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I play Shadowrun (4th edition) and Deadlands (original-revised, not Savage Worlds) off and on, but more than anything else I would like to be in a good, deep, long-term Dark Heresy game. I'm not actually in any D&D groups right now, and oddly enough, I'm okay with that. 4e broke my D&D spirit -...

Something with on-the-fly flexibility. Power points are good, skills could be viable, prepared slots are madness.

I'm assuming sword & planet falls under the "science fiction" option in the poll? Because that's what I want more of. Pathfinder has the infrastructure to establish some John Carter of Mars spinoff settings, and by god, that would be fantastic. Psionics would be good, especially if you can...

WOTC isn't going to start supporting campaign settings long-term, or at least, not in the way that they did in 3e (or in the way that TSR did, for that matter.) Campaign settings are awesome if you like the settings that are being supported, but if a setting that is being supported is one you...

This would be a perfectly reasonable reaction if this player decided to put a 14 in intelligence knowing full well what the mechanical implications of that would be. By all accounts, he does not. If his playstyle was to play with a 14 int, that's fine, and nobody should have a problem with...

If the idea that it's important for people who are playing a game to enjoy playing that game is onetruewayism...

Any standard except the conceptual framework of expectations for stats in 4e. No, but it will make his character miss in combat. A lot. Which isn't satisfying at all. And he may find the game more frustrating than fun. And that's Bad. This isn't hypothetical; I've seen it happen. A friend...

I'm kind of delighted to see such aggressively inconclusive results. I had to select "DM as adversary" because "module writer as adversary" wasn't available. A lot of the most old-school modules I'm familiar with (and I'm chiefly thinking here of Tomb of Horrors, Maure Castle, and Ravenloft)...

I'm suprised how much of Appendix N isn't on the poll. No Lord Dunsany? No Lovecraft? My answers, including omitted Appendix N authors: I've read Lieber, Howard, Tolken, Rowlings, Jordan, Mieville, Pratchett, Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, and probably some Derlith. I also have Carter, de Camp...

I try to keep things informal where houserules are concerned. I don't ban things so much as I... very strongly recommend against certain things, should a player eye them. (Battlerager Vigor is my big one.) I have a very silly stat system - 21 point buy, as per normal point buy rules... except...

My expectations are for the GM to love the setting he's running his game in. I don't want to people to run Eberron games because I want to play in Eberron games; I want people to run Eberron games because I want them to love it as much as I do. It was a contributing factor, but probably the...

If you look at the Eberron books, you may notice something interesting - there's a lot of "Some people say" and "There are theories" and the like. Eberron is a setting that loves to put "maybe" and "usually" qualifiers on information about the setting, and I think it's much easier to use because...

I'd allow it in my game, just because it's an awesome idea.

The staples in our group have always been "Murderkill Hacknslash", "Kilafuk Soulshitter", and anything that would fit in with Flint Ironstag and Rip Steakface.

Well, the one-square-cubes approach doesn't contradict any rules, because there aren't any rules on this right now; it seems to me to be the simplest solution, but if you want to try and ad-hoc your own thing, go to town. There's no height data on monsters, though, so, uh... good luck with that...

All movement is expressed in units of squares; thus, altitude is measured in squares. Movement is never taken in fractions of a square. Thus, all creatures are always in vertical strata of one-square (i.e. 5') increments. (Incidentally, the ability of creatures to ascend or descend diagonally...

I strongly reccommend that you do not run "Keep on the Shadowfell"; it's overpriced, uncompelling, unoriginal, gives PCs equipment at dramatically below the DMG standard rates, and the difficulty is frequently ludicrous. (To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever defeated the goblin barbarian...

A square is 5' as per the "Visualizing the Action" sidebar on page 266 of the PHB. Strictly speaking, it's actually more of a 5' cube, and the discrepancy between character height and square height is simply a result of the abstraction that's required in standardizing a three-dimensional grid...

I am delighted about this, because it's precedent towards incarnum. PHB4: Incarnum Power? :D (Also, going to have to resist making a Persona-themed character with this... THOU ART I AND I ART THOU!)

No, I think that covers it pretty clearly. It's good to know and think about, but I don't know that there's much to discuss.