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No. I don't enjoy playing a wizard under the current (and previous) spellcasting rules. The last game I played in, I had a 6th-level Wizard, and I ended up getting extremely bored after I'd used a few of my better spells. I still had a few spells left, but I wanted to conserve those in case...

I voted for Greyhawk, Mystara, and Birthright. However, I would much rather see WOTC design a whole new world from scratch that incorporated some of the best features of many of these classic settings. The cultural variety and diversity of Mystara's "Known World," a dash of gothic horror from...

Taking a single line like that out of context is never going to paint an accurate picture of what the person is saying. A tactic used by fearmongers everywhere. :cool:

Oh come on, D&D gamers would never, ever do that.

I started playing D&D with the Basic, Expert, Companion, and Master rules sets, which, as previously mentioned, had a built-in limit of 36th level for human characters. When I "moved on" to Advanced D&D, I was somewhat bothered that the tables in the books only covered advancement through the...

Even if there was a bit of misleading on the part of certain individuals from Wizards of the Coast, it's still way better than TSR under Lorraine "Gamers Are Not My Social Equals" Williams.

Page count doesn't mean a whole lot... there are vast sections of all three core books that I almost never use. Remember when the 2nd Edition PHB and DMG were "revised" and re-released with black covers in the mid-nineties? I saw the ads for "33% more pages" in Dragon and thought that was...

My very first exposure to D&D would have been the two licensed video games on the Intellivision around 1982. After that, it would have been the cartoon on TV and the Endless Quest books, which my mom picked up for me when I was into the Choose Your Own Adventure series of books when I was 10...

Windows ME was another iteration of the 95/98 code base. Windows 2000 was originally planned as the integration of the NT codebase with the consumer OS but that ended up being mostly scrapped and XP was where it happened. XP was mostly Windows 2000 with a new GUI and enhanced backwards...

I'm definitely buying the core books, but I plan on being a lot choosier about which supplemental books I buy. I've passed on a lot of the 3.5 books, after being an obsessively indiscriminate 2e gamer with an insane number of settings and supplements.

Precisely the post I was going to make. It's far and away my favourite non-core D&D/D20 book. Its awesomeness was enough for me to scrap much of the world that I had been developing and instead base my world around the book. It's an early 3e book, so the mechanics haven't all aged terribly...

Please not Java... I couldn't bear it if it all runs as slow as PCGen. I've never run a Java app that didn't make my modern PC feel like a 286.

I'm not upset, for most of the same reasons that you listed. The 3.x rules are an improvement over previous editions in most respects (and I've been playing 20+ years now), but they're not perfect. I do think that it takes more time to prepare for a 3e game than the 1e and 2e games that I used...

That is awesome and pumps up my excitement to new levels.

I never found the conversion guides to be terribly useful. It was never that difficult to just take the concept of a character or monster and re-build it using the new set of rules.

Pasted from another forum: I, for one, am really liking how it sounds so far...

My guess is the gnome. I think in 20 years of gaming I've only ever seen one player make a gnome PC. Gnomes don't really feel different enough from dwarves and halflings to have a really distinct identity. Probably doesn't help that I started with B/X D&D where gnomes were not a playable...

D&D has only been a "20-level" game since 2nd Edition, and even then it wasn't actually a limit. 1st Edition AD&D didn't have a hard level limit, and module H4 Throne of Bloodstone was even advertised as being for character levels 18-100. The Mentzer-edited Basic/Expert/Companion/Masters D&D...

The core rules should also include variations on how to run low-magic and high-magic settings. I would actually kind of like to see a bit of a throwback to the B/X/C/M/I days in one aspect: Re-define "Epic Level" to be around 12th or above, and put all of those high-level class abilities and...

I'm in favour of a general streamlining of rules overall, but there are a few things I would like to see addressed specifically. Characters classes should adopt the "Talent Trees" seen in Star Wars SE, which would incorporate all of the "alternate class features" from various recent rulebooks...