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Less magic. I like high magic, but the current D&D is overdoing it a bit even for my tastes. I mean, there are a total of four character classes out of eleven that don't cast spells, and the monk still has supernatural abilities. Virtually all PrCs give out some (Su) ability at one point or...

Ok, who voted half-orc and why?

It's a scheme commonly used in fantasy fiction. It's handy because the reader at the beginning doesn't know anything about the setting. You pick a clueless protagonist so that you can explain the setting to the reader in manageable bits, while the protagonist himself finds out about it...

Here's the reasoning I did with Planescape and 3E. The fact that the original material was in a different system didn't bother me much, nor did it make my manuals worthless. Planescape manuals are extremely light on the rules anyway. Their value is in the setting info and background. So keep...

*shrug* I've got no interest in Ptolus, so this doesn't touch me. On a more abstract level, I think that high-cost, high-quality, high-pagecount books are a good idea. I've almost bought WLD, and the reason I didn't buy it wasn't the cost but the fact that my players don't like dungeons. If I...

He doesn't really mix good and evil into it. I think he says that a balance between Law and Chaos is a good thing, and that preponderance of either is bad (and can eventually cause the end of the world as we know it). In Elric's saga, the world is very heavily tilted towards Chaos. So Chaos...

If I had to make a beginner book, I'd make it so that characters created with it were compatible with the full game, and yet more simple. A way to do this would be: - Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, Cleric. Only. You can multiclass, though. - Fighter doesn't get to choose extra feats. They are...

I agree. And I say this as a 3E fanatic. I'd decline a 1e/2e game - but politely. I enjoy discussing past editions, because I like wrapping my mind around other people's points of view, but I find it weird that people actually get angry about it.

Something else. I got into videogame RPGs (back then, we didn't have the CRPG abbreviation), then into fantasy literature, and then into tabletop RPGs.

I've DMed Planescape, Dragonlance, Warcraft, Mystara and a homebrew. I've played in Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Ravenloft and a couple homebrews.

Too late! Too late! The image of Darkness in a Rocky Horror outfit is now burned into my mind! AAAAAAAGGGH!!

Yup. My PCs always have a scroll of Teleport. I also like to have a bag of holding and a portable hole. I call them "Plan C". :cool:

Is this sarcastic? It would be if I said it. The stuff I produced when I was 12 was sure vast in quantity, but today I know that it was worth less than the paper it was written on, and that the only reason we had fun using it was because, well, we were 12. I'm not less creative, I'm just...

I only game with my close friends and I don't really have any community except for enworld; my free time is constantly dwindling; and I play Planescape. Despite all of this, I want to game even more.

Areas of strong magical of physical energies may make teleportation hazardous or even impossible. Set the adventure in a volcano or something like that. Another strategy could be to stick the PCs with a bunch of people they have to protect. They won't be able to teleport everyone. Or, you can...

Start out chaotic, get the barbarian levels, and then become lawful. He loses Rage, but he's only taking Barbarian for the speed and uncanny dodge anyway. It's very cheesy. I'll use it in the next campaign with a DM I don't like. :]

I don't judge games without having tried them. I would try it out no matter what, and then decide. Chances are that when 4e comes out, I'll be pretty tired of 3.5e anyway, so it'll have the newness factor as a positive - but if it is bad, I won't play it. What I don't get is the folks saying...

There are alignment conflicts in there. Even assuming that you switch alignments at appropriate times (extra cheesy, I know), you're going to either lose paladin abilities (and PrCs that require them) or barbarian rage.

For 3.5, WotC did.

Currently, there is no 4e, nor any information about it. So I think it's a bit early to start saying that you don't like it, isn't it? For what you know, the next edition could very well fix all the reasons for which you don't like the current one. After all, you're talking about C&C, so you...