunky mechanics and other design issues. To state it bluntly, DCC RPG seems to have fallen into the same trap as a lot of other clones, confusing...

Fixed that for you. Also, D8s are lethal in the right hands!

Well, I guess we can cross a few names off the 'trustworthy sources' list, no? ;)

PEACH is irritating because it was driven into the ground by hordes of 12 year olds spamming their horribly broken spells/feats/classes etc. on the WotC boards.

A bit of a side track, but not really worth forking the thread at this point.

Yes, which gets back to my statement that villains threatening a character's parents et al is rather hackneyed.

You guys are horrible. Thread should be renamed, "101 Video Game and RPG Names That You Could Give A Real Child (If You Want His Ass Kicked on the Playground)."

Thulsa Doom was an adversary of Kull, not Conan.

Conan never had that as his motivation, that I can recall. To name one prominent example. Anyway, it's been done in too many campaigns not to elicit groans at the table if I try to use it. :P

I wouldn't insult such players (mine included) with epithets like "sullen loners." My group finds the whole "your parents/relatives/well-loved neighbors are threatened by villains" thing to be kind of trite, to be honest.

I also have trouble with hooks. In my last campaign, I simply had the local nobility put out a call for mercenaries to solve local problems. As to why they didn't use their own troops/guard, there was a war in the south so local manpower was extremely limited. After the party was successful on...

I find any dissociation that at-will/encounter/daily powers create to be very easy to hand-wave, because that structure makes book-keeping so easy. XD In a 3.x campaign, certain Batmen/Women or CoDzillas need to be tracked closely lest they mysteriously develop 'infinite spells/day syndrome'. ;)

Either the DM is going to be bored having the PCs running over everything without breaking a sweat (and maybe even the players after a while), or the players are upset when the DM breaks a few rules to provide something of a challenge to the party. Sounds like a lose-lose situation.

These are really cool, but there isn't a lot of room to write down your loot! Among other things.