Recent content by sjmiller

I feel that for a D&D game I will always roll stats until the system changes and forces me to do something else. Now, granted, I roll my stats, write them down, and only THEN do I decide what kind of character am I going to have. Oh, and N'raac, I have and sill roll stats right in front of the...

There is one particular location for files, mentioned several times, that I cannot seem to find. Publisher Contacts or sometimes Publisher Contact Settings If someone can tell me how to find that particular location, I would appreciate it.

In order to make something harder, you add modifiers. If someone does not have the proper tools, give the standard roll (8+) a modifier of +2, making it a 10+ to succeed. Most everything is up to the Referee, but general guidelines are to add a minor modifier +2 for harder tasks, an additional...

Sadly, I have not been feeling well this weekend, so going out yesterday was not an option. So, nothing for me this year. Such a shame, since there was some nice stuff available.

My latest purchase was a board game called Marrakech. Bought it at a thrift store for $3. You are a carpet merchant in the Bazzar at Marrakech. It is a strategy game of placing your carpets on the map for maximum visibility. Best thrift store purchase yet! The latest game I got was a prize from...

I can tell you that in California they were listing times of birth at least 50 years ago. I was also just commenting on why I happened to know mine.

I know, because of several reasons. One, it is an easy to remember time: 2:22pm Pacific Standard Time. Two, it is on my birth certificate, which I have needed on several occasions. Why it would be needed on a survey is beyond me.

Nigel D Findley 1959 – 1995 (wow, has it really been that long?)

For me, the point of pre-painted miniatures is the fact that I cannot paint them better myself. Allergies and an unsteady hand mean that I cannot paint them at all. So, instead of having a lot of unpainted minis on the table, I rather like having prepainted ones.

If they are like my group they will try to play it like D&D no matter what the genre you pick. We tried playing a game of Agents of Oblivion and the first time they encountered something unusual their first thought was to shoot it or blow it up. That did not end well...

I've said it before and I will say it again, the best Sci-Fi RPG is still the classic version of Traveller. It can do hard SF, it can do space opera, or just about any other style of gaming. Heck, at one point I created a Doctor Who RPG based on the Traveller rules. Now,I know someone is going...

I read a lot of Google+, but I do not post a great deal. When I do it is often to solicit advice for real life concerns or to publish gaming idea.

I wish Steve the best of luck. I will have to ask him if he really meant to use a misspelling of ad infinitum as the name of his company. Just struck me as odd.

I would not say I was up in arms about the whole treatment of gnomes in the video and in the game. I was a bit annoyed that things like gnomes and druids, which have been core items since Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, were left out of the initial Player's Handbook. The video was just...

I am involved in two groups, with me being the only overlap in the groups. In my main group, we have 10 people. I am the DM and the rest are players. One player has run games for other people, but not this group. One player, at my request, ran a game of Classic Traveller for the group for a...