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Yes, played it for a short time well after the fact (1993, if I recall correctly). I've played it about two times since.

I only played a few sessions of 1E well after the fact (circa 1993), and the guy running the game thought that it was a cardinal sin for a player to look into the DMG, and that he'd kick any player out who tried it, because players knowing what was in the DMG "ruins the game". (This guy...

Why doesn't WotC realize how they're ravaging my childhood and my memories and my puppy with this sort of thing?! "Wilbur" is an awful name for a PC! I hate that they're trying to force these kinds of names down our throats in 4e! Now if they'd gone for something classy like, oh, I don't...

If combat advantage is indeed a catch-all for how to activate different abilities, I like it already. Consolidation of like but poorly-differentiated concepts is a good thing, and creating a single discrete state (which can be abstracted to describe numerous possible in-game scenarios) from...

And as I said in the very post you quoted:

Don't roll it for your normal inventory. Admittedly, this works best when you have a relatively consistent inventory (and you're not constantly strapping a new sword to your back) and isn't so applicable to a 3e-style magic item Christmas tree. If it's a sensible load, don't worry about it. It's...

He also once smuggled a stolen bar of platinum out of the city by stuffing it down the front of his pants. When the guards questioned him, he convinced them he was "gifted". /end threadjack.exe

My 2e bard, Lotat the Magnificent, was the one who first wrote "Stairway to Heaven". He rolled a natural 20 to perform it and almost set his lute strings on fire :)

When you try to pick something up. Make the strength check to determine how bad the load is. Done. Or if you really want to track fatigue and the like, do it periodically throughout the day. If you want to be a stickler for inventory, apply a -1 or -2 penalty for each additional item the...

It sounds like a pretty helpful idea, honestly. It could even (if packaged correctly) be an excellent "newbie" present to attract new players who are eating up CCGs and make D&D seem more accessible. Make a "deck" for each class with all of the abilities for that class spelled out on it. Put...

For the love of all that's holy, I just hope that they finally ditch the archaic encumbrance system and do lifting/carrying as Strength checks. So much more in-line with the rest of the d20 System and so much easier to manage. Roll a d20 + Strength. Compare the DC. Succeed? It's a light load...

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It's a difference in gaming philosophy, which is what I was trying to illustrate. In my mind, most of the fun does indeed take place at the table. Philotomy Jurament and I had a discussion about this recently, and the conclusion we reached is basically that there's a difference in how invested...

Why would creating a character keep you from getting into the dungeon? Why would you even want to get into the dungeon without having a character you really want to play? Why would you want to play a character who isn't even different from the other fighter as far as the system is concerned? Oh...

I'm intrigued but not blown away. It looks like a nice take on a tick-based system. A very nice take on it. But I'm still not sure just how good it is. Integrating your initiative roll with your action for the turn, so you essentially pick if your action does well or if you get to act again...

If it doesn't have a skill system, it needs one. And if it needs one, odds are I wouldn't be able to stop ad just adding a skill system. Skills need to be board enough to cover a wide variety of uses, but with granularity built into them so that a character who wants to focus in on a very...

Seriously. Cool is so anime.

When taken completely out of context, your words completely support my point. I have ignored the past four pages of comments to point out that nobody replied to my point with any substance (however, since I pointed out that I ignored the past four pages of comments, it's okay if someone points...

It is a common problem, and I fully expected it going into it. I don't expect modules to be custom-made for me, so I never had any issues with it. It's just that sometimes shoehorning a module into your game is harder than some people think! ;) It's much more fun for us. My original group...

As someone who has only ever run one module ever, I for one can safely answer this with an emphatic "no". The last D&D game I ran was in a world that mixed high-psionics with the natural philosopher outlook of the Age of Exploration, with covens of binders lurking in the shadows and summoning...