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Love the "coming out of the basement" phrase. Definitely going to use it. Also good for you on getting out. Personally at 53 years old, I don't see that I aam going to ever get up up those stairs. Been in the basement for 38 years and I might just be too old now. That being said, my wife...

I had been thinking that it was actually fairly hard to lose a character in 5th. Barring catastrophic damage you would have to fail three death saves (or two if you manage to sneak a 1 in there) which should give ample time for a party member to do something about your condition. Compare this...

For myself, as a GM, 4 or 5 is the ideal but I can usually handle 6 or 7 in any system. A lot depends on the types of players you have though. If all the players are very active then a smaller group is definitely better for them. If you have a few players whose style is that of the eternal...

This is not a case of censorship or liberalism running rampant. This is a case of a business listening to a customer complaint (admittedly a complaint that might have been better presented) and then following that complaint up with some research of their own and making a decision regarding how...

People can think this is okay because sometimes the minority is in the right. People can think this is okay because sometimes we have to do the right thing even if it is inconvenient. I am sure we are all aware of numerous instances throughout recent years where a small minority has spoken up...

Fair enough. However, spellchuckers don't get significantly better at melee weapon attacks, whereas melee types do. Also I was never a fan of the "I have cast my 1 magic missile and now I am going to go and hide behind the mule" type of thing. Regardless, as I said, your point is fair and...

For me it is case of if the players want it I figure I can find a way to make it work in the world we are playing in. That being said there are sometimes downsides to playing certain races. For example in the current campaign I am running (a home brew world) the world was once overrun by...

My game time has taken an upswing as the kids move out (YEAH!!!). I play twice a week for 3 to 4 hours each session. The are 2 different campaigns with some of the same players. I DM one (it is currently 5th Edition and we seem to change systems in this group every year or so) and the other...

53 years old with 4 duaghters. Ages 25, 23, 21,and 15. Two of them are active gamers and DMs. I have been playing fairly steadily since 1977ish. Started DMing about a year after I started playing.

I never did try Federation and Empire but we did have 6 or 7 of us each taking one of the powers and then trying to expand. We had formal written treaties and would move fleets around and then hash out the battles using SFB. As I recall we had one person who would collect the strategic orders...

I played the FASA game a long time ago and enjoyed it. I picked up pretty much everything put out by Last Unicorn Games but only played a few times. It's been a long time but it was a lot of fun. As someone said the toughest thing about the Star Trek universe is putting together a group of...

Like many people have said, did you have fun and more importantly, do you see yourself having fun if the campaign continues this way? Was everyone else having fun? If the answer to #1 is yes then you have your answer. If the answer to #1 is no and the answer to #2 is yes, then you are probably...

Just to throw in my two bits here, by far the biggest mistake was made by the character. If you go charging into a battle without your companions and get yourself in over your head, you have nobody to blame but yourself. The appliation of disadvantage to save was unfortunate, but as someone...

Fat Dragon does fantastic work. I got in on the last kickstarter and I couldn't be happier with the product.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in a GMing as part of a team or pair and if so how it worked out. Any specifics would be appreciated. The reason I ask is that both my wife and I play in the same group and alternate as GMs and we were thinking that it might be an idea to try to...

we don't really want too many bad guys reading it either -- competition is not to be tolerated when it comes to Overlording....... Co-Overlord doesn't really ring true to me...........

while I am not opposed to their existence I would rather see other things fill the pages of the core books

rereading Those Who Hunt the Night by Babara Hambly and for non-fiction working my way through a couple of Project Management books

Just watched the first season of Eureka --- not too bad --- hopefully the rest are as good. Just finished the 4th season of Leverage. Also happy to see Fringe back - Walter may just be one of my favourite characters on any show.

Just not sure at this point -- I am leaning towards no, at least not right away. I like a fairly rules heavy game and so far it seems like i will have to wait for all of the "modules" to come out before I would be tempted. It has always been annoying when splat books come out and someone wants...