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I was cleaning out my rpg books in storage to sell a bunch of 3e, and ended up reading 4e material. I forgot how many outstanding products came out in the last 1/3 of the run! I consider 4e pretty well done overall, but * monster vault, monster vault nentir, and dark sun creature catalog --...

Can anyone fill me in on the 20th Anniversary Mage: The Ascension (and the other lines)? I haven't played WoD since the original in the 90s and missed the NWoD entirely. Old Mage was by far my favorite. What the deal? Are these straight reprintings? Are they revisions to the rules? The...

Just got 13th Age. Took a quick read but haven't played yet. Overall looks pretty awesome with lots of nice additions. As usual, from just I read I can't get a good feel for how some things will pan out in actually play. For those of you with play experience, I had a few questions: 1)...

I’ve had the One Ring for a while but picked up Tales from the Wilderland and might actually get to play some soon. I love what the system had done for emulating the genre, in particular: * Dividing things into adventuring phase and fellowship phase to mark the passage of time * Creating...

I just got FATE Core and it is awesome! I was surprised, however, to not see a version of Diaspora's Social Combat in Core? Maybe I missed it as I have just done a skim so far. IMO, Disaspora's Social Combat is one of the most innovative structures introduced to rpgs in a long time. For...

Hi, I recently moved to San Francisco and would love to join a friendly group in the city or wider Bay Area. I am mid 30s with most of my gaming experience in D&D Basic/1e/2e, Marvel FASERIP, Star Frontiers, original Whitewolf, Rifts, and Call of Cthulhu in the 90s. I have kept up with...

Who’s ready to abandon XP for defeating monsters as the XP standard in Next? I hate XP for monsters and XP for treasure is a little better but not by much. I’d like D&D next to outline a number of options for XP including “whenever the DM feels appropriate to the campaign” and have a default...

First, I want to want to acknowledge the great work that has gone into Zeitgeist. So far, it is an amazing set of adventures with all the elements lacking in many other published adventures -- fantastic character hooks, npcs, mix of situations (social roleplaying, combat, mystery, etc.), fantasy...

Hi, I purchased Strands of FATE a while ago which was my first exposure to FATE. I love the concepts of aspects and especially invoking for effect, but just by reading the rules can't really get a good feel for how it works at the table. Could someone point me to some good examples of real...

Now that WOTC has released most of the old LFR adventures to the general public Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible Are any of these worth playing as part of a regular campaign? What were your favorites?

Given the buzz over Paizo's new adventure path that is reported to include some rules on ruling a kingdom, I dug out my old Birthright stuff. In the 90s I used the setting for a few normal adventures and liked it, but never really used the regent / domain system. For those of you that really...

Given the other controllers that now exist (and the hybrid rules), I’ve been thinking about the Wizard’s class features. I think Wizards are certainly playable as is, but most of their shtick seems to come from their dailies. I’d like to make their class abilities more differentiated without...

This is an area that I don’t think has gotten enough attention, even with the DMG2. A lot of the published skill challenges still seem to have problematic rewards and penalties. For instance, I see a lot of reliance on “fail and you enter combat” with the combat being a level appropriate...

Just got the DMG2, and was reading over the skill challenge section. Personally, I think skill challenges can be fantastic if handled well, and I think the DMG2 has great advice on getting more from this often demonized 4e mechanic. I like Stalker’s Obsidian system better than the official...

I did a once through of Arcane Power, and saw the cool new options for the Bard that wants to multiclass: * Combat Virtuoso (feat that lets you use Cha as attack stat for multi class powers) * Multiclass mastery (feat) * some good new base multiclass feats * lots of other arcane class feats...

I just got my copy of Arcane Power today, so I’d thought I’d throw in my 2 cents from a quick read: Stuff I love: *Tomes and the during encounter switching out of spells (I thought this should have been a part of all Wizards from the beginning) * New warlock pact * Sorcerer spell sources...

I just got into Star Wars RPG with SAGA, and wondered if there are any must have d6 books that I should pick up for the fluff/background/cool ideas?

Just found some old Marvel Super Heroes and Star Frontiers books. Looking at them with a today lens, I thought "These systems are still pretty cool, easy to run, and have some neat elements not popular today (e.g., different levels of success for a precentile die roll)" So, was curious about...

First off, I am a huge fan of the skill challenge concept despite the problems that are occuring as this concept gets further refined. Some of the problems are pretty complicated (e.g., setting the right DCs), and some are a matter of play style (e.g., do you annouce a skill challenge, do you...

With Martial Power's Beast Ranger class feature, you lose out on 2 weapon or archery features. Now, given that there are still a lot of good 2-weapon powers, it is likely that a Beast Ranger will still fight with 2 weapons. How does a power like Dire Wolverine Stike work when wielding a long...