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Great feedback, guys. My goal here (if any) is to make combat more interesting by giving players the ability to move more without sacrificing the all important killing power. And also to reduce handling time during turns. When you've got a high-level character with TWF, you're looking at 4 or 6...

There's been a lot of talk about how 4e is getting rid of full-attacks. I think this would really help eliminate the "5' step and attack" that a lot of combats turn into. If you were to eliminate the full-attack from 3.5e, how would you do it? For PCs, it'd be easy enough, just drop the extra...

So are we expected to roll for each terrain feature for each square? I'm not sure how we're supposed to use the information.

On d20srd.org, in the section on getting lost does anyone know what the tables with the terrain types and percentages are for? At first I thought it was percent of the given area (eg Forest) that was of a certain type (eg sparse, medium and dense), but then I noticed that the percentages don't...

Good points. One of the givens in this game that I've ripped off from Ben Robbin's blog is that we don't even meet to play unless the players organize a party from the player pool and set a destination and route. So in other words, I should have a good idea of what to prep, because they've sent...

I forgot to mention it here since I mentioned it in the thread I linked to, but the entire idea is based on Ben Robbin's West Marches game.

Hey folks, I'm going to be running my first sandbox game, most likely with 3.5e D&D, though I'm still sorting it out here. At this point 3.5e is most likely, since my players want to start now. I've never run a sandbox game before. Does anyone have any tips, gotchas, etc? I've got a wiki set...

I almost forgot--hey Fitz! I have heard of Hourglass via the VGG (one of the admins is playing in this game) but have never been out to Port Moody (I'm relatively new to the area). And I live in East Van (near VCC). Keep an eye on this thread... once I get up and running, maybe you can join us...

Good question. :) First of all, I'd like to respectfully ask Derren to exit the thread. There are lots of other threads that are devoted to picking apart the pros and cons of 3e vs 4e, and I feel that your discussion has moved into that arena. Thank you for the insights that you gave up-thread...

You know, I was really tired when I wrote that. I have a feeling there were two sentences that got combined, because what I wrote makes no sense at all.

Fitz, it's easier for me to just link to the blog where I first heard the term than try to explain what a sandbox game is. Wyzard, do you live in Vancouver, BC? Keep the opinions coming. In the one session of 4e that we played, we had a very tough fight that could have gone either way. It was...

I'm going to start up a sandbox game, modeled very closely on the West Marches game at Ars Ludi. It's nothing terribly pressing--I could start now as an alternate to our regular 3.5e game or I could start in a couple of months when the guy DMing the regular game is finished. Today the players...

Re: pdf sales and Monte Cook, there's mounting evidence that pdfs, whether sold or given away for free, spur hard-copy purchases of books. I blogged about it here: How to Get Rich as an Author: Pirate Yourself. Tor Books (sf publisher) recently started making free pdfs of their backlist...

You guys are totally missing the point. There's a bug in this code. It's supposed to be a comparison: WoW == D&D But the OP is doing an assignment: WoW = D&D All I can say is that a *bunch* of WoW players are gonna be pissed when their Level 70 Dwarf Hunter is replaced with a Moldvay-era...

Martial classes have their own rituals. Also known as the Montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xBSfY01nMk

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I think its helpful to separate the the situation with Vincent and the baby from the fight with the NPC guards, because we really don't have enough information about the NPC guard situation. The Vincent situation is an opportunity for some GREAT gaming though. Here's a guy who is ruthless...

Irda's got it. I'm not saying Bards shouldn't continue to Inspire Courage or otherwise participate in combat, just that Rituals seem like a good fit for Bards. That poster with the fast pants has a good point about Powers with a sustain action also being a good fit for songs during cr0mbat...

I've been playing a Bard for about six months now in a friend's Freeport campaign and to my surprise, enjoying the heck out of it. But one thing has always bothered me about the Bard. The archetype generally is of a performer so talented that his songs enchant or otherwise bamboozle his enemies...

I'm going to change the way the Paladin's marketing works. Right now he's all austere and unforgiving. I want a paladin with attitude. He's edgy, he's "in your face." You've heard the expression "let's get busy"? Well, this is a paladin who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly. You know...