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I mean this is exactly what I mean when I say I don't like playing in asian-styled settings ran by palefaces. I understand the concept of shame vs guilt cultures and was already aware of it, I am just tired of it having it being a reason to include one of these types of houserules in the game...

The term "Oriental Adventures" sounds dumb to me, I've always disliked the title. Honestly I refuse to play in any "asian-styled campaigns" simply for the fact that it breeds stereotypes and limits roleplaying potential. Every time there's an opening for an asian-style campaign at my local...

My favorite race to play is the half-elf. I identify with their flavor out of all the races, as it's something I can identify with in real life. Obviously not with elves (I'm not insane, I swear), but I'm a mixed person in real life (asian and white). I found myself being seen as an outsider...

Favorites -Advantage/Disadvantage. It's pretty awesome and gets rid of a good deal of fiddly bits that made 4e combat a pain in the butt to do (I even replaced the 1/2 cover and 3/4 cover with disadvantage instead of modifiers) -All the classes are awesome. -Sorcerers in particular are amazing...

Right now, 4e is my favorite version of D&D. I feel that with some fairly simply houserules it is perfect for encouraging roleplaying for my group, while 3.5 seems to have too many fiddly bits and limits that made roleplaying a bit harder for how our group plays.I picked up the 5th edition PHB...

In terms of needing to make or do something dangerous for magic items, does that mean that the math doesn't necessitate magic items for balance in 5th edition/Next?

I'm not sure why, but I'm very partial towards having a fighter or ranger that uses a quarterstaff as their main weapon. From what I've seen (people I've played with), I have never seen anyone who uses a quarterstaff other than a magic character. Also, paladins obviously use tridents as their...

I'm hoping that the PHB is around the same size as the AD&D reprint PHB and possibly available in softcover. Small, concise, and hopefully cheap. The DMG should be a bit thicker (probably around the size of the 4e DMG and containing all the non-class modules), and the Monster Manual can be as...

I almost said yes, but I've got to give it up for Savage Worlds overall. If I were to only see it from a player's perspective rather than one of a GM, I've got to give it to D&D then.

My regular group is three black guys, two black girls, and me (filipino mestizo). According to what I've been told, there isn't really a precedent that any of them felt that made them feel like outsiders in the hobby-- although one of the girls felt that being a woman was a barrier. More often...

I really dislike skills, so the backgrounds replacing it is gold for me. I prefer that much more, and would definitely port that over given the chance to run a 3.5/PF game. I would also steal the escalation dice and definitely the rules for basing (I dislike combat grids). Oh, and One Unique...

My gaming hasn't exactly been great for the past couple of years. I ran a Savage Worlds game based on Legend of Korra as the gamemaster. I consider it to be my most successfully ran game. After that, it was all downhill. I ran a game of Rippers in Savage Worlds. It was going good, but now that...

I plan to never use a battlemat, but use a few minis. I am going to import the basing rules from 13th Age in order to play with Next, unless they include a basing module for Next in itself.

I know it sounds really dumb, but I'm going to get it either way. I have always liked Dungeons and Dragons itself from the first time I played it to now-- 3.5, 4e, doesn't matter. I'm going to buy it and play it; if I don't like it, I'll simply shelf it. I've got books for 10+ different systems...

I ran a regular game for the D&D Next Playtest using the august(?) rules, then switched to the september packet when it came out. We ran it with one or two sessions a week until some players had to permanently drop out, which led to the dissolution of the group pretty much. They enjoyed it a lot...

Last thing I bought was the 13th Age book Before that, five sets of Fudge/Fate dice Furthest back was a new Savage Worlds Deluxe Ed I'm still trying to find my favorite game system, so I've been jumping around between systems and trying to play as many as I can.

When I first heard about these two games, I was extremely excited for Numenera. 13th Age just looked like another rehash of D&D and I wanted something with a new flavor. After reading the two systems, I pretty much dropped Numenera completely and took up 13th Age as my next game. I'm about to...

I've had the same feelings about how to implement werewolves, because one of my players wants to play a werewolf. I really hope that they release something along those lines, but different than just the Circle of Moon. My player actually decided against becoming a druid to be his werewolf...

I definitely agree with the idea that the default casting form should be vancian (or whatever is in the last playtest, since some people are concerned that it isn't real vancian), with alternate spellcasting types being outside of player hands at first (like in the DMG or a splatbook). It...

I'm getting tired of Forgotten Realms. I would prefer the default setting be Points of Light like 4th edition, just leaving the vast majority up to the DM. Even if Forgotten Realms is the default, I'm never going to use it. I'd be interested in seeing a few titles again: Eberron Dark Sun/Dragon...