Recent content by Wyrmshadows

IMO Clark is finally being honest. It isn't that he was lying before, its that he wanted so bad to like 4e, wanted so bad to be part of the new edition of D&D that he lost all objectivity early on. IMO he was a bit of a fanboi with the "rah rah 4e" stuff. His loyalty to the D&D brand is what...

Can't power creep be diminished or ameliorated altogether by the DM being careful regarding which splatbooks he or she allows? I found that this policy along with, at least in 3.5e, judicious restrictions regarding which PrCs are allowed in the world makes all the difference. It also helps if...

Gen-uh-si (like genocide) What's really odd is that there are so few pronunciation guides in regards to how to pronounce odd or unfamiliar sounding words in D&D. Wyrmshadow

LOL :D This is amusing but far, far from a regular type of problem. In over two decades of DMing I have only had a handful of experiences like this. Yeah, its annoying. IME however this is a player who is really, really into exploring the world and they take a real interest in what's going on...

Well I stand corrected. According to the responses here, I guess Greyhawk fans would like this idea. As a disclaimer I have to say that I don't like what they did to FR for 4e. It has the same basic map (broadly speaking) and even has some ideas that are good. Unfortunately, the setting will...

Without the Greyhawk lore, what the heck is Greyhawk anyway? A lot of meaningless names on an old map tied to the bygone days of D&D IMO. If so many things are just retconned away into non-existance then all you really have is a plan to grab players with a familiar IP that bears little to...

I just don't see this as a problem. My players play, in character, and make their PCs act as if they were real individuals. Your PC's loyalty to his cohort is admirable and IMO in accordance with what a thinking, feeling individual, motivated like an actual human being, might do. This is...

Wow, depth of setting is dreadful. I remember how rich settings were in 2e. No one put a gun to your head to buy setting books, but at least the material was there if you wanted it. 3e had some well supported settings (FR, Midnight, Scarred Lands, etc.) with a great deal of richness. IMO 3e, at...

Vicerally I don't like retcons, but heck you changed editions with this campaign and with that change has come sweeping changes to everything from magic to cosmology to elves so what's one more retcon? Let him turn into a drgonborn and his pheonix into a dragon...poof....done. I didn't change...

C'mon people.... Other folks have got to have opinions on what is fun and what is unfun for them. This could be interesting. I don't want my thread to die. :.-( Wyrmshadows

I added Tony DiTerlizzi to my list of unfun....how you like that? :cool: Wyrmshadows

LOL If he's better than Erol bring him on. ;) Honestly, I just don't get it. I liked it when I was a kid for the strangeness of it. Now, I just find his work strange but not in a good way. Of the Old School Crew, I don't like Jeff Easley and my enjoyment of Caldwell is based entirely on...

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Hello, Throughout the discussion between 3.5e and 4e fans there has been this issue of fun, unfun and wrongbadfun. According to the design philosophy of 4e the designers wanted to remove elements that were unfun as one of the design goals. Allow me to ask what exactly is fun in the context...

I completely understand. I'm 37yrs old now so I have some modicum of control over my testosterone based reactions. When I was a teenager I could probably put up with just about anything as long as it had a pair of breasts attached to it. Nowadays I have a 10yr old son and my gaming time is...