Recent content by OregonGM

View from YADM (Yet Another DM) As others have said, the most important thing here is going to be the DM. Speaking as one, I'd kill to have a few more players spend time getting this kind of emotional meat on their PCs. Not only would I allow it, I'd make sure I made it a point to design...

I do technical support for my company's "Small Business Division" software. "SBD" as an acronym is bad enough, but all our materials say "SBD Division". I work for the Small Business Division Division. In fact, I have a PDF formatted document which says so.

Chalk up another vote for Badaxe Games' "Skull Ratings". Definately fits the "tools I can use" category. One vote for the Arcana Unearthed magic system (and the move away from alignment that goes with it).

Slick. Pretending you didn't dismiss them as hero worshippers? That whole paragraph. "Monte's readers are less discriminating and will not read the original source." Thank you for your worry. Thank god you are here to save us from ourselves.

Free? I'd go and get it and all, but I've been convinced that if I look at it or read a single word, I'll become Monte's slavering lapdog. I want to sit with the cool kids! I want to sit with the cool kids!

As I mentioned earlier, I'm just not getting this. I'm to understand that this would be more acceptable if I (having no fans) put this together? The name calling, by the way, is just irritating and silly. A blanket statement for everyone who thinks this might be okay? It would be clearer to...

Whoah, sorry. The quotes were reflecting what I think is a job I wouldn't do if there was a gun to my head. Like, I "get" to eat a handfull of nails. Well, yeah. Everything a publisher puts out is to promote his or her own interests, with the exception of Windows ME and Complete Arcane. (No...

Snarky. I like that in a publisher who wants part of my gaming dollar. If Adamant would write this (book, magazine, digest, pamphlet) I'd buy it from them. Imagine that! You get one publisher saying "Here is what I think is good." and you have a statement. You get three to do it , and it...

Here appears to be the meat of the matter. Monte has apologized repeatedly for running over your dog. Okay, sorry about that (to both parties). He's not entitled to write a book about the stuff he thinks was the best of 2004 because he has some popularity and respect? Yeah, Monte "gets" to...

I think this is why some folks are having a hard time finding your point. The above is repeated so many times in slightly different ways that I suspect your issue is not with bad game design, but with a flamewar you lost. If it helps, I agree with your point that "Bad games are bad", but I...

I'll cop to that one. Add in Metallica's "Master of Puppets" album and Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime" and you have my D&D trifecta for 2 decades. "And from the wreckage, I will arise Cast the ashes back in their eyes See the fire, I will defend Keep on burning, right to the end."...

Done with Dragon Add my voice to the list of people dropping Dragon for Dungeon. Everything I read Dragon for is now in Dungeon. I don't need 15 more PrCs or Magic Items or whathaveyou. Don't change Dragon on my account, there is a need for these things for a lot of players. I, however...

I'm 100% down for this. I would like to pre-emptively offer my condolences to the printer and wish them luck on their Sanity checks. “Bob Holly is in trouble. I want you to pull all references to Hardcore Holly.” “But I just sent chapter 4 to the pri . . .” “I don’t care what you did. Also...

One of my favorite times as a player (okay, one of my only times as a player) we were adventuing through "The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh" and after cleaning out the . . .uhm . . .haunting agents, we bought it from the town. We adventured almost exclusively to afford remodeling. It didn't...

Alright, y'all heard the man. Everybody move one spot to the left and make some room! Welcome to the end of your disposable income :D