Recent content by GMMichael

There's the pirate-endorsed term for a real role-playing game: ARRPG.

It's fair to call computer games an RPG if they resemble an RPG (even if you're not actually role-playing). But as you show, some RPGs don't even resemble other RPGs. Which makes CRPG pretty meaningless. Indeed, a quick look at Steam suggests that "RPG" is a self-applied term that can mean...

Thanks to a thoroughly non-medieval grocery chain, I prefer broccoli on mine. I'm not a gnome, but I'm not fully human, either. Also, I'm pretty sure that as long as there have been soldiers, there have been innovations like sandwiches.

Yup, I'm ignored by the poster. Which makes the ENWorld front page a little less useful/interesting. :(

I'd go with Advantage instead of bonus damage for (2). Ultimately, this looks like it incentivizes a lot of running around instead of actual fighting. Two words: damage advantage.

I'm getting this error for 'There Was a Magic: The Gathering RPG Being Developed at WotC And You Can Bid On The Draft For Charity." I hope not, because this site's name isn't "ENWorld RPG News and Reviews (Unless We Decided to Ignore You)."

I'll let you know when I figure out what who-guessing is. PS: GMs don't need karma.

This might be a sign of something bigger. When the wife and I watch relationship game shows, I hardly remember anyone's name because all I have to do is wait until that person's confession-room shot to see the contestant's name, age, and occupation. Easy come, easy go.

Convenient? Yes. Useful? Not if you retain less. The kindle has some downsides that a book doesn't. It requires batteries. Remember the great TP Shortage of 2020? Same thing can happen to batteries. Okay, you just charge straight from the outlet. How much control do you have over that...

What I heard is that the new half-edition (they haven't admitted to a full new one yet) is fully compatible. So I would not be happy with my DM telling me that whatever rule I wanted to use was wrong. The DM is always right. Which presents serious problems for the player who doesn't like the...

This is a big reason why I avoid D&D. It was great, back when D&D was the only game, which meant I had to explore or I wouldn't be role-playing. But with a wider horizon, I asked myself, "what if I played a game that was . . . digestible?" I think that the difference, in the brain, is that...

What if you open-source it, and use the ENWorld wiki to post known routes? An X-Y-Z coordinate system from the galaxy center would allow the posting of unique destinations/routes. You'd need that web app for finding "nearby" destinations, though. Let me know if you're interested, so I can...

Napier's constant? Energy?

So, am I hearing "get rid of the Op Attack rule" to make everyone more mobile? Or "if you whiff, the least you can do is draw your opponent's reaction for the round so she can't Op Attack anyone else?"