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i have to say that, for all my negative remarks, i can't disagree with this. 3e saved D&D fullstop. and it also allowed the flourishing of a number of independent companies that have been producing very good supplements, and are now branching off in their own ways. on the other hand... quote...

i don't think 3e was an improvement at all, sorry. sure, there are many many neat ideas in it. i LOVE that monsters have save and ability scores in their stat blocks (i never understood why they gave us just intelligence and why saving throw weren't contemplated in AD&D). i like the idea of...

BAD DM! BAD DM! :D sorry, just kidding. but you see, you realise it yourself: for whatever reason, you want to have control... and that's never going to reduce the enjoyment at the table regardless of the style of the players. if you have a great game while being rather... ehm... "controlling"...

in general i'd agree with you. on the other hand, if i had to hide, i'd keep a low profile, or at least change name and style, rather than asking people in the street if they recognise me. i might enjoy being the centre of the attention, but it's only logical that then i suffer the consequences...

oh, another thing: do force logic into game. if character X is in hiding and talks about herself to any other NPC, then X's husband should be quickly find out where she is, and decide to pay her a visit. until it seems that whatever she does is cool and has very few consequences, she won't pay...

talking to her might not bear the fruits you want, depending on the type of person she is. from what you say, i don't think it would help much. maybe she's the type of player that is less interested by role playing and more about the tactical side of the game. if that's the case, you simply...

thanks to everybody who replied. i think that by putting together the parts of your advices that i can most easily use, i can start learning how to relax a bit more. it also does help that coming back to newcastle i found my girlfriend 3 times more in love with me. :P anyway, i'm going to...

mate, you're trying to help, and i'm most grateful! :) it's hard to understand situations when all you kow is a couple of lines from someone you never saw in your life! :)

in fact, they've been arguing for much much more time than that. people have been arguing about morals for, what, 5 thousand years? or is it more? :)

i wish i could state my view on the subject, but doing so would break *several* rules on conduct of the board about religion and politics... and i am not prepared to do this. i will, then ask you a couple of questions. do you think that people truly, honestly believing that they are doing...

who are these people, anyway? given that the paladins are first and foremost a force of good, i would find them quite misguided to think that they would go to war against an overall good race... especially if they would have to team up with some evil devils to do so!!! if it was a case of...

not that many core mechanics are tied to it... and stuff like "this magical item deals damage to you, if you are not LG" can be easily ignored, just like you can ignore alignment restrictions for classes and the like. not necessarily. if a rule is supposed to regulate a quantifiable part of...

i think this whole debate boils down to one single question: what kind of game is D&D trying to be? if it's a game trying to mirror medieval legends and folklore or some specific fantasy litterature (lord of the rings, or high fantasy in general), then the alignment has to stay in an play a...

well, in the lord of the rings, to name a little meaningless book, there is a clear idea of what is good and what is evil, as far as i remember (it's been years, since i last read it). boromir tries to commit an evil act to get the ring from frodo... and see how much trouble came from that...

as you said, it's up to the DM. if he wants to enforce a given philosophy in his game world (killing baby orcs is not good), and he realizes that the player (or the character) didn't really mean to commit what he considers an evil act, the DM might allow the character to atone in some way. if...

you are forgetting mystara. there was no G-E axis in BECMI

that's a game information that a character wouldn't have access to. and even if he would, all the better: it reinforces the dilemma, rather than solving it. :)

cheer up. i had a similar experience, albeit i didn't get married. i won't go into the details, but i basically lost 3 years of my life because i decided to drop out from my math degree, for a girl. *very* bad decision for many reasons, but anyway. i, like you, going back would do it again...

hey, it's ok. as i said, i was overworked... plus boston isn't exactly a little town! :)

ah, but that's the thing for me. the passage between paying the price and having what you want is not so linear. it's not like going to the store to buy a fridge or something. example #1: i want to record my music with my band. it doesn't really matter who is in the band, as long as we get...