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I'm in on Girl Genius, but it's not stated that pledging for the hardcover also gets you the PDF, which is usually the case and with these crowdfunding campaigns and usually clearly stated. I'm annoyed at Rex Draconis, because I'm sure they mean "Dragon King" or "King of Dragons" but Rex...

I'm actually kind of annoyed because the name Dark Matter is already associated with a science fiction RPG I happen to like. But I understand. The old Alternity Dark*Matter has been out of print for 20 years. How long did I want them to hold the name?

The Evil Overlord list is about all the tropes that lead to Evil's downfall. But the hero's version of the list mentions all kinds of tropes that heroes actually get away with, and which attracts us to them all the more. There are things that heroes do in stories that are not part of their charm...

I've never known any players who are actually superstitious about dice, but most I have known engage in a mockery of probability manipulation. When I set my dice down, I put them all at their highest value. It's kind of satisfying, but it doesn't make them roll high. I joke about die rolls being...

Aces & Eights is also coming out with a new edition. I went in for the kickstarter for that as well as the new Alternity.

Well, thanks everyone. I should have asked before I gave myself a headache poring over my books looking for invisible clues.

I was trying out the demo of Hero Labs with the 5e rules. I tried making a Human Variant. It lets me select attributes to add +1 to and a skill proficiency. But when I try to select feats, the only option is Grappler. It's not an issue of pre-requisites, since under that system I don't have any...

The system was fascinating, but what I really liked was the Star*Drive setting. I'd be a lot more excited to hear there will be more Star*Drive materials coming out.

Flintlock pistols were in fact carried loaded, needing only action on the hammer with the thumb to make them ready to fire. You didn't reload them in the middle of battle, you dropped them as soon as they were discharged, hoping you'd live to pick them up later, and draw another from your 'brace...

Pathguy does it again. Hot damn.

Oh, yeah. That's the point. Years ago, I did a chargen for d20 Future, and then later during the public playtest of Pathfinder I put out a chargen for that called sCoreGen. That latter project became very difficult to support due to time constraints and particularly after the glut of new feats...

I'm getting pretty close with my own excel sheet. I've been fiddling with Wiki-based output lately, but except for having to create the printable character sheet itself, I'm at the stage of entering the data for the classes starting with F and beyond. After that it's bug hunting.

The barbarian can legally get up to 24 in Str and Con, so you might want to let stats get at least that high.

Wow. So far the Bard (of Lore) is only being beaten out by GMing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold I don't know if there was some connection hinted at in D&D materials, but the myths of such creatures as Kobolds, Gnomes, Goblins, Bogarts, Dwarves and various such terms may be of common origins, with no real way to distinguish them as a bunch of discrete...

In my campaign setting, Gnomes are tinkers and there are hints that there is some mysterious connection between them and other races with certain technical prowesses -- Goblins as civil engineers, Kobolds as trap-makers, and the arch-enemies of the Gnomes, Gremlins with mysterious powers to...

Yeah, I thought it was weird how they felt the need to specify that Two Weapon Fighting was for melee weapons and then suddenly throw in the deal with thrown weapons. It made me think that excluding hand crossbows was what they had in mind in particular. Or, pistols. I seem to recall reading...

Yeah, I generally think the big advantage of prepared modules is this shared experience they create. You talk to old gamers, you hear fascinating stories about what happened while they were running through the Keep on the Borderlands, or Pharaoh, or the Salt Marsh Trilogy. And I found the...

The players don't have to already know the target numbers. The range of likely target numbers is pretty well constrained by game design. At 1st level you know you're not going to be asked to roll a any checks with DCs less than 10, and few enough beyond 15. If an NPC is described to you as...

So, your complaint is that you have no way of knowing whether you're wasting your inspiration if you insist on ignoring the numbers right in front of you? That's not metagaming, it's just gaming. You make rational decisions based on numbers available to you. That you the player are making...