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I've played 1-8 in one class, 1-12 in another, and 15-20 in a third. I still feel like I have barely dipped my toes in this edition. There are many, many other options I want to play.

You may say so, but the experience of thousands of gamers will disagree. It was not what enough of the market wanted to suit WotC; that is the most you can say. This is the part of the Edition Wars I think I will enjoy the least: the endless schadenfreude and "I told you so's" that come from...

Don't spend $100. Only spend $50 and get the PHB. If you want the equivalent material to the PF Core + Bestiary, get the MM too (but not necessary for dipping your toes). I think of the DMG as more of a Kit-Basher's Guide, but as you say, you like fiddly construction so the DMG is definitely on...

This is false, fallacious, and a slanderous lie. We play Pathfinder and Pathfinder only at my table! *pulls out RIFTS books*

I was implying that Paizo and MCG, being stacked with ex-WotC employees, are disproofs of your assertion that ex-WotC employees have a Curse of Doom reputation.

That doesn't seem to be hurting Paizo or Monte Cook Games.

It's gonna be a licensed Buck Rogers RPG! Get excited, y'all!!!

Another week, another 18 pages of the same people complaining about the same thing. New thread title to "shake things up" a bit, though. "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill

Not for me; when I run published material I have to read it with a fine-toothed comb and keep it on hand to refer to during play. If it's my own stuff from my own head, then most of it's cached in RAM and my notes are just paged memory on disk, do be swapped in if referenced.

In the OP, I used "adventure path" because it's a useful term that is fairly well-understood, and AP is easier to write out a bunch of times than "adventure path, adventure series, or module series". And I think it's evident that everyone knew what I meant, so the choice of wording is fairly...

The treasure, as it turned out, was fake, false, and a lie. The doubloons were, in fact, real gold and not the foil-wrapped chocolate the heroes had fought, slew, and bled for..

Darvus Andar, Paladin of Helerion Darvus glances quickly around the room, and keeping low, scurried into a better vantage point for the two exits. His movements are almost comical, as his "sneaky" movement is a jarring clang of metal plates. Move to L11, and visually inspect the corridor to...

I mean in the implementation, not the high-level design goals. What would you expect from a sandbox that is not delivered by an AP, and how would you expect a published sandbox adventure to be laid out? Are there any examples of published sandboxes? (I can't think of any, but I am also not...

Darvus continues to make his way down the stairs, but stops at the foot to peer into the room from cover. Since the encounter with the kobolds he has been quite taciturn. His brow is furrowed, and he is focused on danger he knows awaits him ahead. Move to J16 and inspect the room from cover...

That's fair. My thinking now is that a good campaign starts with a sandbox, and the initial adventure just gets things started. Maybe there's an overarching theme, but its interface with the players is almost incidental. Let's call these "framing stories" rather than campaign premises.

26. A new cult has sprung up in the hill lands and is spreading into major cities around the continent. It preaches honesty, peace, and brotherly love. Its hierophants perform miracles in the streets, even bringing the dead to life. It promises followers rich rewards for simple, ascetic...

Well, it's helpful that 1-20 correlate a little between 3.x/PF and 5E than 4E. I'd say, BAB/4 (round up) + 1. Level 1 BAB +1 => +2 prof, and Level 20 BAB +20 => +6 prof, with a linear progression. EDIT: My apologies, you are talking about total attack bonus, not base attack bonus. Back to the...

#20. The PC's awake, shipwrecked, with no memory of who they are or where they are from. An ancient cult of an old evil overlord that now exists only as legend is now hunting the PC's. As memories begin returning, the PC's realize they are older than legend itself, and their memories span eons...

Battlestar Galactica! Lord of the Rings! Do I win anything? :p EDIT: As a mental exercise, we like to take sci-fi movies and recast them as D&D campaigns. There is a lot of good material to mine from, there. EDIT EDIT: But the best ever was our Halloween Deadlands game on a riverboat casino...

So none of you guys did homework in college? Had jobs? For me, college D&D was a "fit it in whenever" thing, and it meant sacrificing another pastime, hobby, or social obligation. Marathon sessions didn't happen except on holidays. I think someone else hit it on the head when they said that we...