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In this thread, I posted a tick-based initiative system for 3.x, and there was some discussion of how to implement it. Not sure how it would work for 4E, it would probably be simpler. I find that tick-based initiative feels faster-paced, whether it is or not. And since RPGs are experiential...

When I emailed out the news to my friends, I noted that I've spent a huge portion of my life enjoying things that arose from what Gary Gygax created. The aggregate of those experiences played a major part in making me who I am, good or bad. On one level, he was basically just a guy who geeked...

I think Dancey is also referring to FLGS. And his point is, that their profits depend on CCGs and other collectible games, and that RPG products are only a small portion of most game stores' sales. So, the d20 boom was therefore not that bad for retailers.

Voted for a bunch. Blackdirge Publishing was my "other." Does simple, useful things really well. (Obviously, I would like it if Big Finger Games did 4E too, for personal reasons...)

Ditto. I've enjoyed my work for EN Publishing enough that I would be willing to contribute financially to its evolution.

Actually, if I recall correctly (haven't done much with my Realms books the last few years), there is precedent for Unther being overrun by a non-human race from another dimension. The Orcgate was there, I think. So there is a setting-driven logic to Unther being the place where a dimensional...

While I am amused, we can't really blame Jack Vance for the D&D magic system. He did what many fantasy authors do and made up a novel way for magic to work in the universe of his stories, and it is not his fault Gary Gygax and his successors wrapped so much of D&D around it (and clung to it so...

This was discussed heavily in a recent thread, and we came to the conclusion that "powers" are what probably talents have evolved into, and likely use a similar structure.

It is my best recollection that it was Sovereign Press, advertising for the d20 version of Sovereign Stone.

I am one of the many folks who intends to allow them but to adapt them to whatever world I may be running (as opposed to adapting the world's history to include them), maybe as the basis for converting draconians/assarai/saurials/mojh/whatever to 4E.

Out of the books you list, ToB would have trouble competing-- whether it was brilliant or terrible-- simply because of what it is. It offers a whole new system and a new paradigm for looking at martial types. The other books offer magic items and feats (and in most cases prestige classes) that...

Not for nothin', but while I love Exalted's setting and unique atmosphere, to my mind the system itself did not create an anime feel (nor did it service its own fluff). This failure came down to one thing: combat takes forever. A single round goes on for days. The dice mechanics create an...

The best answer is also the simplest. Every year, I would release an anthology of selected material from planewalker.com, the official Planescape website. Run by fans with WotC's blessing, it just so happens to be the greatest setting-affiliated rpg fansite on the net, with consistently high...

I know this: Kobolds are popular in the games I play in. And in our Ptolus game, I have a lizardman with "mysterious" ancestry. So in my games, there is already precedent for reptilian folks. I think I might propose to my DM that kobolds have the option of using a new version one of those...

4E: Too much like Starcraft. And Jesus. I agree: best guess is powers are probably something of what talent trees evolved into. The only real difference between talents and feats in previous games has been that talents were more specifically tied into classes. And they have already stated feats...

Thanks a lot, these look great. I'm happy for any new Saga content-- WotC isn't doing enough for my taste.

A) This conversation is irrelevant. This is the real world, and a company has given a team a due-date for product implementation. If that due date were not met, huge amounts of money would be lost and people would be fired. As much as we may academically debate how much time this project...

Morrus-- I'm paranoid with worry that you did not receive the edited Tides of Chaos chapters. Please let me know you got them (I hope we're not having email probs again). --Jeremy Forbing

Thank you for the great diagram! One question: if I have armor spikes or spiked gauntlets, do I threaten the squares marked X just as my mount does? If so, this is absolutely what I am doing. I will be a moving 30 foot square fountain of whup-ass.

Unfortunately, I think I'm not going the trip route- not because I don't it would work (I have Strength as a domain, so I can Enlarge myself) but because I don't think I'll have the Intelligence for Combat Expertise-- game is 28 point buy, and as a fighter/cleric I have a lot of ability scores...