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Each roll of d20 still only has a 1 in 20 chance of occurring. While the chance of that time being when you roll 10 1's in a row is 1 in 64 million the chance of that happening to you depends more on how many d20 you've rolled in your RPG playing life. If you've rolled but 2000 d20's in your...

The new character will be chained to the wall in the room all those Hobgoblins just came from, the last survivor of a group that didn't' have a PC with a sleep spell memorized.

It's all basic psychology. Some players see the DM as in control of the entire campaign and the player is in control of a PC as spelled out on the character sheet. Taking something off the character sheet is taking away some of the players control.

Divide the hp by 10. Sure there will be more dying.

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Except for lions and tigers and bears (oh my).

maybe among halflings.

The promisses of the Digitial Iniitative have yet to be fully delivered, correct? So somewhere someone did not fully think things through. Or they considered the savings in print costs (which were those of Paizo for years not WOtC) were worth losing a bunch of readers that they technically...

Really? When was the last time a PC broke a leg wherein the DM wasn't applying any houserules? Got an infection that wasn't because of monster special ability? Cared about a specific wound for more then a fight which (again) was not the result of a monsters special ability? Getting gut stabbed...

An occupant of a D&D world would be surprised that in a Papers and Paycheks world a wound inflicted from virtually any source has the potential to be debilitating and infected. The very notion of enduring injuries would baffle them. When was the last time a D&D world occupant had to worry...

I used to buy 9 or more Dragons a year and a couple of Dungeons a year, now I spend nothing on them. Dragon was readable by normal humans for years, sure it'd be packed with weird stuff, it's stuff they will not be exposed to now. I saw Dragon turn up in my local supermarket for a while. In...

A neophyte who isn't looking for Dragon is not going to stumble across it on newsstand somewhere or shoved in a rack at a comic store, it's gone. Are they even going to find it online ? I've seen darned little advertising for it. I've seen dozens of periodicals go online and disappear within a...

Car Wars was a pretty solid and easy to play game despite the seeming complexity. It supported one-shot and campaign style play with a little bit-o-roleplaying thrown in.

I suspect they are doing okay, they publish materials for over a dozen game lines. Support them all with an in-house periodical (or two). 10 releases this month, almost 3 dozen scheduled for the next couple of months. Adventures in Hyboria is coming out next month, one of about 30 products for...

There aren't two magazines there are zero magazines as there is no Dragon Magazine or Dungeon Magazine, they are now webpages. Web-zines just aren't a magazine.

The fireball has certainly gotten wimpier over the years (relative to PC/NPC hitpoints). While expanding fireballs are sorta fun the tac-nuke nature of 33,000 square foot fireballs is just a little too much. Of course if they still did that in 4th edition they'd only really be good for...

I want to kill them all and sew the best parts together and animate my gorgeous homebrew Frankenstein.

Well considering in real life I'm not really into ale and whores and haven't slung my weapons over my shoulder to go fight the forces of evil in the remote areas of the world; I'd say I usually don't play characters anything like myself.

there are 2 reason for number bloat in D&D over the years: Increase in Granularity and Bigger Numbers are cooler. Granularity- once upon a time the combat system was 2d6 with and "optional" d20 roll combat system. A +1 was a big deal when rolling 2d6, +3 was an immense advantage. Ability scores...

I was a gamer when I bought my first Avalon Hill wargame, I was hooked then. Of course I can't recall when that was, any time from 7 to 9 years of age and that was a long long time ago when people wore Brady Bunch clothes.