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Ah. I didn't say that. I think it's pretty clear what I wrote.

True. It's only about 9 hours of time spent for a 5th level magic-user to memorize all his allowed spells (6 hours of rest for memorizing 3rd level spells and 2 hours and 45 minutes for memorizing the desired spells) but it's certainly not going to get better over time. If we take a 9th level...

Good analysis. I would also like to note that memorizing spells in AD&D was very time intensive as well. I recall having to literally spent 15 minutes per spell level. This means that if a magic-user were to memorize 4 1st level spells, 2 2nd level spells, and 1 3rd level spell, it would take 2...

Don't read too heavily into Forgespeak. My personal opinion is while they have done a good job of compiling assorted ideas about gaming, the Forge also talks a lot of smack and most of thier theories fail to account for D&D.

Yes. I like the uberfeats. I am really liking the material and it pains me that Monte didn't think of this eight years ago.

The Star of Kolhapur is a good Indian-flavored adventure: http://paizo.com/store/downloads/wizardsOfTheCoast/aDAndD2/adventures/v5748btpy7mgn

When I make a sandbox, I start with a basic adventuring hook, build an short adventure around it, and then expand outside of that adventure to focus on the base town, the surrounding wilderness, and interesting sites within that wilderness. For the town, I create the authority figures, thier...

I like sandboxes too but they really require the right kind of players unless play is intentionally structured to encourage it. Tools such as calendars, hex area maps, random encounter charts, rumor tables, instigative events and characters, quests/missions (with clear but not always truthful...

Nonsense. It's the player's responsibility to manage challenge levels - the DM should throw out whatever is appropriate. If they bite off more than they can chew, so be it.

They don't make sense? Wandering monsters make perfect sense. Wandering monsters were there to keep the game moving by punishing players who wasted time in the dungeon (instead of setting objectives and meeting them in a prompt fashion) - a reasonable emulation of the race against time element...

Well played monster!

Says you! More robots please!

Man. If only it were true. I love you, Senzar!

Random dungeons all the way!

Everything outside of the core and the main campaign setting book (if I'm using a campaign book). The last campaign I ran, after getting comfortable with the players, I thought I could trust them with material outside of the original set of permissible books. Stupid move. It led to the cleric...

Agreed. Break up as soon as you can.

Senzar is far from a bad game, but it has a bad reputation in some circles. So I'll choose it.

I find Rifts to be a very fun game, so I disagree.

Campaign Update The game's still going strong with just two players but we could use one more person. Although we now use the Psionics Teamspeak server for interaction, IRC is still in use for dice rolling and private messaging. Besides that, everything is the same, although new players should...

Me too, ayup.