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Good comments, some of which I anticipated. I know this is not considered optimal, but let me explain my meta-game experience and expectations. With this DM and her husband, I've never got to play any character higher than 7th level in the 3.x system. Back in the 2E days we got to higher...

I joined some old friends in their weekly Pathfinder game, who are still 1st and 2nd level. The DM said they needed somebody either smart and/or charismatic. So of course the first thing I did was come up with a character background which ended up being somewhat anti-social (i.e. a druid or...

This is a good example of how the roles can be confused depending on who's talking about them.

I went to look at the pictures first of course. At first I thought, "well, that's cool, but I've got them in my Deities and Demigods already" but then I read that TSR/WotC threw out the originals. Sucks, but I would like to see cool new stuff inspired by the originals.

For me, when I hear "wizard" or "cleric" or "tank" I have a good idea of what you are talking about and can generally guess how they might work in party. Sure you could have a wizard diviner who likes asking questions and doesn't have many "pew pew" spells, but I still understand what you are...

Something I remember from my Intro to History class 2 years ago. The class is half devoted to a historical "game" which is sort of a debate, sort of research/writing, and the speech giving exercise. There are several different versions, but this class used the Trial of Anne Hutchinson game...

Back when the webmaster of Necromancer Games was working on his Half-orge book for Troll Lords I was playing a half-ogre barbarian using something GreenPiece created. I remember digging a moat around the town. It was supposed to be a sewer, but do to miscommunication the town thought it was a...

I think once more than a decade ago we gathered for Thanksgiving and played before we ate. It was probably 2E DnD, a random dungeon/random treasure chart type of off the cuff thing. But it might have been Runequest and if it was, I am doubtful I showed up until the food hit the table. Hmm...

I had planned to post this story in another thread here, but got sidetracked and then got the flu. Now I'm thinking its time to post it, but still gotta write it up and make sure it doesn't suck. So yeah, sometimes we do crazy stuff the GM doesn't anticipate, like asking the Imperial...

This kinda reminds me of the other thread, "I have the spell to solve the problem" or whatever the thread is named. Anyway, I'd say this spell will help, but not finish it in one fell swoop. And depending on where they target the spell, might cause some damage to the wagon or its contents, say...

This reminds me of the first 3E game I played in. I don't think it was sandbox, I'm not even sure we had a notion of what a sandbox was at the time, but we attempted to follow the clues the DM gave us. This led our party of 1st and 2nd level characters into the dungeon below the castle where...

I missed an episode, maybe 2, so I could be a little fuzzy, but what happened to the whole 2 worlds thing? Did one disappear when Peter came back or did they just find it unnecessary to tell Peter, "hey, look at this version of Olivia from another dimension"?

Perhaps a Pathfinder monk is better, though from the 5 sessions I observed before our PF game imploded I'd say they could be but our player and DM couldn't be bothered to read the rules, but my opinion of the 3.x monk is that they are a good support or "get out of trouble alive" character, but...

I just dredged up a memory from way back. When I was introduced to DnD, it was the Basic/Expert set, with the green character sheets, that I think I still have today, somewhere in storage. Anyway, the DM I think gave me the characters, premade, but I digress. He also had created his own...

From what I'm reading the "problem" will solve itself sooner or later when the other group has reset so many times they don't care about the campaign anymore. I do not think you should try to "intervene" with the other DM.

My nephew is still 5 or 6 years too young to really appreciate this, but somehow I gotta make his available to him when the time comes.

It would be interesting to know how many tricker treater said "hey cool" and how many said, "what the heck?" But it is cool.

Slum lords. If the party is evil, they could be trying to buy up all the buildings and if they are good they could be trying to help the citizens resist the evil slum lords.

I once paid an artisan to create an exact replica of a miscellaneous magic item that nobody in the party wanted, enchanted it with Nystuls Magic Aura and then swapped it for the real thing. This was back in the day when you got xp for magic items. I think it was a folding boat but I am no...

So did this get used?