Recent content by darkwing

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow!

I'm the exact opposite. I've seen hundreds of rpg rulebooks (I roll my eyes every time I see another d20 based game). But good published adventures are few and far between.

I just got Descent 2nd edition and most of the reason I love the game is the way the quests are written. There are some rather innovative concepts that anyone interested in writing good adventurers should see for themselves. Most interestingly, the heroes can never die but they can lose...

Yep. But "they" in this case means those running D&D. I mean it could be the same people but if so they're looking at D&D and saying "not worth the effort" and "oh shiny new MTG season" and "Did you say something about D&D? I couldn't hear you over the cash registers ringing from all these...

Well they do know how make money from MTG. But it's pretty clear they don't know what they're doing with D&D. The last financial statement I read from them only mentioned D&D for their income from licensing to 3rd parties.

THAC0. Or BAB. Or the ability to build a character that can't hit because of where you placed (or rolled) attribute scores. All characters should have a fairly good but never guaranteed chance to hit regardless of how "bad" or "good" (munchkin wise) they are built.

If WotC had any business sense whatsoever they would have let those other table top (and other applications) companies/hobbyists use the D&D IP on condition that whoever used that IP with their application had a DDI subscription. That way they could get what they wanted (money stream) without...

I figured the thing would fail when they said it wouldn't have the ruleset built in. Wizards makes the game and they can't even figure out how to implement their own rules. If people wanted a generic table top they'd use one of the free ones (and somewhat ironically, several of those do have...

Don't forget items. Many times the items compliment a character build so well that they almost seem necessary (well, the same build without the items would be sub-par). And frankly, I don't mind options, its just that they should be introduced slowly over time and the way D&D is set up makes...

I like 4e but it's not easy enough. Mostly this has to do with how attribute scores are treated (both with ability to hit things and feat pre-reqs). You need to plan your character out several levels in advance just to back factor in which starting attributes you need to hit the feats you want...

I figure most will continue to keep playing 4e. Some rpg fans who liked 4e because it advanced rpg game design will probably move to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Fantasy Flight Games has created a rather innovative RPG there in terms of game mechanics but the game is different than any of the D&D...

Our group has evolved. It started with individual XP in 2e and 3e, then with 4e we started using group xp and now (still 4e) the DM just says when to level up. And we level up between adventures, basically whenever it's a good time to do story wise or if the DM is planning something big. This is...

I think the problem is especially pronounced for D&D because so much of a character's theme is item dependent. My warlord has a helm that gives bonuses to attacks I grant. My slayer has a helm that adds to charge damage. This is the way I want it and what the characters were designed for. If the...

Assuming a fantasy setting (replace qualifiers as appropriate for other settings): Detail that brings out the flavor of the world is great. But it shouldn't go much beyond that. The customs of the people in a particular region, what daily life is like for various economic classes, how religion...

Hydra. Every time we killed a non-minion, a minion would pop out of nowhere. This represented "every time you strike one of us down, another will take our place." It was a pretty fun fight... the DM could have killed us if he wanted to.