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Ack! Now you've done it... you dissed race as class. The Basic D&D crowd will descend on this thread with pitchforks and torches! :D

A lot of "problems" related to Halflings is the number of races / ancestries that share similar size / abilities etc. They are not unique or special. Out of curiosity does everyone use all the available races / ancestries in their setting / game? How many people use their own homebrew races /...

There's nothing wrong with the standard bucolic Hobbit / Halfling. The bulk of the population of most races lead non adventurous lives. Humans are mostly peasant farmers, Dwarfs are miners and craftsmen, etc. The adventurers are the ones that don't fit the standard roles of their people /...

I wondered the same. If you listed the books in order of numbers it would be PHB, MM, DMG among the groups I played with. MM outnumbered the DMG. I had 2 MM ('77) before the PHB even came out ('78). Ended up with a couple of them and finally the DMG in '79. We started with original D&D in '74...

Make that 2 gallons of gas (even in California). And I whined about the high price then too :D Of course the minimum wage was about $3-4 an hour iirc. Dragon was a bargain at $3 an issue though. Loved the wondering trees and borrowed the idea for an enchanted woods in my home brew game. Good...

Bingo. It didn't happen that often and past mid levels it took ages to happen. "Gosh, only 60,000 more xp and I go up to 9th level..." I didn't get rid of the xp for gp, I just reduced it. I use silver (rather than gold) as the basic coinage for prices, treasure, etc. I kept the 1 gp = 1xp...

I must be the odd person out... I just want to read the Gods of Runequest. Love Glorantha as a setting. Oh, and Pendragon sounds good as well. I can miss the rest, but to each their own.

And if your description is good enough your players will spend a lot of time in that mundane room trying to figure out if anything is "special" :D

Thanks for the article. Haven't had time to post until now, but I made time to read it as soon as I saw it. Enjoyable as always.

OK. The rules of D&D might be combat heavy. The reason for that is simple. Combat is one of the most consequential bits to PC survival. You can spend several sessions without combat and have it all culminate in a duel. Tooling around town, socializing and preparing for a wedding (invitations...

There was no one system for it. Thieves World wasn't system agnostic either, it was multi-system. Much like the multiple fantasy authors involved in the books the boxed RPG set included many RPG authors. Even Traveller made it in courtesy of Marc Miller. The setting was very interesting, and the...

The following is imho, of course. Magic is not a miracle in a world with magic. Magic is part of that world's natural laws. Magic has laws, or at least boundaries, and is consistent. You (at least as the DM) know what it can, and can't, do. Players not knowing is no different from their...

I don't think anyone said they were entitled to character generation, just that they needed to see it before they decided their level of interest. And I think they are right :) The rest of the rules might be OK, but with Middle Earth the main draw is the setting. Pretty maps and lore will draw...

They actually put out quite a bit of Eberron material back in the 3.x days as I recall... not quite the glut of setting specific stuff 2E settings got, but not insignificant. Or maybe it's age affecting my memory :D

Ha! Someone else thinks work is a good excuse for procrastination. Kind of like picking your poison :D

It's a really fun peek into a homebrew setting. Very cool. Also cool that a lot of the ideas (if not all) made it into a later published setting. Excluding material borrowed from other sources would be required before publication of course. The nice thing about home games is you don't have to...

Not so slight. That's Elric and Moonglum of Elwher.

All right. You've got me listening to Berlin again...

I plan on picking it up, just to see who's right :D

TSR covered all the basic monsters you really needed in the MM. If you were publishing more monsters, they needed to be either setting specific, niche, or just really different. Later MMs and the FF were a bit repetitive (more humanoids...), filled in niches that were missed, or were different...