I may not agree with your hours rules, but I do think this is ftw. Not enough people adhere to those old-school D&D principles. My own boil down to three simple rules:

1. The DM is always right.
2. If the DM is ever wrong, see rule 1 and ask for clarification.
3. If you do, somehow, successfully think you have beaten the DM with some measure of ultimate gamer cheese, see rules 1 & 2 and re-think this premise.

Those are universal rules to gaming :) House rules change with each individual DM ^_^

True, but most people forget the universals, so I treat them as house rules so that when people go looking for my house rules there they are like a cold splash of water. This is especially true of the most recent generation of D&D 3.5 players.

Player: "I make a sub-plane, effectively cutting myself of from that plane of the prime material." <and, by implication, the DM>

Me: "Does your plane have, air? Yes? Good. Unfortunate that because it's a sub-plane its subject to the extreme weight of all the other planes of power and therefore has a greatly increased atomic mass. As soon as you cross from this plane to the other you are crushed by the incredible forces of the universe. Would you care to make a new character?

I prefer the old 2nd edition rules when people create there own demiplanes ^_^ "Thank you for the new NPC, I look forward to reviewing your next PC"

Also good.

I certainly like to think so

Not enough of the kids have any respect for the old style gaming...
God now I sound like some mafiosi.

I know that feeling. ^_^ most of my group are people that where raised around gamers tho

Those are the worstest! Tch! Fugging gamers! *winks and snickers uproariously*

XD but I wouldn't trade em for all the tea in china.. now if someone wants to buy that tea.. >.> well

Mmm teeeeea.

^_^ course mixing tea is like mixing sodas, some mixtures taste better than others

I've never played D&D

Thats okay, these rules work with any role playing game

That's just too awesome. I used to give rules like that to players that'd never played games with me before. XD

really? XD thats great

Yeah, I started because I decimated another guy's game by taking out his epic villain in one attack that wasn't even overpowered. Just well thought out RP wise. RP wins over dice almost every time with me running if it's well done, and several friends learned to do the same. It's just more fun.
Hate the fact newer gamers miss that detail playing the newer versions of games. RP's pretty dead with new groups I've tried getting in on. Too many fricken numbers. lol

yes hack and slash, less rp or character development

Exactly. I miss my ranger that never got the joke. There was a music box a chaotic character had that made people laugh maniacally. He always made his save. The DM even gave up and just said he made it after the sixteenth time. lol

XD thats great poor Ranger

XD thats great poor Ranger

awww wish I could play d&d some time

Run out to the nearest gaming area and your set. Game Parlor seems to be the sunday addiction around here for gamers

... im in australia, there are no gaming areas near me ;.;

Well thats something I should tell my ex before she moves ....waiiit... >.> why do I want to warn her?

lol I have no clue really

kay

ya still her friend maybe?

yup :D

well then thats probably the reason that you want to tell her about the lack of d&d

true enough... hmm

u know what my DM just did?
he sent us 1000years to the past to become a PC himself, and gave another member of our party his DM-powers... now we're two sourceres in the past, our healer-druid and and leader-rouge were left behind and we're with a strange bard-paladin-monk-think who's class we don't know... yippeah

o.o that is the strangest game I have ever heard of, it sounds kinda neat but at the same time, I wouldn't have trusted the other PC