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The purpose of a "tabletop" RPG is to have fun. In a meta-sense, there is no way to win nor to lose, because whether you kill the bad guy, rescue the damsel in distress, and save the world or fall for the old "Sphere of Annihilation in the statue's mouth" gag, the experience playing the game was the point for you, the player, even if your character had a more fixed and pointed goal.

There are a few ways in which the journey generates fun: Overcoming challenges and engaging in a world are ones the DM has to watch out for

I tailor encounters to be challenging for the party -- after all, it's not much of a challenge to steamroll or be steamrolled. If the party doesn't have a lot of combat punch, they'll be fighting weaker encounters. The encounters were always weaker. The opposite is also true. If you build your characters to tear through disgustingly powerful encounters, disgustingly powerful encounters will find you. Because most people like to feel useful, I generally frown on one player being "the powergamer" and expect that most people at the table should go in with a general idea of balancing their characters against each other. If you pick a low tier class, optimize more. If you pick a normally stronger class, play around with fluff choices. Most characters in D&D 3rd can play well at a table with most others, so finding the way in which they do is mission-critical. otherwise you've got an average dragged up (or down) on the back of one character, hurting the experience of the rest.

Engaging in the world comes from a number of sources. Me, the DM, building a solid and coherant world is one of them. Treating it as a world, not a kludge of mechanics with bizarre implications, is another bit. Don't expect to pull of a peasant rail gun in one of my games, for instance. Most of this is not hard-and-fast rules, it's a general guideline of "Think about what this means in character before trying to do it." If you have a bizarre concept, want to multiclass, etc. I 'd like to hear how this makes sense. There is one hard and fast rule that I feel belongs in this category and also helps curb a lot of the degeneracy that happens in 3.x: Do not start a prestige class you do not intend to finish. That is all.

Overall, I'm pretty lax about working with improvised actions. You tell me what you want to try to do (and possibly why if there's a higher purpose to it) and I'll tell you what to roll if it's even remotely possible. I prefer to keep a game flowing than to look up exact interpretations of the rules.

These are the houserules (in general) under which I've operated for a long time. D&D 3.1415926535... and so on
CLASSES: Most classes follow 3.5 rules (as the ones it matters most for -- bards and rangers -- got big and needed boosts)
SPELLS: Most spells represented in both editions follow their 3.0 incarnations with the exception of Gate (3.5) and Haste (3.5 at 3rd level, "classic" extra action haste at 5th level spell)
DAMAGE REDUCTION: Hybrid. Material DR's are not bypassed by +X (as in 3.5), but the variety of DR/+N is preserved rather than having "magic" or "epic" only. Alignment DRs, however, are removed (the creatures may still have DR) because they caused wonky interactions. The Align Weapon spell is therefore useless and nonexistent.