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My expectations are that the GM knows the setting, actively works to suspend my disbelief, and drops in a few nuggets of "setting content" from time-to-time to help us identify with it. I have never left a game because I didn't feel the DM was being true to the line... but I've never really...

"Gonzo" is now my term-of-choice for describing Mystara. Thanks guys. :-) I'm a huge Mystara fan, to the point that I basically ignored 1e and 2e campaign settings (except for Planescape) and ran a BECMI campaign for more than a decade. Having said that, even I have to admit there is no...

As a player and DM of Avengers, I have to agree with the majority of posts here. Of all the "unbalanced" problems to have, a high AC is by far the least worrying to me. Wizard "orb locks", 4+ ranger attacks per round, and battlerage vigor "damage reduction" are all bigger headaches. Given my...

I have a 3rd level bard that was a major damage dealer in KotS (just about to start Thunderspire)... but only because I intentionally took powers to replace our lack of a controller. Shout of Triumph (Bard encounter 1) and Burning Spray (Sorcerer at-will 1; half-elf option) are close blast...

B4 is indeed awesome, and that's a very cool idea. I enjoyed the 3e updates to the Lost City in Dragon (campaign classics), Dungeon (short module) and Elder Evils (Zargon)... but I'd really love to see a more extensive treatment. I've run variants of B4 several times over the last 20+ years...

BECMI: B4 - The Lost City (10 level dungeon, 4 new religions, an entire campaign setting in one of the earliest isometric maps, and an incredibly vicious and evocative uber-villain... in one basic module. Awesome!) 1e: G1/2/3 - Against the Giants (...primarily for the "weird bits", like the...

In my DM'ing experience, I'm something like this as well. However, I apply the ruling that some monsters simply can't be intimidated. Although the rules don't say as much, you can't intimidate an ochre jelly. Or a zombie. Or a starspawn of hadar. Some creatures are so mindless or utterly alien...

I would not be upset if they were LG, unaligned, or even CE. Who cares about the alignment listing? It has almost no mechanical bearing on the game in 4e, and is the easiest thing in the entire stat block to modify. I like the concept (not necessarily implied in the 4e material) that dragons...

Favorites: Avenger - Always (or almost always...) hitting is awesome. It's a highly mobile class, so you're always moving around the battlefield. More crits than usual (nearly 10% chance with every attack), and high AC. It's a mechanics dream. Bard - Jack of all trades. Good in nearly every...

Experience from my games has been a curve. Character death used to be extremely common until my players figured out some of the tricks to staying alive. Now, it has diminished to the point that a character dying in a session is unusual. Some stats... Campaign #1: Approx 24 (5-hour) sessions...

Hoo boy, am I gonna draw some flak for this... Eberron. And not for the obvious reasons. I have no beef with Warforged. I like the dragonmarks, I like Sharn, and I love what they did with aerenal elves and the dino-riding halflings. I like the magical trains. In fact, I like all of the...

Interesting... I'm trying to think through this, but replacing "treats others as if..." with "assumes society is...". Hence, an LG character is good and assumes society is inherently good. Evil is an unnatural aberration to be smote, and there is little need for subterfuge (because most people...

I'm somewhat startled to hear some of the numbers here, but I guess it just shows the diversity of gaming experiences. From a player's perspective, we cleared Keep on the Shadowfell in three 7-hour sessions, and gained approximately 1 level in each session. Our 5 PCs completed 7-8 combats each...

Games: I won't play 3e (great game, but I've been playing it for many years and I want to experience something new - plus I hate DMing it, and I'm the usual group DM) I'd prefer not to play anything which is diceless (Amber, despite my love of the setting), LARP-y/angsty (World of Darkness)...

I've DM'ed various versions, on average, once per week for 27 years. Hypothetically, I'd love to run BECMI D&D again as a one-off or short campaign - although I doubt any of my playing groups would be interested in returning to it. Other than that, it's 4e all the way. I'd never return to 3e...

Flexible, with a few restrictions. 1) Character choice must be thematic for the campaign. In most campaigns, anything goes. But if they're playing (example) a classic Dragonlance campaign, I'd prefer the player running Tanis to choose an appropriate paragon path (...rather than something that...

I think I would have gone the Zombie Horde route [Open Grave] instead. You get the same effect (masses of zombies swarming the party), but with considerably better mechanics than level 1 minions. Heck, we recently had a level 1 party clear out 22 zombie rotters (and a non-minion "zombie lord")...

Playing in one 4e campaign, and DM'ing two 4e campaigns. ...but also playing around with Dragon Warriors a bit. I listed this as "Other - originally published in the 80's", although the version I'm using is the recent Mongoose updated re-release.

Some differences in the new printings: Main Rulebook - There is a new (and good) introductory module included. Minor changes to several classes. Elementalists got a significant boost by being able to channel raw elemental power as a magical attack (increases by level). Assassins get to select...

The goliath cleric of kovaki is pretty small compared to the other two. He looks about human-sized, although he's making up for his "vertical challenge" with a fairly intimidating two-handed club. The other goliath figures are noticeably larger than the typical human DDM figure. As a...