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I know the flames are gonna start for this one, but the game I really wanted to like but wound up hating was 3rd Edition D&D. I gave it it more than a college try, but it the game actually wound up souring me on any future WOTC rpg purchases. I completely agreed that the game needed a single...

No, because as far as the Philosopher is concerned, the PC died from a heart attack brought on by irrational fright. (Raise Dead isn't on the list of Philosopher "marvels") Of course, even Philosophers experience things that look an awful lot like undead and demons, which they are sometimes...

My advice is to create a 1-2 page document that broadly outlines campaign setting. Don't make it more than can fit on both sides of a single sheet of paper. In my experience, players hate feeling like they have to do homework before they can play. One way to create the player's handout is to...

No, because Dragons are "natural" creatures, with rationally explainable physiologies. Demons and other outsiders, on the other hand, can be debunked and made to disappear. When it happens in game, either I or the player explains how the other PCs thought they saw something weird, but it was...

In my campaign there is a Philosopher class with many of the same abilities of clerics, but based on superior understanding of humanity and the Universe, rather than devotion to gods. They can debunk undead, rather than turn them. It functions much like turning, except that a success means that...

Started with Basic D&D in '83 or '84. Moved on to AD&D a couple of years after that. I was running a 1st Edition AD&D game until '93. I mostly skipped 2nd Edition I was playing Vampire during the rest of the 90s, except for a few games with the Rules Cyclopedia. I came back for 3rd Edition, but...

True. I was giving it as an example of of the sort of things they might enjoy. Obviously, their bent is femdom, so the genders would have to be changed. Then again, the original post is about what would happen at a Drow mixer where the social roles are relaxed. In the real-world, many...

My mind boggles at the thought of enslaving wizards. How exactly could one do that? Not only do wizards need to not under duress in order to accomplish anything magical, I would think that trying to enslave one would get somebody declared the enemy of a group of people who can shoot fireballs...

Once and for all, shield rules that really reflect how valuable shields actually were in hand-to-hand combat. The historical fighting style of an otherwise unarmored warrior with a shield should be a reasonable choice under the rules.

In my campaign world, humanoids like Goblins, Hobgoblins, Kobolds and Orcs are frequently for sale as slaves, goblins being the most common. A goblin slave (perfect for things like rat-catching, chimney sweeping, latrine washing, nighttime street sweeping etc.) costs about 100 gp. Enslaving...

I can accept the Drow as bodily excretion-loving, BDSM freaks whose daily lives look like the sickest kind of German porn. But making them into furries just crosses a line...

If you want some inspiration as to Drow sexual practices, I recommend reading De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. It was never finished, but we have the entire 1st part, and a detailed outline for the remainder. Here's the link: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/120Days/00000010.htm WARNING: The book is...

I'm OK now. I've taken a deep breath, reached my happy place, and turned off the Rage Against the Machine songs. ;)

Oh, it isn't blinding rage. It's nausea at the way a carefully crafted corperate PR strategy is being presented, and accepted, as the random thoughts of game-loving designers, none of whom ever seem to question the basic design decisions of 4th edition. No dissent apparently at WOTC. 100%...

Cute. Puerile, but cute. I especially like how he sandwiches in the traditional names with obviously stupid, straw-man names. This way, all of us idiots who actually liked such an unfun game as D&D can feel oh-so-grateful that WOTC isn't making new classes called Dung Delver. God, I never knew I...

That's an excellent point. I think that too often we gamers forget human stupidity and greed when designing fantasy cultures. We have our societies do things because it would be fair and rational for them to do them, forgetting that human beings are inherently irrational and greedy. Sure it...

Part of the point of C&C was creating a simple base system that however would support modular add-ons. For many DMs who have made the change, 3rd edition style Feats were one of the things we were trying to get away from. Therefore, I for one was delighted that Feats excluded them from the main...

Just seeing that box again makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

In the majority of real-world religions it is a good act to destroy (meaning kill) evil beings. Ever read Revelations? The Koran? Exodus? The Mahabharata? All of those books go on at length about Holy God(s) being tireless in the desire to destroy evil, and that they expect humans to behave in...

IMHO, part of the appeal of a game like D&D is that it allows its participants to imagine a fantasy world where good and evil are objectively real. Alignment was never just a description of how a character acts. It was a statement of which side a creature takes in the cosmos-wide struggle of...