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The wife and I have lifetime subs too. While I don't disagree with trancejeremy about the nature of most of the thousands of LOTRO quests (I play pretty infrequently anymore, myself), that darncat is absolutely right. There are some very cool storyline quests woven through the various zones and...

I want Bards to to fully revert to their 1e Druidic roots. Any spells they get (as opposed to class abilites) should come from the druid lists. As for the rest, I like the warrior skald/bard to the warchief vibe, so they should get medium armors, up to chain, and a good selection of martial...

Your variant is more in line with the rules for Cavaliers. That would have been better. I wish I would have thought to do it that way at the time. Though having the magic-user get a stat increase in Dex was pretty funny. I'm sure going from 9 to 10 helped him a lot. :) I do remember having...

You actually added the result of 2d10 to the percentile. Kept the stat inflation fairly modest. The last 1e campaign I ran longterm used this variant for all 6 ability scores. The players enjoyed the bonus and the occassional stat increase, but the overall effect was pretty modest. We played...

I had originially planned to go this year, but the wife and I just had another baby and my wife still won't be medically cleared. I hope V is the lucky number for me, too.

Some excellent suggestions here. I would add: The adventure novels of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson (Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, et al.) Also the fantasy novels of Guy Gavriel Kay (Fionavar trilogy, Tigana, Song for Arbonne, the Sarantium duology, et al.)

Evil, Black elves and Drizzzzzzzzz. If I could go back in time, they would be on my list of things to undo.

Sure, offer me easy, practical advice. Sorry, but I expect the designers of 5e to cater to my every whim and use fairy dust to fix all my problems for me.;)

I can see your point (and its not far from my own preference) that rattling off stats takes everyone away from the game fiction. I disagree that unpredictable defenses is immersion breaking or rather that it is necessary for characters to have reasonable guesses to encourage immersion. Life...

One of my players has been doing a lot of reading on monsters, I assume because he's expressed an interest in doing some DMing. Unfortunately he shares with the rest of the players. Its not a big problem and they don't argue with me or anything when I tell them the defenses are different. I...

Cool, more power to you. I will posit that it is a lot easier for you to tell them up front, "The goblin warchief is AC 17" than it is for me to keep that fact hidden if the game designers make it easily available to players.

DDI subs. The monster information is all readily available to the players who have subs for access to the character builder. I can no longer rely on the inherent cheapness of gamers to limit their access to monster manuals. I think there is a point where too much player knowledge of the...

I don't care if my player's know their THAC0 or BAB (or whatever 5e calls it) I just don't want them to know the target number or have some expectation of a target number fostered by an overly rigid npc design framework that says AC is Level +5. Actually, I like 3e/4e exposing all of the...

Yeah, I know that. Stylistically, I'm not a fan of treasure and rewards being baked into the mechanics of leveling. It's not a deal breaker for me and I've enjoyed playing and running 4e for the last 3 years, but I would prefer the treasure and leveling mechanics to be separate.

An interesting question, Mark. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I had a few experiences with bad DMs in a high school gaming club. It was one of the things that lead me to start DMing myself. I've also experienced that out of control monty haul style of play that used to lead to uncontrollably...

Points for the Father of the Game.

That's great. I'm glad I didn't hold off ordering mine.

Pre-order in. I'm really looking forward to this.

Brings back fond memories of Cyrano de Squirrelzerac. Poor character was never loved as he desired to be.

Isn't every third set of MTG a core set that replaces the previous core set? I believe that is the business model here with a lower frequency of core replacement. 5e will release, a bunch of expansion modules will release, then 6e will release with about an 80 - 90% rule overlap with the...