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Both as player and as DM I prefer "wandering". It is nothing like Brownian motion, though. Good "wander" DMs should inform their players about potential adventures here and there so they can made a choice. I also like to, from time to time, bring the adventure to them when they are not...

In relation to Tweet's idea, he is right in noting the importance of art in influencing purchases. My friends keep telling me the try Guardians of Order's Big Eyes, Small Mouth. They keep saying that I'll love the rules which are exactly the kind of stuff I like. If I could only control my...

Perhaps you're right, but most gamers have already a lot of weak d20 books at home -- I trashed all of mine, but some people like to keep stuff at hand even when is useless. Anyway, it might be a good trade to someone interested in HARP.

I guess commoners gain experience points by killing rats, bugs, and so on... :lol: Seriously, don't worry about, experience points are one of the worse D&D rules, in any edition. Think about, there are better ways to keep your self development than killing all people or animals around you.

Good point! Not the easiest, but I agree that it is the best method to convert stats from older editions.

The Voyage of the Princess Ark series by Bruce Heard is, by far, the best articles I ever read in Dragon. I am also liked the Nine Hells by Ed Greenwood and the Anti-Paladin piece, which also got a lot of use in its time. The worst offender was, also by far, The Three Wizards series of articles...

I voted "method actor", although I see myself as a mix of "method actor" with "tactician". Or, perhaps better, "method actor" that, in combat situations, becomes a "tactician" which places characterization as one of the components of the scenario. I enjoy playing with all kinds of player...

I follow Living Greyhawk's in allowing players to spend 28 points instead of rolling 4d6 and I received no serious complaints. I like to work with less than perfect characters, as they usually have more personality than the ones with too good scores.

I've run games in settings with or without firearms. They are a nice addition as they definitely give a different edge to the game. They are not unbalancing, although I had to adapt the DMG weapons to make them more lethal. During game play they are used to discharge a shot, but players rarely...

I probably had something like dozens at one time. However, most of them were never played, some of them were poor purchases and I ended hating them after reading. A couple years ago I started giving away things I wouldn't play anymore. Right now I have only three, although one is at risk, as I...

If you're looking for a replacement of the alignment system, I would suggest you to take a look in the alliance system of Dragon Lords of Melniboné. There is only one axis, Chaos-Law, and characters receive starting numbers on Chaos, Law, and Balance based in their class and race/culture. From...

I have average expectations and bad experience. I used to run most of the games with good to excellent responses. However, about two years ago I became so tired to be the DM that I decided to take a break for a while. Since then, I was in two long (D&D and Wheel of Time) and two short (something...

I follow Zappo in using them only as plot devices: a senile patron here or a very sick wizard that refuses to get help from a cleric. As a matter of fact, I don't recall ever using it with the PCs.

I hardly write anything as preparation to a game. Usually, I write down spellcaster's spells, as it might be hard to track it without taking notes, and I do some very schematic maps. That's it. This doesn't means that I don't spend time thinking about the game. I do. It is one of my main...

Call of Cthulhu is the best rpg I ever played. I think that the design is short of genial in many aspects. I've never even read CoC d20 as I thought it was an unnecessary version. I would say that CoC, along with D&D, Traveller, and GURPS, is one of my default games, i.e., games in which I first...

The best way to do it is to create some plot hooks in advance and to improvise a few new ones (or adjust some previous planned) as the players take unforeseen directions. It requires a good creative mind, which most D&D DM have anyway, and some organization skills as you should note down every...

I don't like psionics in my D&D game and I really dislike the mechanics in AD&D (1st and 2nd edition) as well as the original 3rd edition rules. That said, I thought that the Force System in Star Wars was pretty cool.

Get Pendragon RPG, probably the best game ever done in the subject. Even if you ditch the rules, there is a lot you can take for your D&D game.

As I dislike high level games I usually decrease the rate of character advance in such way that my campaigns can end in a satisfactory way. This is an easy fix.

I think that the D&D Rules Cyclopedia is the best presentation of the D&D rules ever. I don't see why WotC could not combine all core books in a single volume. They already done it in The Wheel of Time RPG, Call of Cthulhu d20 RPG, and Star Wars d20 RPG, so they know how to do it. Quite frankly...