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So the thing with Haste and extra spells boils down to novas (i.e. blowing everything you have in a few encounters). To counter this: Quickened spells are expensive, if you're not using the metamagic staves. (Which, come to think of it, might be a 3.5 thing.) If you only allow quickened...

Not 1e; B/X. The progression from pure veteran fighter to called paladin lines up very neatly with the advanced classes of that system.

Yeah, 2e psionics was a lot better. It's my favorite, flavor-wise. Mechanically, it was a bit wonky. Most of the wonkiness could be avoided just be every avoid just by everyone being reasonable in their power use. But even so, there were a couple of powers that were ... imbalanced. And...

No, in fairness, 1e psionics was broken mechanically. In large part because psionics was wildly different than magic, it was a "tacked on" subsystem, and characters didn't have anything approaching default defenses against psionics according to the subsystem. And the psionic monsters (like the...

I should caveat that while I want psionics, I don't want just a reflavoring. The closer the psionics system captures the flavor of the Deryni novels the better I like it, flavor-wise. (Or Norton's Witchworld's.) But mechanically, it has to fit into the same power structure as the existing...

It's long been established that the length of the average campaign is approximately 6 months. Or, if meeting every week, 24 sessions. At a 4 session/level pace (which is what's recommended), that's 6 levels. That's simply just not enough time to climb up to the higher levels. Now, I don't...

I answered "Not Sure." But that's an incomplete answer. It's "Not Sure" because 1) We're not currently using 5e (PF2e Remaster for the current campaign); 2) The current campaign is FAR from over (probably another 2+ years at their current pace). 3) I'm the Forever GM, and I'm not sure the next...

This is getting harder, as many of the obvious stances have already been used. LG: The Law Protects. LN: Obey the Law. LE: The law serves my needs. NG: There is Good, and there is Evil. It's not hard to tell them apart. N: Not my circus, not my monkey, not my problem. NE: My needs matter, yours...

The only ones I ever retained were the Magic-User/Wizard ones, since they can/do correspond to Spell Level increases. Looking at these, I homebrewed the titles a lot more than I remembered. I use Wizard 1st-Level Spells: Apprentice 2nd-Level Spells: Journeyman 3rd-Level Spells: Magician...

Re: D&D General - The D&D Memes Thread You can charge extra if you teach it to dance. As long as it isn't the chicken dance.

Halfling Paladin

For new GMs/DMs/referees? My hard won advice - Don't Panic. EVERY time I've made a decision I've regretted. It's because I panicked. Panic lead directly to the ending of my first campaign. (Which was my first campaign, but still.) 2nd bit - to avoid railroading, don't write or require...

Heh. Probably not what you're looking for, but this site has some articles by Jonathan Tweet about the Road to 3e. You can find it towrds the bottom of the Columns menu.

Also, Eric Noah's website (via Wayback) would probably be a very good source for references. :D

Not pulp, it's superheroes, but it is explictly set in WW2 and the players are on the Allies side: Godlike. Justice Inc., is a Hero system supplement that should match, even if it is focused on 1920/30-era gangs, it should work fine for WW2 Pulp. There's almost certainly GURPS and Savage World...

Huh. Dungeoneers * Wilderness Survival Guide were both '86. OA was '85. I would have quoted them as the origin of skill checks. I Learned Something Today(tm). And since youu're so gung ho on them, and since I still have NO IDEA what book you're referencing, could you supply the titles to the FR...

Whoo boy. No. Introduced to D&D as a player in 81 with no rulebook access. Picked up the 1e DMG and PHB immediately after that with NO other experience. Had absolutely no experience with OD&D or B/X prior. And had no trouble reading either publication cover to cover or understanding how to use...

Actually, if I'm building a whole globe, I actually prefer using Fractal Terrains, and then exporting the appropriate regions for the detailed shots. FT generates worlds quickly, and its tweaks are easy to understand, so I can just step through iterations until I find one I like. And FT...

Also have it. And Campaign Cartographer, and a few others. I don't generally create a full random map. I certainly don't for anything the player characters will directly interact with. IMO, it leads to completely nonsense maps - like the one in B1. I find that randomization is great however...

WRT to "Muscular Neutrality", this is one of those themes that can/might benefit from a few rounds of "why-ing". It's something I occasionally do to themes I dislike to see if I can come up with an underlying premise that gives me a better hook to explore. As an example: Why is muscular...