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I played for quite a while in a long-running high-level 1e campaign. Here are some observations: 1) Magic-Users are definitely not overpowered at high level. Magic Resistance is common among high level monsters and saving throws are very easy to make at high level. On top of that, even...

There's an excellent take on old-school thief skills here: http://web.fisher.cx/robert/rpg/dnd/thief.html The key is that thief skills are special abilities. Anyone can try to move around quietly, but only a thief can move around absolutely silently. Anyone can hide behind something, but...

Not only was your first post a straw man, but this one is too.

You forgot to add "for me".

I agree. In all honesty, if I were writing the new D&D rules, I wouldn't hard-code these modifiers into the rules. However, some older editions did, at least for gender, age, attractiveness, and certain disabilities (i.e. being blind gives a -4 to hit, etc.). I think it's an interesting...

What happens if the rogue with 14 dex gets magically aged? Is it ok to penalize his (or her) dex or is that age-ist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I see when the you quoted me, you left out the key portions of the post regarding "equality" and "identical-ness". So, you're basically saying if you can't make them equal, you have to make them identical? How about for other groups like the elderly, obese, or ugly? Does there have to be an...

So you'd also advocate no penalties for age, physical appearance, body type, or disability? You wouldn't want to prescribe limits for those real-life groups either, right? In other words... A female barbarian should be just as strong as a male barbarian. An elderly rogue should be just as...

That's the point to the sarcasm. The whole discussion of promoting "equality" in D&D often gets twisted into promoting "identical-ness". I remember having a discussion with a friend of mine back in the 80s over ability score modifiers and limits for females AD&D 1e. She was convinced that the...

Some editions are more closely related than others. Like football, you may have some, like NFL and NCAA football that are different versions of the same game; while others, like soccer and American football are two different games entirely. There's some gray area and some subjectivity. In my...

Down with inequality! Not just gender-based inequality, but also age-, physical appearance-, body type-, and disability-based inequality as well! A female barbarian should be just as strong as a male barbarian. An elderly rogue should be just as nimble as a young rogue. An ugly bard should be...

Yes, but... Soccer is Football! (association football) American Football is Football! Rugby is Football! (union football) Arena Football is Football! Canadian Football is Football! Australian Football is Football! Gaelic Football is Football! ...the point being that just because it has...

After participating in the playtests, I feel like the rules are nothing like the lightweight 80's-era rules. It seems to me more like the heavy 3e rules minus the grid.

I think there could be room for human sub-races. Not ones based on culture, but sub-races based on strains of humanity touched by magic or the gods, etc. The Numenorean / Dunedain people in Lord of the Rings would be the perfect example. They are clearly human, but they were granted by the...

Where's the option for "Why make a lesser game to please the 3e/4e fans?"

Surprise your players by designing an encounter around the 7HD dwarves in the Monster Manual.

Well, WotC did say that they were going to support all D&D play styles in 5e...

I think it's great that WotC is reprinting older editions. So far we've seen 1e and 3.5e get the treatment, but how about the great-grandaddy of them all? Any chance at all that we'll see an OD&D reprint?

To begin with, D&D Next would have to fulfill its promise of letting me easily recreate the style of play from my favorite edition. If things like at-will spellcasting and the character-engineering stuff (like having to deal with backgrounds, feats, themes, etc.) are hard-wired into the game...