Search results

No offense, but pardon me while I retch. :-S I don't tell stories. I DM player driven campaigns.

The more delimitations you hardwire into the rules, the further you're going to restrain the groups collective imagination and creativity. My own preference is for rules that are highly subservient to the imagination. That does require playing D&D with people you like, respect and have fun...

I've read that Dave Arneson wouldn't allow a save unless the Player provided a rational, first. :)

Saves. Here's my go-to example. Let's look at a Poison Save, caused by a spider-bite. In 1e, the narration of a poison save didn't have to be tied to CON. A Fighter might indeed shrug it off, physically. A Thief, might have quickly snatched himself out of harms way, the HP damage, being...

A max of two attacks per round, for fighter types.

I'm starting to get the idea that the folks who are going to like 5e, are the ones who can enjoy playing 1e, without thinking "it's broken," 4e, without thinking "it doesn't feel like D&D," and 3e, without thinking "it's too overwrought." Like Bill Cavalier recently said: "Does this game have...

If I were ever of a mind to run 3e again, it would be 3.0. Just the three core books + houserules. Maybe the main FR setting book, if I decided to go there with it.

I use ability checks for things that wouldn't come with the PC's class territory (3d6 to 5d6, depending) and either a saving throw (nice gauge of PC level) or a d6 roll modified by any relevant ability bonus/penalty, for adjudicating attempts at class related activities. I also throw in a...

There's more than one edition of the game, where combat doesn't take forever. There's no reason that 5e can't be one of them.

I'd like to see something like compilations of the best old Dragon articles. Like, all of Ed Greenwood's Realms stuff (Including the Nine Hells articles.) I may be the only Old Schooler who doesn't personally care if they release PDF's of the old material, though I'd like to see them do so...

I'm not forcing you to do anything. I'm merely pointing out what the word actually means and what the class was created to represent. As for Clerics, read the class descriptions in every pre 4e edition (don't know about 4e), then tell me what those descriptions describe. :lol: It's not about...

Except for definition, etymology, history, etc. Aside from that, and as far as D&D goes, the Paladin was introduced into the game as an archetype representing the epitome of knightly virtues. I don't know where 4e took clerics, but in every other edition they are holy warriors. 2nd best...

Huge, famous dungeons are an old school trope. They're huge. They repopulate easily, can never be cleared out and most importantly, most of those adventurers are dead, dead, dead. :lol:

Constantcon. Several old school DM's are running "Open Tables" on Google+ hangouts.

P.S. I haven't suggested any new ideas in 5e threads at all. Because mostly, it's 4e folk suggesting designs along 4e lines and I see no reason to jump in those conversations, until the public playtest docs are released and I can see what we're dealing with. And Old Schoolers are constantly...

I don't do Dragonsfoot. How many of the over 400 OSR blogs have you followed? How many of the over 200 for pay, non rulebook, OSR products have you read? Not to mention the ton of free products, constantly being released. What percentage of OSR folk "Cleave to the OSR exclusively?" And how...

Moses was a warrior. And Muhammad. Religious folk have been making war throughout history. :D The only pre-D&D, swords & sorcery kinda fighting priest that I can think of, is Rakhir the Red Archer, warrior-priest of Phum from M.M.'s Elric stories.

This is where the devilish details, lie. The philosophical divides, between the older editions, and new (and newer.) I'm not expecting to find myself gushing over 5e, which is fine. I'd still rather see WotC continue to develop 4e, leave 3e to Paizo and Old School to the OSR. If everyone would...

Experimenting and looking for new ways of doing things is a major preoccupation of the OSR, at least, but not solely as it's represented in the blogosphere and publishing. The OSR isn't standing still. It's exploring the road not taken, starting with the older games as a basis. Just largely...

As I understand it, his home Realms campaign remained 2e.