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Instead of Gather Information or Streetwise for a skill why not Reconnassaince? Rogues would be better at it within an urban environment while a ranger would be better in a wilderness setting. Recon could have numberous uses while the others are more narrow in focus.

In 1e AD&D fighters could attack X number of times equal to their level against opponents of less than 1HD. In the D&D Cyclopedia fighters had the smash attack option. In 3e D&D it was cleave for fighters and 4e allows a fighter to cleave at-will. An agruement I've heard before is that fighters...

Upgrade, fixed is my opinion. Use a feat, "improve ability" increases one ability score one point. Usable at "X" level. Cannot stack with the same ability but can use a feat for each ability score, so that's six feats total.

The reasons for why the companies receive the rankings they do vary. We can debate until the next age what causes a company's decline or rise. From my perspective this is what I would like to see, however, it has no bearing on sales of products or a company's bottom line: -When there's a new...

The difference between race and species is correct. Although you can have hybrids from the species. A cross between a donkey and a horse produces a mule. A tiger and lion hybrid is a tigon. Both examples are sterile so there's no offspring for such creatures. There are cross species...

The DM from my first gaming group hated dwarves with a passion. When he started playing D&D his first character was a lawful good dwarf which died on the first encounter. Ever since he would play elves and if a dwarf died he would enjoy it. BTW, he would usually detest lawful good characters...

Delericho has made an excellent example! If I may add my 2 pfennigs worth, how about the neighboring nation having a faction intrigue in another nation's affairs? This could be done in such a way as the NN's king and most of his supporters are unaware of what is going on across the border...

This year was the 3rd time I've attended Gencon and the first time for my wife. I've gamed since 1981 but I've been on a gaming hiatus the last 4 years. This is due to my wife's wishes. Taking her to Gencon this year I hoped to expose her to how gamers represent a cross section of society...

I am currently in my 3rd enlistment in the military spreading my service over a 24 year period. During my 2 previous enlistments I have observed or played in several games. From what I can remember no one either encouraged or discouraged any of us from playing. The groups I became involved...

An adventure setting that I still enjoy are the 2 villages in the Lendore series, Restenford and Garrotten. For small villages they add a lot of detail for the npcs but leave some areas undefined. What's interesting is there have been 2 sequels to the L1 module basing the adventures themselves...