Recent content by evildm

It's on Simcoe, between Bond and King. If you're looking for old stuff, it's pretty good for that. Anything newer and you're better off with Worlds Collide up the street or going into the city for the other mentioned stores (I highly recommend Hairy T).

When I was younger I used to run pretty much every campaign this way. Just see what happens and roll with it. As such, I was very good (IMHO) at handling things on the fly and keeping it interesting. As I've gotten older, it's been a bid difficult to do, but after running an adventure path and...

Sandbox-style: What's your opinion? I found this thread, "Sandbox-style: What's your opinion?", interesting and have nominated it accordingly for Topic Of The Week 38, September, 2008.

I propose that from here on out, whenever Splug (I checked, it's Splug) is discussed, we deliberately misspell his name in new and exciting ways. That way, nobody needs to try and get it right, they need to just be creative! ;)

I don't think that there's anything that can't be done in 4e, to be honest. In fact, I find it much easier to do whatever I want with it than 3e was. I'm actually gearing up to run a Planescape game and so far I haven't had any issues. If I need a fiend to be in some sort of magical...

A very good read, Dungeondelver, even if I don't agree. It's nice to see someone discuss this without vitriol as there's been far too much of that lately. I don't want to see ENWorld become like so many other message boards. I like to think we're civilized here. I think Merric sums up my...

I wasn't talking in absolutes (at least, I hope I wasn't). I was talking about the feeling I get while reading the books, and I think a few other posters felt the same way. This doesn't mean that 3e didn't allow or even encourage changing things to fit you better, it just felt that way. If you...

I probably should have worded it a bit better, sorry. What I meant was that in the books in 3e it seemed to try to dissuade you from houseruling by warning you about possible implications. That's good that you had good results from making it up as you went along. I used to do that alot in my...

I think it feels like 1e because the attitude in the books is alot more freewheeling, so to speak. In 3e if you wanted to houserule something, you needed to make sure that the whole system didn't collapse. Having just been reading the new DMG, I get the distinct impression that it's very much...

Just a clarification, the Gnome is also in the MM as a player race, check the end of the book (if you have it). The only thing it's missing are racial feats which aren't very important anyway.

In fact, while reading through the books I keep getting the impression that it'd be a great fit for a Conan-styled Swords and Sorcery kind of game.

Kudos on a thought-out and well-reasoned response. In fact I agree with alot of your sentiment. There's alot of "forced fluff" so to speak to almost shoehorn the game into the PoL setting. I like that they moved away from Greyhawk, but I don't like that they moved into a less generic setting...

Welcome to the boards! Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but a word to the wise that slander against other folks is not easily tolerated here, so mind the manners and try to have fun. Sorry that us ape-folk are having badwrongfun. We'll try to stop and go back to... uh... which edition...

I'm sure there'll be alot of things that people(myself included) don't like about 4e. It's inevitable. At first glance, it's looking good. 3e fixed alot of things that were wrong with 2e, and I still see it as a great advancement to the system. That said, at least at the outset, 4e is looking...

Totally agreed. It's been awhile since I read a rulebook and actually got ideas as I read it. So far the only issue with the system is that combat in KotS seems to be taking a bit longer to resolve than I'm used to, but I'm beginning to think that's a fault with adventure design more than...