Recent content by roger semerad

I wish more people took this advice to heart. An overstuffed burger is pointless to me. I think the reason we see so much of it is pure marketing. Got to have a burger description that one-ups the competition and blows you away with the extravagance of it. I have two go to combinations for...

Reading this and thinking about what has been said so far in this thread I realized I probably haven't made it clear why this doesn't work for so many of us. So I'm going to ramble a bit here. I hope people who think this way will follow me on this little journey, and hopefully understand why...

If that's the rules of the group there shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't want to play in it, but I'd just move onto another group that fit my style. It sounds like you're trying to recruit as many new players as possible and that's causing the issue, maybe because as new players they don't...

Since my early 20s I've always considered the idea of evil as an objectively true concept horrifying. Labeling something as evil is always an excuse to abuse that being. I'm a moral relativist, I think morals are arrived to out of a societal conversation. There is a biological basis for some...

This is a really cool way to handle it, and I respect it. I prefer milestone leveling myself, but I'd still want the decision to be the DM's. The DM knows where the overall story and world is heading much more than the players. I'd want the level of the group to work with the scenario the DM...

Hmm... In general, I don't watch a lot of old t.v. series. Through most of it's history it has been a lesser form of storytelling, at least in the U.S.A.. There are some real stand outs though, particularly in the comedy genre. Star Trek - is overall a great series with interesting concepts...

I picked Craig, Connery, and Lazenby. Craig and Connery are the standouts that really nailed the character, everyone else is below them. My third pick was between Lazenby and Brosnan and I had a hard time picking between them. Lazenby only got one film, but it's one to the best in the series...

Great writeup as usual. As with so many things with rpgs it comes down to talking to your group and making sure everyone is having fun. I do like optimizing to an extent, but I'm a little different about it. My personal way to "optimize" rules could be more accurately called "exploring" the...

I was only active during 3.5 and 4th, so all my picks are from there. 3.5 Player's Handbook 2 and Book of Nine Swords - This was the peak of class design in 3rd edition. There was a lot of good experiementation at the end of this edition, but these are the ones that stand out to me. 3.5...

I personally really prefer the later sleeker designs. It's not about aerodynamics, it's about looking cool. Like those cars from the 30s and 40s that had cool sculpting but were aerodynamically naughty word. When any engineer puts so much work into a design, they want it to both look good and...

Nice, it's always a pleasure to talk to another transformer fan. I'm glad that the Transformers line is getting more female transformers lately. It really adds to the variety out there and expands the appeal to new fans. My favorite female transformers in the main lines so far are Prime first...

I collect transforming toys. It started as my love for the Transformers growing up. I was born in 82 and the original show was my first love. Getting an Optimus Prime for christmas is even my earliest childhood memory. But as time passed and I got older I moved on from toys, it was the...

I'm looking forward to your feedback. It will take a while, but also tell us what the high level experience is like. I felt that high level enemies were absurdly tanky in the original. The only efficient way to take them out was to cast weakness to magic-weakness to element-damage spell, in...

I'll start off by saying, all genres are poorly defined, and any definition starts to break down the more you test it. Trying to define a genre is an intellectual exercise for the fun of it, because clearly there are some common similarities between works in a genre. Few are going to agree...

I have never liked theaters. I've had all kinds of problems over the years, unclean seats and isles, laser pointers aimed at the screen, phones not turned off and ringing during the movie, talking throughout the film, and even crying babies (not children, babies. As in under two years old. Of...