Recent content by Teneb

@toucanbuzz - this is a great reminder as well that not every combat needs to have a lethal ending or a straightforward goal. I've successfully used some of these, and they definitely work well to spice things up. It's a fair point, and some of that may come down to me not necessarily...

It's not a matter of "can't", it's that my 10th level party trivializing things like that (ready access to scouting via familiars for example, nearly everyone has a mechanism of getting up that cliff quickly, etc.). However, your idea of "unseen enemy attacks" sounds like a great confounder to...

I GM a group of six level 10 characters, and our combats are pretty dull. Enemies show up, characters close, and then everyone just sits there trading blows. I've tried adding in some environmental factors, interesting scatter terrain, varieties of monsters, etc., but things almost always...

Wonderful, thank you for taking the time to make such an indepth response!

Are the Shadowrun books worth picking up? I'm a D&D 5E player who's interested in getting a little more sci-fi in my diet, and the price certainly seems right.

I'm running my group through a Bioshock-inspired adventure at the moment. Well, it's a Bioshock-inspired Dark Heresy game converted to 4e D&D (gives me a headache too). Anyway, I'm looking for ideas of interesting tactical encounters, for example, fighting in knee-high water which slows...

Thanks to both of you. I'd already read through the info on Rackham's site - I think it's really nice they have the basic rules up for free. Seems like a nice, simple and streamlined system that still allows for tactical variety.

I enjoy the world of WH40k but I'm not good/too slow at painting minis, plus GW prices are a little higher than I'd like. I saw at FFG's website today that they have a sale on for Rackham's AT-43 wargame which uses pre-painted plastic figs, which seems ideal for me. Anyone have experience with...

I thought the episode was pretty good. I'm still not sure where they're headed as far as wrapping things up, but I'm always glad to see more of dr. Keller. And yeah, I think it's a foregone conclusion she and McKay "got it on".

I intrepreted the Walter seeing Walter bit as perhaps a harbinger or reminder that he's just barely this side of sane. More to come methinks. I believe the equation is a sonic frequency that allows someone to move through solid objects; the safe was vibrated at the correct frequency such that...

He's a known associate of the BBEG, and they're trying to get him to get to his boss. I like the idea of others joining in; he's actually staying at a "house of ill repute" - I could see some of the gals joining the fray to protect their client. Good idea!

My 3 players are going to corner a local thug at the inn he's staying at. I'm a bit at a loss on how to make this battle interesting/exciting. The players are 1st level, so the rogue could go up to 5th potentially. This isn't meant to be a final battle, but I'd like it to be more than a speed...

Nope, it just happens to have Amanda Tapping (Col. Carter on Stargate) in it. The two are not related. Apparently she and some others did some webisodes as proof of concept and it was picked up by SciFi for a show. I don't think you need to see the webisodes to understand what's going on (I...

Am I the only one who's annoyed by the whole Tiffy/Mack storyline? Not the storyline itself I guess, but the fact that it's taking forever to resolve. I enjoyed last night's episode. We obviously knew our team would come through, but they did a good job keeping the tension up until the end.

Amen there. It's funny, because Fringe is the other show I was comparing this to as well; however I find I like Fringe a lot better. It strikes me as more atmospheric. I agree that it was too long, I may have liked it more if it was an hour. I had a lot of trouble keeping focused on the...