OT: Gaming & D&D updates...

[red5angel]

design sifu, not sure what you mean by hourly bonus. I however try to encourage my players to work as a group, hence my experience awards for moving the story along.

As for 3rd ed. I like it. It isn't AD&D by any means and that is part of the thing I like. You still have all the basics, hit points, D20 etc.. they have just managed to ****genize the system some, make it more streamlined and intuitive. You no longer have rolls that you need ot get high and rolls you need to get low, or D20 and percentage dice rolls. Everything minus damage is pretty much rolled on the D20 now.
On top of that they have really opened up character creation so that you have an extreme amount of flexibility. Detailed rules on playing monster characters, prestige classes and feats really come together in my opinion to make for some really interesting character creation. On top of all that it makes for some great bad guys!
All in all I have been extremely satisfied and I think most of those out there who say they prefer AD&D, probably don't like change
It's comprehensive. covers just about anything you or your players think up, and with the D20 system being wide open for anyone to develope, the amount of source material is insane!

[Oso]

my other fav char which was illegal under 1st and 2nd is
a 1/2 elven druid/thief, his name was Phaid, cuz that's what
he did.....



oh, the gnomes name (hehe) was


Mala ZinZam

or just MZ for short

raofl


ohhhhh,

Bombay Sapphire
is so yummy
sends a fire
to my tummy


of work early, got the V-day shopping done, just waitin' for the
Lady to come home

[red5angel]

I never paid attention to racial limits in the last couple of editions, I thought it was kind of silly since they were just looking to balance out the cool races with plain ole vanilla humans. I know I always had more humans then anything else, even without the racial limitations on class.

[@PLUGO]

Not sure the origin of this convention, but it basicly ment if you played you would get 100xp per hour per level (I think) for just being a part of the game. This would help offset any situations where an hour o r so was spent with the thief disarming some elaborate trap.

Monster XP was devided amongst participants in combat, tallied up and given by the DM after the session.

No XP was granted for treasure.

And Rollplaying was awared as a flat number or as an aditional bonus to the hourly XP. "you get 1.5 time hour bonus" or "take an additional hour for role playing"

It's been AGES since I gamed though.
no time, less money... and few others interested...

[Oso]

DS, that's an interesting method. Never heard anyone else do it
that way.

red5, we abided by the racial limitations mostly but not level limits
for different races.

3ed does make more sense I guess.

aaghh, it hurts, stop the changing, I can't stand it.

[ZIM]

I seem to remember you were asking for an airsoft pistol for your wife??

[Oso]

thanks, and blue is her favorite color, too!!!

[@PLUGO]

Yeah... when I got into gaming with the crew I gamed with, we collectively added a variety of changes to the game.

Hourly XP cameabout as a reaction to a fearcely boring DM who would subject the group to a variety of time consuming tortures. One that springs to mind was the use of an othello board to map an endlessly contradictory dungeon. We did nothing but move from one empty room to another, each one demanding an elaborate re-configuration of the othello board. From that point onward Hourly bonus as a sort of carrot to risk DM experimentation.

Monster HP was generally their HDx10...

this eventually lead to custome made monsters to challange charactors possessing a variety of custome made magik items. It was a sort of never ending cycle... sort of like weapons proliferation!!!

Still, we had fun.

[ZIM]

thanks, and blue is her favorite color, too!!!

Well, I guess this won't go, then. [PS- what is it with Hello Kitty??]

[Oso]

no, it wouldn't.

I think HK is a cartoon.

[red5angel]

Oso, you can't resist the change...any reasonable minded person would see the benefits of 3rd Ed over AD&D, come on you know you wanna try it....first session is free....

[Oso]

oh, I am, after selling 20 years of accumulated D&D books I only
have 3ed stuff.

MOF, I just bought a used d20 book I saw at the book store today


but, seriously, nothing wrong with AD&D no matter what addition
The preface of the PH and DMG always told you to use the books
as guidelines and change what you wanted.

House Rules in effect...always.


Now, about this M:TG issue you have....

[red5angel]

Yep, in AD&D we sort of had our adhoc rules thrown together tthat worked a little better then the written rules.

The only issue with M:TG that I have is that I can't burn down buildings holding M:TG tournemants in them at the time they are holding them...