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Fact 1: I played a 1e halfing thief with these stats. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (rolled up) and in trying to kill the character off, I subdued an ancient red dragon single handedly. Fact 2: I once played D&D with Gary Gygax. Fact 3: I have played about 75 characters in 31+ years of playing and...

That is the exact assumption in the Forgotten Realms - gunpowder as we know it doesn't work. There are firearms in the Realms (very rare items) and they uses a magical alchemical substance called smokepowder. Adding sulphur to charcoal and saltpeter (primitive gunpowder) doesn't work unless it...

I have two characters that I still play that I have played off and on for 25 years. Balcathor, a human wizard level 35 and Storm, a elven fighter 10 / Rogue 25. I played both fairly steady for about 10 years and off and on for the past 15 years. Their roles these days is limited to being...

I don't have the book but I do have the 2E Undermountain boxed set, therefore, I may be talking about something I don't full grasp - lacking the Expedition book. That said, the presentation seems about the same as the 2E boxed set, namely: Large sections of undetailed rooms, Encounter areas...

Make the dungeon more than monsters waiting in rooms for adventurers to kick open the door and kill them and take their stuff. Things I have done. Enclaves of monsters in parts of the dungeon will have patrols out, manned barriers, alarms and sentries to restrict entry into their territory...

Hey Nightfall, I don't see the **numbers** in your posts so congrats on getting off parole. :cool: As for the topic, I just picked up the book and my quick thumb through shows it has top notch production values and seems 'solid' for its content. I need to read though it further to confirm...

Conjecture - the ideas of the crits in D&D in specific probably had their origins in The Hobbit where Smaug is laid low by a lucky arrow strike in the vulnerable spot over this heart. I think crits originated as the notion of overcoming a powerful monster by a very skillful or lucky hit (like...

After reading this thread so far, I guess my group is remarkable in that they rarely fail. In fact, I can only recall two 'failures' in multiple campaigns in 30+ years. It usually doesn't go smoothly but at the end of the day, they have met the objectives and usually without drawing the ire of...

Chalk it up to differences in DM styles. In a similar situation (travelling with a caravan), I have caravan NPCs tallk with the characters as a way of getting some interest (and information) going. A NPC make a comment or reveals something that get the conversation going and gives the...

Aye, that's the rub. You would need a Ptolus-sized book to do Undermountain justice. And since that wasn't the intent and that is not what happened, you work with what you got. I'm fine with it. But a Ptolus-sized book - that would have warmed the cockles of my heart.

Powergamers, Metagamers and Munchkins being an impediment to the game is not a given. I've had more problem players who are not powergamers, metagamers or munchkins but individuals who come to the game table and treat the game as some outlet for their problems in their life. If they are...

There are genome scientists working on genetic markers related to diseases. And a smaller number working on genetic markers related to aberrant personality disorders. So it is coming. And I am not saying I prefer that future or that future is any more likely than anyone else's best guess...

I prefer 'God'. :p Seriously, I don't care whether it is DM or GM

I can make a case that the future as described probably isn't possible. If you want to be a utopian society, then one needs to control or eradicate the root causes of violent and aberrant personalities. Changes to the genome of fetuses that show generic predisposition to sociopathy or...

I have a crib sheet of the basics that I give to new players to the game. We do a few walkthrough combats prior to actual playing so they can experience the thrill (or agony) of combat. During these walkthroughs, I explain why they are rolling certain dice, etc. I explain the tactical side...

It is easy to fix.... the NPC Cleric leaves due to conflict of interest with the party's goals (if the party is allowing the Cleric of Nerull to continue to associate and have a free hand, then the party's goals are at odds with the belief systems of Pelor). Said NPC Cleric could come back at...

I'm finding irony in the irony. And it's irony that I am commenting on it right now. :lol:

Whoa... What is truly interesting to me is that I've been in several of those campaigns whose situations were exactly as described in the article.... (Killing Thor with a push spell and the wizard with the star destroyers) Which means either that some of the other players in those campaigns I...

Thank the gods for that, because if this was the inital showing of the DI, I say that we nuke it from orbit.... ;)

What is with all the elf hating these days? This makes, what, some three or four threads now that equate to elves = sucks.