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Huh! All these years I assumed that the "Fireball radius = always the same" was part of our use of the common house rule of not following fireball's volumetric conformance requirement. And yet our DM was indeed following the letter of (spell) law.

Huh, coupled with taking some wizard schools as a sphere, I bet this would be the perfect way to make a good 2e gish! :)

Yeah, monks play quite differently in 4e than in other versions, being a multi-target striker (at least until the Desert Wind monk came along and created a path for some single-target focus). Ki powered, attacking NADs, and with powers like being able to shift their speed + some number across...

Speaking of Clerics... the 2e Player's Option version of the Cleric, where you could purchase the invocation/evocation school of magic as one of your usable domains. Run around in plate armour, a shield, a mace, and cast fireball! (Did make for a way to make an 'elemental priest', though...)

Hmmm... that kinda feels like 1e summed up in 5 words, doesn't it? ;)

Cool to hear! Any word on when it or the next preview will be released?

Accidentally bought a sword from this recent UK Games Expo? Not me. Has "accidentally" bought a sword-like object at sometime that did started a particularly geometrically growing collection? That... might indeed be me. Yes. :) (Humorously, I don't think any of my 20-odd "actual swords"...

We've played a cyberpunk inspired campaign, set in the Eberron city of Sharn (the City of Towers) and where we were all playing the Disney princesses. So that can totally work. :D Sounds like the game was a lot of fun! My regular Sunday group will be taking a short break later this month so...

My favourite part of 1e Psionics was that they were resolved before any other action in a round. Crush their heads and heal your bones and leap to the heavens before anyone else can act! That is, favourite part unless you're like me and completely forget that feature (or that you have psionics...

Wow, for all the versions rattling around in my head, I had forgotten just how punishing the 1e version was! 2e's much more lenient (though still prone to vagueness) version is what stuck in my head more.

Module H4, the Throne of Bloodstone! A module that I have so wanted to run for something like 30 years. Three campaign attempts, and furthest one made it through H3 before the group dissolved.* (Not on account of the Bloodstone campaign... at least, I don't think it was due to that!) Alas! *...

Hahahahaha, wow, I had almost forgotten about that one! I remember reading it in the letters section (I think it was the letters section?) when that issue of Dragon came out... true classic.

I very distinctly remember 2e dragons. Hitting the gym and getting their stats/power bumped really turned them into foes to remember as compared to their 1e incarnations! Suddenly the big name on the front of the book really meant something. :) And then there were the specific rules for FR...

Och, alas our group also meets on Sundays (amusingly about to step away from the 4e campaign we've been playing to give the Troubleshooters a go) else I would totally be in! Enjoy everyone! Looking forward to reading all about it. :)

Heh, it is all too common that I have to preface or otherwise caveat when I talk about a rule or item description or cost or whatever within the game with "I think that's how it is in this edition..." Too many editions rattling around up there. ;)

There was always the joy of fireball! "The burst of the fireball does not expend a considerable amount of pressure, and the burst will generally conform to the shape of the area in which it occurs, thus covering an area equal to its normal spherical volume. [The area which is covered by the...

Oh yes, it is perhaps the ultimate classic (the counterpoint being/becoming the high-level scry-and-slay). :)

IIRC, in the Gold Box/Silver Box games, they had hitting a held target as an auto-kill. Cue my spellcaster paralyzing a dragon, then throwing a single dart to annihilate them...

As a continuation of @Reynard's first post and @Snarf Zagyg's advice, rarely is there an adventure (or campaign!) that is totally dead/sunk/screwed up. There's often the chance to course correct, even mid way through, to get back to a place that's cool and exciting for the group. It's happened...

I will third Cortex Prime as a system that handles well what is generally meant by characters of different power 'levels.' The way I'd describe it is that each character is roughly equal on their ability to contribute and to move the story forward, even if their 'physical' power level in the...