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but then, on the website , it says: "Availability: This project is closed and no longer available to the public, though patrons of the current Open Design project can obtain a copy. To become a member of the current Open Design project, the Arabian Nights project." i am confused. so, can you...

you are forgetting, maybe, that one of the design goals was make the old books almost 100% usable with the new edition? that's why the proficiencies are "optional", for example. you say that this business decision is timid. maybe. i can still take out the temple of elemental evil and run it in...

i'm already thinking of buying some form of membership for this module... i am interested in the essays, too, and i like mr. baur's work in 2e (not a fan of 3e, sorry!)... so i might put up with the system change just to get the ideas. but, unless i am reading your post wrong, there is no plan...

not everyone might know this index http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/ i really really really don't have words. i bless this andrew crosset's name every time i consult the index, because... well, it's just too good for words. i love you andrew! thanks!!! PS: if people like the index, is there...

there was an article somewhere in dragon which had rules for applying skills and powers to athas... i can't remember the issue, this time, but it should be around 250s-260s? do you know the Dragon master index? check skills and options on it, i'm sure you'll find it. ps: in case you don't know...

well, the fact that a number of people have raised the same "personal preferences", even when they admit that, yes, 3e is good for this or that mechanical development, should be a clear signal that there "personal preferences" are not just a one time thing, but maybe they hint at different...

hello! :) ideally, this should be done in ravenloft, but then it was never really implemented that much in the published adventures or books, as far as i can remember. a pity, really.

oh, don't get me wrong. as i said, i loved it in the beginning. but then, i started asking myself just how many dragons i could put in my game world. since, as i said, i don't like the proliferation of dragons, the answer was "not many". it went all downhill from there. it would be extremely...

how could i forget those? seconded!

don't feel stupid. in my opinion, dark sun is the only setting in which psionics were not just an afterthought. if you are a newcomer that knows virtually nothing of the setting, it's excusable! :) :P

unless you have only the player's option books, i would go: core AD&D. psionics handbook. original dark sun boxed set. if you want a setting rulebook, you can get: the will and the way (excellent for psionic heavy campaigns) or dragon king (i am not 99% sure it's the correct name, but it...

I really have to strongly agree with Vascant. even if I had the time to follow what goes on behind the scenes, there are past projects that i would really like to take a look at (the ghoul one comes to mind). maybe i can suggest waiting a 6 months grace period, and then sell the product to...

can you speculate on this? i'm interested to hear other people's opinion.

i am surprised by my own feelings on this analysis. ideally, i always thought that (adult) dragons belonged to the high end of monster powers... but then you mention how in AD&D there were fiends and some undead monsters that were more powerful, and that certainly has its charms, too, given...

i don't know now, but back in the days there used to be an article in dragon magazine EVERY BLOODY MONTH detailing a dragon from the realms. in the beginning it was cool. after 12+ months it started to feel like postmodernism gone wrong...

yes, surely the taste of each DM counts a lot. but then again, i don't see so much hype (by designers) on other monsters that are just as cool as dragons... but, admittedly, maybe it's just my tastes and my perception of things. :)

ark! how dare you pronouncing that name on these boards?!!? :P :D

fair enough. on the other hand, there have been campaigns i've run in which the WHOLE party didn't have, between the PCs, 10 magical items (excluding magic scrolls and projectiles/ arrows, obviously). i can't remember having a particularly thougher time running the game, nor i recall the lack of...

i agree with you, but how would you have solved the problem, mechanically, in the context of AD&D? removing the racial level limits would have taken out even the (let's face it) rather illusory and surely long term advantage that humans had on other races. just leaving things as they were...

i think he's referring to the fact that PCs tended to die more often than in 3e, and that, at least in my campaigns, raising them wouldn't have been that easy. so, when your character died, you had to roll a new one. i've never met anyone whose campaign allowed more than a character per player...