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Despite; I would not have been surprised if the game had just quietly vanished given that it is a licensed property and quite old.

This is a good way of thinking about things, in my opinion. I was one of the many people who accidentially ran B2 in AD&D at one point. You eventually find issues but you could forge ahead without ever cracking open a monster manual. Trying to run B2 for 3.5E D&D would be much more...

Curious, I would have bet on chaotic neutral

Are these really pluses?

Hey, if the combat is functional and fun this might be better than regular pathfinder! :)

I do not know; did this debate happen with Traveller or Call of Cthuluu? I also remember the BECMI/1st Edition AD&D debate as being a matter of preference rather than something that got personal. So I think that people can have a positive and constructive attitude towards multiple editions.

Yes, but the bolt versus ray thing is obvious to a 3.5E player as they are familiar with the system and so the idea that a lightning bolt is an area attack is obvious. But just reading the text of the spell, it's really not obvious why it couldn't be handled the same way as scorching ray or...

I am not sure. Look at the 3.5 E description of disintegrate: "A thin, green ray springs from your pointing finger." Is this a Fortitude save to resist or a reflex save to dodge? Compare it to lightning bolt: "You release a powerful stroke of electrical energy that deals 1d6 points of...

The most frequently updated gaming blogs (Grognardia) seem to have an objective of averaging a post a day to keep people in the habit of stopping by. But there are a lot of fine blogs that update one or twice a week that I follow. Less than once a week tends to be too slow (at least for my...

Yes, if I want lots of charts and fiddly optimization then Rolemaster is the "go to" system for me. This is especially true if I can work in their very high quality middle earth supplements to the game somehow.

The pathfinder solution was to remove the cure minor wounds spell.

Yes, I was just throwing out ideas, but you are right that it would be hard to do this in a very simple way that is also balanced. In more general terms, I would like to find ways to make low level magic users (levels 1 to 4) slightly more effective and high level ones (> 12th level)...

Yeah, the spell point totals get too large and the flexibility starts to really make a difference. A 10th level AD&D magic user would have 4x1 + 4x2 + 3x3 + 4x2 + 5x2 = 39 spell points. That allows extreme concentration in one spell (13 fireballs) as well as great flexibility to adapt to...

I think that is true only in a limited sense. It's true that they played a huge role in the battle of the five armies but, even in the film version of LotR, they mostly helped Frodo and Sam survive the ending. Good for Frodo and Sam but not really all that crucial to the actual outcome of the...

I am not sure you are completely correct: Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible And it seems to be every active. My (agonizing) experience with 4E has been that you can build a suboptimal character very easily by accident and, since they never die, you suffer through these design mistakes for...

Dwarf (or Human) Fighter Elf Fighter/Magic-user Gnome Thief/Illusionist Human Ranger Human Cleric Half-Elf Fighter/Magic-user/Cleric That would be reasonably typical of the sorts of 1st level 1E AD&D parties I have seen. A Paladin might replace one of these if your DM was exceptionally...

I am generally concerned with open slot system and power point systems for high level casters (as they grant extraordinary flexibility to high level casters). For low level casters (levels 1 to 4) they radically improve the effectiveness of the character and make the class much mroe fun. But...

I think 2E covered this in 4 or 5 pages. :) I think the key to the NWP system was to still keep it at a high level of abstraction. If one gets too caught up in craft (X) and Lore (Y) then you get back the skill system of 3E and the inherent complexity. Things like blindfighting we simply bad...

I like the "+1" roll idea. It's simplifies combat more than the 3/2 attacks (which add to book-keeping for little benefit) and it is very intuitive. Nice.

I agree. I kind of liked Elves, Dwarves and Halflings as classes, but this approach is definitely better for giving a broader range of options. These classes really seem to mix well with the originals and can be fun to play. I suspect that it would actually work better at low levels. Do you...