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[Friggin double post. Something on my computer puked on submit... >_<;]

I'm sure a sample size of 117ish is not a perfect reflection of the real population... but yeah, I'm surprised too. If anything, I'd have thought the gender gap would be smaller online than in the real world - though I guess the difference between those two areas is also closing for gamers. To...

I had a female friend bring me to a local gaming club when I was in high school, in around 1996. My mum was pretty worried about it, because she was still on the tail end of her religious phase; she had been bullied into believing all sorts of crap about the Evils of Fantasy, despite the fact...

While I do probably mean sex when I ask whether people are/play male or female, I made a point of not stating that explicitly - if a person hears the terms and thinks about gender more than sex, they are more than welcome to answer accordingly. I tried to leave that open, since I know there's...

Yeah, I feel like a bit of a jackass. I tried to experiment, but on closer inspection what happened was that I didn't notice the tabs for creating generator/table/etc. So what I saw was the default page after clicking "create", which is the mostly-empty Generator form, which led to me thinking...

Nope, never seen the system. The information given in the wiki article was all I could find, so I assumed it was an example of how the system actually worked. I see it now! Thanks.

Aaah, I see! Not so much lost in conversion, I think - I knew the song was active while Indomitability was a stag and Deception was a seela, but probably I got confused around later trillith, where we offhandedly get things like Madness maybe sticking around to fight if the heroes use the Song...

In my game it turned into something like a hybrid of both. They were on horses when they left the city, but between the group's historian and the character who was a Gate Pass local, they identified the likely ambush site and paused before they got there. The sneaky character and the acrobatic...

A few questions (which may be worth clarifying in the wiki text itself) Tables can reference tables - does this include themselves? Like, could you implement the oft-seen "100) Roll twice" by giving your table its own name in position 100? Can scripts be used in tables or only in generators...

Humm... good point about Tempest. 12 is the last adventure though, isn't it? At that point I wouldn't be briging him back in unless you wanted to elevate him to a major confrontation, lest he complicate the really important stuff. That's just my view on it though.

Crystin is also a potential ongoing point of contact with the trillith. I don't think any of what she does in that capacity is critical, but it's her major point of relevance; if your players aren't great at catching dangling plot threads, she's quite useful (though you could transfer this to...

I figured the Dianoem was a lead-in for the one possessed by the war wizard in part 4. I do find myself wishing it would crop up again, though. As for Haddin, it sounds like he's liable to become a lich if left to his own devices, though I don't think it ever explicitly happens. If you want...

Awww, I saw the thread and thought it would be more beasts/animal companions type stuff. If there were a project with, say, a Tasmanian Devil, Thylacine, Wombat, Quoll and Carnifex, I would simply have to give them all my money. Still totally awesome though. Mind you, if you're doing...

If it's a combat NPC, then monster stats do the trick beautifully, with much less fiddle. If it's a non-combat NPC, I use a simple set of "cohort" rules I whipped up to deal with non-combat followers. If it's a PC, character builder tools are my best friend - with databases rather than books, I...

Should there be mundane healing in the game? My answer would be hells yes. I resent the idea that magic makes you better than no magic - all power sources should be equally powerful IMO, because power source is a story/character/RP choice and not one that you should be rewarded or punished for...

Ah okay - thanks Morrus :) I think I an report it to them directly via Google Play store, if that would help. I'II check it out!

So I finally have an actual smartphone, which means I can try out the EN World app! Wooo! Unfortunately there does seem to be one problem, which is that if I click on "notifications", the links listed there don't seem to be links (they don't open the forum post, or anything for that matter. Is...

I never saw them as unrelated - I mean, in most challenges or quests you use both your skills and your combat stats, so keeping them separate seems like unnecessary complication to me. Still, I think I see where you're coming from - you only get better at what you practice, right? In a finely...

Yes, I did mean to refer only to PCs :p It's hard to imagine a GM who has never had an NPC who didn't match their gender, even if they didn't care to roleplay that person directly.

I absolutely agree that D&D is a combat-centric system, but it is worth noting that in 4e at least, XP rewards for non-combat challenges is no longer a suggestion but a part of the core rules. Like them or loathe them, Skill Challenges are definitely there to provide XP for the sort of things...