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It doesn't have OD&D on there. I played it just a couple weeks ago. Fail.

3:16 Carnage Among the Stars is pretty great. You can write a campaign in an afternoon. It's military SF ala Starship Troopers. There's a surprising amount you can do with it, given that it's an indie game (many of which use the mechanics to funnel you into a particular play style). Though...

Itself a takeoff of the Anabasis of Xenophon.

Even though I'm the one who started complaining about it, I think that's a bit harsh. I think the real gem is the SR system, which if you don't do much with it would make the game dull as heck. I dunno. Either it's missing something or I am. A lot of people dig it but I've gotten flak at a T&T...

17 of 22. That's with one kinda foolish smurf-up. And I got the spetum backwards with the other one. Duh. Polearms were never my subject. But I did well enough to be accused of cheating!

I want to like Tunnels and Trolls. It has a lot going for it: it's old as the hills, it hasn't changed much (I'm told) over time, it's grounded in the dungeoneering and exploration milieu that guys like me love so much. It's Old School. It has a really neat Save mechanic that manages to combine...

Man, combat in OD&D is fast. Really, really fast. I like it, because combat in D&D is inherently uninteresting to me, save the occasional twist (I've thrown in some cool stuff in my time). But the real fun is exploring the environment and the adventure plot and such. If I want an interesting...

Megadamage cowboy hats. And with the new rule that if you have any megadamage armor, the megadamage hit that overwhelms it only destroys the armor or something like that. So if you're wearing a Megadamage cowboy hat and boxers (that look like the Texas flag, obviously), and you get shot with...

Guys, what's with all the deception and secret meetings? As others have said, just say "Are you sure you hit? You rolled a 2." There's no point in avoiding a confrontation... he's already jacking your game. You might as well get in his face because he's already up in yours. Plus, you're also...

Such a version of the woodgrain or white box would be awesome. Especially if they threw in Chainmail.

The first rule of D&DXP is: you do not talk about D&DXP.

Why should they bother? That Vandal Hearts thing already looks cooler than Virtual D&D. Why not just play that? It should be painfully obvious to everyone right now that WOTC is not a software company. I wouldn't want plumbers designing my rocket ship, and I wouldn't want to put WOTC in charge...

WOTC cancelled what I wanted to buy from 4E (though I'll give the Heroes of Shadow a look) for 2011. Savage Worlds has really been re-catching my attention lately. The Fantasy Companion (also digest-sized like the Explorer's Edition) is awesome and it is looking like the Hellfrost setting from...

Here's my idea for a new collectible card system to sell to DMs everywhere: Misfortune Cards. Show those annoying players who's boss! A few sample "Interrupt" cards follow: Banana Peel (C): Move Action Interrupt. Target PC slips on a banana peel and falls prone into any adjacent hex. Target may...

Yeah, just because the errata should be free (as it is) doesn't mean that the errata should exist (in that volume) in the first place. Given that WOTC's books don't contain much else, it seems that they see their job to be writing rules. They should do that accurately if that's their thing. If...

The BESM thread has me wondering: what actually makes for an "anime" rpg. Anime is an... "overgenre" (?) of a variety of genres. We have Ghost in the Shell, Inuyasha, Kiki's Delivery Service, Dirty Pair, Grave of the Fireflies... this stuff is all over the place. What unites them are their...

Hey now. Babies are the treasure you collect for successfully completing your adventure.

Well at least subscribers will be able to get access to the content from Heroes of Sword and Spell in 2013. "We're trying to deliver our products to our consumers in the manner which best matches their use of them. And we've found out that consumers don't use our products, so we're going to...

I say this as someone who vastly prefers 4E to 3.x/PF: WOTC seems to think that they're the only game in town, as it were... as if they have a captive audience and marketing ventures are all the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel (which actually may be true, inasmuch as I'm not sure that...

Oddly, it's actually called the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia. That's exactly what you're describing. However, there isn't a four hour combat mini game of Fantasy Advanced Squad Leader in it. But there's darn near everything else.