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You could put "Dinosaur Sign" on the encounter tables. Egg shells, footprints, big old dung piles, knocked over trees, roaring/calling not too far away. If characters want to go find the dino , let them, otherwise they don't bump into the critter.

Hardly. A 1st level 1e 1st level fighter could survive for 2 minutes under attack. Where as a 3e 1st level fighter isn't likely to survive more then 30 seconds.

Compare the ability of 1st level fighter to kill another 1st level fighter within the rule set they were generated in. Figure out all the chances and damages inflicted as probabilities and then compare editions.

...oh, humor at my expense? You are just a big meanie.

i frankly think a 1e fighter was tougher then a 3e fighter by a long shot. The average 1st level fighter with long sword in 1st edition is going to be able to kill another 1st level fighter more often then a 1st level 3e fighter can kill another 1st level 3e fighter. Compare within...

The assassination chart takes ome of the fun out of assassinating the target. One can reduce a sessiosn worht of espionage down to a brief description and 1 die roll. And thieves pickpocketing fellow PCs is numb and I harldy ever saw it happen.

whuh? I think most campaigns woudl be awful stories but they are still fun to play. I wouldn't want to read about a party exploring a dungeon for a year and a half in room by room detail as a matter of entertaining story reading. I might love it as D&D research but that's because i'm darned...

Only if we manage to never see Seven_Samurai , the villains in that make use of firearms. Or never played Nobunaga's_Ambition.

Rolemaster had Manuever didn't it.

most of my musket experience is with 18th centurt and early 19th century technology. A rifled musket, is a rifle and I wouldn't include it in the data for muskets. all that makes a musket a rifle is rifling but it does make a huge difference in the effectiveness of the weapons. Some early...

Muskets do in fact shoot straight-ish. You can hit a human sized target, the one you are aiming at up to 100 yards. Different shaped loads and wadding and you get different performance from a musket. Duffers and folks using miliatry quick loads would be hard pressed to hit a specific target...

2012 isn't "the end of the world" it's the "end of the world as we know it now". Oh look age of aquarius... fascinating. one shoudl note, tha Mayans thought mayan civilization wouldl under go problems but still be here in 2012, they certainly got that part wrong.

huh? How the heck do you ever have continuity? Is it always new characters? My current campaign has run for at least 16 sessions and I consider it just getting off the ground. The campaign I DM'd previous to that lasted for over 5 years of weekly play.

hmm your question has part of the answer in it somewhere. "What ever happened to "just playing the game and enjoying the story?" " What ever happend to just playing the game?

Slap the blackpowder and laser guns in a couple of pages in the DMG and I'll be happy.

Dear me....am i a Grognard? Helping my older buds get the shade of mud right on their napoleonics, owing a heck of lot miniatures that look liek midgets compared to new miniatures, pushing stacks of card board counters around the room and discovering the shades on those counters that made army...

The figureprints figures are going to be 4" tall. Stood on bases and enclosed in domes. they are about 350% larger then gaming figures (in every dimension)...for $100.00. Looks like 3d printing of actual game minis is within reach. An actual gaming piece of a man sized critter takes up...

3d printers are useable now for limited production. They are also available for under $25,000 . To put this in perspective my first postscript compatible B/W 300 DPI laser printer cost me a little over $10,000 about 18 years ago.

A new PHB every year and they don't really need a rules cleanup in a whole new edition they can add incrimental rule changes/corrections for 3-4 years and then sell everbody everything all over again in a Rules Compendium.

Most dugeons are built to have a nice southern exposure, they can get a litl eof that natural lightign a few feet futher down the corridor in the winter months and much mor eof the day if the dungeon entrance is facign south. I suppose MerricB would have most of his homebrew dugneons with a...