Recent content by Harr

Ha. This. A thousand times this. I'm not gonna sit and judge anybody in particular, but let me just say that guys who think that "gaming with girls" is some kind of achievement, or something to be held as a "point of pride" for themselves, something to be sought after and argued for, are in and...

I would let it play out for a while and see if the DM is actually pulling it off and making a fun game in the end. The whole idea behind rejecting 'railroading' by the DM is that it sucks out any semblance of challenge or achievement from the game. But you don't want to get SO defensive about...

Depends... your parenthesis aside, if by 'complete' we're talking about a relatively complete suite of DM-helper tools that are useful and help speed up play in a variety of ways, such as campaign managers, monster builders, loot calculators, etc, then yeah, reasonably confident that it will...

Yep. I really don't see what the huge deal is here... what the guy is saying is simply "system matters", and anyone who follows RPGs on the net knows that that particular little tidbit already has years of vigorous debate behind it. Let's just hope that the 'old-school' movement can do a (much)...

From what I've seen the majority of that stuff does get corrected in the end, but I have serious doubts that any of it is coming from the 'errata' forums as opposed to simple in-house editing and double-checking. It strikes me that those 'errata' forums were created not really as a place where...

... or maybe he's fully aware of all that, and said the word "power" anyway cause he likes it better, assuming (correctly) that 99.9% of all who read it would understand his intent.

It's been five days since I purchased MM2, and I gotta say... not really. I mean yeah, it's ok for what I paid, but certainly nothing that's gonna make someone who's already boycotting change their mind about doing so.

Um, sorry, but this post made me curious, so I just tried it two seconds ago and found it to be patently false. A simple google search of the name of the application with the word 'download' or the word 'torrent' added took me directly to several active pages where the torrent was cheerfully...

What I find vexing is the amount of people here that are completely unconcerned with playing the game, how to get better at playing the game, but fascinated with running circles around academic and rhetorical theories about the validity of opinions and stances. For example? I post in a thread...

Wow, hey, that's great there guy. So you DO roleplay. And you DO understand the difference between when I say "We don't roleplay" and when I say "But we do enjoy solving puzzles and challenges". You do understand perfectly and you have understood it from the beginning, as you just beautifully...

Hm, just because you got my wheels turning on the topic of long combats and cutting them short... I mentioned making combats about something OTHER than just killing the monsters. But maybe you're thinking 'how'. Ok. Have you watched the movie "The Gamers"? If you haven't, then do :) Watching...

Yep, the word is ambiguous. Nice one. However, note the subsequent clarification which you didn't quote for some reason. Do your players make a "background" for their characters? Do they care what place in the world their character "comes from"? Is the character's race taken as anything more...

This is a great thread I feel, because it genuinely addresses real problems that you have in-game. I'll try to answer you as fully as I can. Level 6 going on 7 currently. in our former campaign we got to level 11. 4-5 hours a session. Almost without exception 3 per session. I design the...

Yep. For all the talk from designers about cool and dynamic locations, and making the terrain participate in the fight, and hazards and resources and traps and magical terrain etc etc etc the whole of (non-PC) 4e is remarkably fixated on churning out the monsters and almost ignoring everything...

I've just been told that the April update (ie the update that carries the Arcane Power content) of the DDI Character Builder has appeared on torrent sites as of today. Which is what... 10 days after it became available for subscribers (or at least 10 days after my CB was able to update itself)...