Recent content by Blue Sky

Of course not. Then it'd be a cast iron flying pan.

I'm going to go a different route, and say that while using your animal companion so callously would be an evil action, it wouldn't necessarily be non-druidic. A "nature, red in tooth and claw" style druid, who views his animal companion as less a trusted friend and ally, and more of a minion...

If you're a student, or know a student, you can get it for $30, until January 3rd.

I was taken by the idea that Gabe from Penny Arcade had of making each game have a "hook", and tonight I'm trying one out. My players are all Swordsmen in a 7th Sea game, trying to take a Ussuran (Russian) mob boss in a fantasy version of Venice. They're almost through with him, so tonight I'm...

This seems less like "No Fan Content!" and more like "We're not allowed to say 'Who cares what you post on your webpage?' Nope, definately not allowed to say 'Do what you want.'"

Heh, forgot about this thread for a few days... Anyway, no, it never got resolved. I basically felt that if they were going to give me the run around for a demo, I didn't want to try their game. WoW, I only had a couple of issues that required customer service, and they were pretty helpful...

Do you exclusively go for new games, or do you like to wait a bit after it's out before buying? Gamestop stores have a deal where if you buy a used console game, you can bring it back within a week to apply full credit to another used game, no questions asked. I'm okay with only playing a game...

Heh. I think the only thing WOW owes EQ is a list of how not to do things. My pithy customer service example: At one point, I was trying all the free mmo trials I could find. I tried CoH and DDO, both with no problems. I tried to download the EQ trial, and it failed to install. I deleted...

Do you have a plan for the campaign already? If so, let them sack the food stores of the invading army like they want, then find something that indicates that the bad guys you were already using are backing the invasion. (a note, one of the big bad's lieutenants, etc.)

First, what do you're players want? Some want to have the opportunity to take out high level guys with ingenuity, with the understood risk of absolute buttkicking being handed to them, while others prefer the game to be in a certain range of "fair" encounters. Have you asked them how they...

Fair enough, I apologize.

Huh. I find it funny that the "innocent sharer" not just shares pdf's with friends, but also a screen name. A guy with the exact same screen name runs Chaos Wasteland, a bittorrent tracker that offers hundreds of pdfs from D&D, Shadowrun, and WoD, amongst others. But that's just a...

Once and a while, I'll fudge the dice as a player. Higher and lower, for the record. In a 7th Sea game, I had a rivalry going on with another player, who would roll a few points higher than me. Occasionally, if I got a poor roll when he got a good one, or vice versa, I'd change mine to a few...

In general I like to tie motivations into whatever the players have done before, so it strings all the adventures together. My first thought would be that this person profitted from the attacks from the goblins in some way, and is now upset that the characters interrupted his fun/money/etc...

I've played a psychic for a very short, combat focused game, and ended up doing a vast majority of the damage, while being pretty much unkillable. Use Claws of the Beast to start with, and add Claws of the Vampire when you get high enough level. Expansion (psionic power) and Improved Natural...