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#4 While I don't agree with the overall point, I will say the #4 is dead on treasure = XP was great and I think it stinks that most people hate that. But, what a perfect way to reward creative play. Get creative get the treasure without a knockdown fight, you get your xp. I always...

pretty sure not Hi, We have some back x-rays of my wife's spine. She is a gamer, but I am pretty sure that if I said.."Hey honey, do you mind if I use your spine as a basis for a dwarven mine adventure" She would not be amused..... But, I am about to head home. I will ask her,and...

sigh me too Me next. I just realized I got sucked into an edition war, where I am defending an edition that I find only OK. I have played 4th and had fun. I am currently running a 3.5 Mages Tower Campaign (cause I think the rules fit it better) I would love to find a BECMI or a C&C game...

Really? 4 edition of D&D has character creation that includes chosing a race and class, It has hit points, race abilities, class abilities. Some of which are only useable x times/time period. You get more powerful through getting magic and xp points. It is mostly combat oriented. This is...

Assuming they were offical (and/or licensed products) you had a D&D bumper sticker and an AD&D beach towel. WOTC has put the D&D logo on a rpg. since that is thier right, that is a D&D rpg. You may hate it. But it is D&D, it may not be good. I have only played once and had a pretty good...

since 1st Hi, I have been using a battlemat (of some sort) since 1st edition when the DM kept having his 9 ft. demon attack the wizard in the back of the party. The party was on a 10ft. ledge outside a cave. Since arguing with the DM tends to destroy immersive RP for me. A battlemat...

AC goes up Well, you don't need to know anything about the D20 system, everything is in the Players Handbook. Basically, Armor Classes go up, anything you want to try you roll a D20 and want to roll high. Everything else is just details. A middle earth campaign?, about like trying it...

whatever works Exactly. It is about what makes me a better DM. Whatever I can expose myself too that will open my brain to say "HEY TRY THIS" or make me ask myself "CAN I GET THIS FEEL IN MY 3.x GAME?" is a good thing. RK

complete opposite See, I am the exact opposite. Playing dissimilar systems is what leads me to inovating play styles in all systems. Both 4ed, and C&C have both re-defined how I DM 3.5. I use skills as class abilities and have a ranged of DCs laid out (from easy to all-but...

my take Hello, I have tried C&C and liked it, but finally decided on 3.5. The reason is, I like the skills and feats and when I built it onto C&C it was really close to 3.5. So, that is what I went with. But, I have taken alot away with me from reading and playing a little C&C. I am...

and And been accused of catering to the Anita Blake and Twilight crowds. Hmmm, but then again Laural Hamilton (the author of the Anita Blake books) is a gamer and has written a D&D novel, so that might have been interesting to see her as a game designer. RK

I apologize Justanobody, Sorry, I should not have engaged you like that. I am certainly not a modder or mini enthusiast. D&D is my game of choice because I can play it with Heroscape and Skittles, and have an absolute blast. So, enjoy the level of detail and technical precision that...

you are right You are correct, if you are unbending your minis to see how tall they are, you have more than a slight problem. Treebore, I am right there with you. Heroscape terrain for the win. And you can let your 3 year old play with it as well. Of course getting it back may be a...

back in the day In college (late 80s) I had a roommate ask if he could play robocop in my 2nd AD&D game. My answer NO. Of course now I could say lets look at warforged. Also in college a co-workers was telling me about his AD&D characater. A two-headed Elven Vampire Wizard (See having...

how many times a week? Yikes, do that many people still play that often. I play 1 per month if I am lucky. Good luck with the survey. RK

and the great thing is That is great, and the cool thing is that it can teach you to do that in the later editions. Having grown up playing/dm'ing D&D and AD&D, when I moved over to 3rd, I had no problem doing things on the fly. I did tons of monsters and NPCs on a half sheet of paper just...

ah yes the elemental summoning gnome I fought tooth and nail against Unearthed Arcana back in the day, I tried logic and got blank looks, I tried DM Fiat when I DM'ed to not allow it and got a mutiny then I got to play, and chose the Gnome to try and prove my point. 1/2 way through the...

my re-reading I re-read the race and classes section this past year. I was stunned by the alignment breakdown of the 1/2 elf vs. the 1/2 orc. The are the same. Which means an npc 1/2 elf is just as likely to be evil as a 1/2 orc by raw. Which amazed me. RK

so you want So, want a copy of C&C stapled to the front of your 3.5 PHB? Just kidding. Actually, the concept is not bad. I would not put it all in a single book, but I like this. RK

I did this...kind of Hi, DMing a planescape campaign years ago, I had the key to a portal be a poem about the moon. The players found out and the 2 english majors start composing a Haiku and a limmerick respectively. The biology major quickly whipped out The moon in june, is round like...