Recent content by jessemock

Well; let's look at what surprised you here. First, topless? What? Second, amateurs: this is an RPG product, for one thing, and, for another, do you simply mean "people without bodies dieted, trained, and airbrushed into superhumanity"? 'Non-Erotic' is a judgement that may actually...

It is pretty ugly, isn't it. But step at a time it seems that: Round 1: Hide--we'll assume normally? R2: start hidden, Snipe as FRA: attack "normally" as standard action, re-hide as move action at -20. I don't know what 'hide while attacking' means for this. Surely, there's no additional...

For one thing, the Phantom Fungus seems to have fallen out of the worst 50s B-Movie ever made--this can be fun, but it doesn't quite lend itself to the broadest range of games. As others have remarked, the fact that it seems to be filling a space in a grid also detracts from its appeal. Who...

We love this module--and even the 'Return' to it. We've played it recently (four or five months ago), albeit as themed monstroid parties, i.e. groups of monstrous characters restricted to races in the Keep module. Obviously, we had to take on the Keep, but, just for kicks, we had a zombie...

Frodo is level 21? I think the whole point of Frodo-as-Epic-Hero is that he's atypical--he's the opposite of Achilles. But it's Achilles, not Frodo, who is the model for what 'Epic' means in D&D.

The proprietor of Fantasy Zone Comics in NK, RI--the fat, the "beard", the 'tude, the whole thing. This reminds me that I forgot to buy a boxful of Savage Swords there once. Damn.

Word. If anyone's at the business of putting out kitsch...

I like the use of 'petty' here: it could only indicate "mean" or "narrow-minded" or "spiteful"--as if the distribution of the material could only take place as a result a desire either to harm someone or to adhere strictly to the letter of the law, for its own sake. Surely, 'petty' couldn't...

What you're saying merely reveals that critical hits have never really been critical hits, but rather lucky hits: despite the fact that a crit is meant to represent a hit to a vital area it in no respect simulates this. A stab to the lung is equivalent to two stabs to the thigh. The wound...

No; it isn't at all--which is unfortunate: I don't want to disagree with you! I like what you're saying about taking care with the introduction of torture to a group (although I think that everything Monte Cook has to say about this topic has more to do with his effort to convince us that he...

It's almost pointless to make suggestions, because torture is so prevalent. Making someone gag is as easy as reading any report on human rights abuses. Or the newspaper. Look up what's going on in Congo or Uzbekistan right now--that should take care of business for a while. On the other...

Right where they should be.

That's super. Wake me up when the plausible explanation rolls in.

One of the sample rooms had a bunch of spiders, scorpions, and beetles hanging out, not eating each other, waiting to attack the party; another had a...templated ghoul...that...attacked the par...zzzzzz...

You're looking at this as if it were a conflict of rules; it isn't: it's a conflict of mood. The exclusion of paladins from Dark Sun is, in part, a rhetorical tactic: the authours communicate something about their setting by way of it. They mean to offer a particular experience; it seems...