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Back in first edition and early second edition, I remember that most new players put more points into Charisma than experienced players (or even computer game players) because they didn't know it was the "dump stat" ;) But in third edition, the Charisma scores are pretty evenly divided. I will...

I'm 30 :) Most of the other female gamers I know are close to my age, or only slightly younger. Balsamic Dragon

I agree with Psion, GMing is definately an art form! When you are a player, you are kind of doing some sort of improvisational theatre, but when you are a GM you are doing improvisational directing, set design, costuming, script writing and casting all at the same time! I love to play, but I...

Thank you for your thoughts and concerns, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I am trying to get through work without crying too much and it helps to know that there are so many people out there who will be thinking of James. Balsamic Dragon

I only got to game with my brother James once. He came up to visit me in Boston when he was 16 and ran a D&D game for me and my friends. It was extremely silly, we had a bug summoning wizard, a couple of con artists, a half-dryad. Me and a friend played a cleric and paladin of "Bjorn", a...

*flails* The flailing guy was Synaptic Dragon, not me! But I was also there from the WOTC list ;) SKUUUUUUURRRRRGE! Balsamic Dragon, 6th level gamemaster, 1st level paladin of the ENWorld Pantheon, working on her Rules Lawyer prestige class

This isn't FR, but I once ran a game where one player was an extremely minor deity and the other player was his sole cleric and follower. He was the God of Poetry, named Shiny Red-Yellow Jericho ;) Balsamic Dragon

I think it is deliberate, not only to have a round number (10), but also to give a slight advantage to the attacker (55% chance to hit). Some other basic concepts: Most actions that are taken by a character require a d20 roll. This roll will almost always by modified by a bonus/penalty that...

Sure: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/main.asp?x=dnd/welcome,3 it's right on the main D&D page, first item. Balsamic Dragon

Interesting poll up on the WOTC site. It appears to be designed to gather information from purchasers of non-WOTC d20 products on why they buy them and, interestingly, which products customers believe are "official D&D products." I don't purchase many non-WOTC products, but that's kind of a...

I was more into Duran Duran and Depeche Mode, but my step-sister was a head banger :) 80's costuming ideas (more for female than male attire, I'm afraid...) in no particular order Shirts and jackets with zippers in odd places Sweatshirts with the collar and arms cut out (ala Flashdance)...

So what would be a good way to train/test GMs? I will agree to disagree on what the ratio of good GMs to bad ones is. A lot of that may be personal taste in any case. I am much less picky about players than I am about GMs. When I play in a game, I expect the GM to have put some actual...

Re: Hardly... This kind of thing is simply an attempt to start a flamewar and is not particularly condusive to the thread. Please take your political/sociological views elsewhere. Balsamic Dragon

In my games and in most of the games that I play in, we usually (but not always) have one or two characters who are cross-gendered. Personally, I think it is an interesting part of role-playing. Perhaps not as analogous to playing a dwarf or an elf, but more analogous to playing a real world...

I put this in a different thread from the "GenCon Needs GMs" thread, because I don't want to discourage folks from signing up. However, this kind of last-ditch effort to get DMs for games that players have already registered for makes me pause. I have played in some great convention games and...

In my gaming group we usually play at my apartment, which has all the WOTC books but few of the other publishers. All the players bring their own PH, some bring a DMG as well. So I'm not really sure who owns what at home. I don't think any of the group use non-WOTC products for D&D, although...

To the extent that Commoners don't get the skill Profession (do they? I assume you are saying they don't, but I don't have the books with me), that may be because farming isn't really a profession. But if the skill description says that Profession (farming) is legit, then I agree that...

Hmmm, I think what both this system and SKR's system fail to account for is that these commoners are not facing their travails of life alone! There is merit to the argument that getting the crops in and surviving harsh winters and such should earn experience points in the same way that fighting...

For the lowest tier of classes, how about a combination between the NPC classes in the DMG and the d20 modern classes? I'm thinking something like this: Soldier (str, trained military) Sneak (dex, either a scout or a foodpad, need better name tho) Tribesman (con, born in wilderness area)...

Slight typo, I think: Neil Gaiman put out a book called American Gods (i think) while Small Gods would be the Terry Pratchet Diskworld book. The GURPS Diskworld supplement is Excellent, btw, not withstanding the general suckiness of the GURPS system ;) I second the motion for Gene Wolfe's...