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The AH thing is because the loot in Diablo is very much random; Diablo isn't always going to drop a helm token, for example, but will have a random list that you can draw from. So, this lets you sell the items that you can't use to people who can and will and get some benefit out of it, either...

I suspect that "fast to prepare" and "lots of fiddly bits" are very much mutually exclusive. Which is a pity; I like being able to make a lot of little decisions, but my DMs both really like not needing a bajillion spells that they can wind up missing in the heat of battle. One of them said...

If those 4.99 billion people actually were going to buy D3, they'd certainly have an offline mode. But pretending that every single person in the world is likely to buy a clickfest dungeon crawling game is hyperbole of the worst and most excessive order. Bear in mind that Blizzard is...

Just finished Malazan Book 3, and then Artemis Fowl. Next, undecided. Maybe The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, maybe Reamde. I also have the second Malus Darkblade omnibus waiting in the wings, along with a couple of other books salvaged from the wreckage of Borders' business plans. Edit: Did...

At least rapier's martial now. It seemed like a waste when it was a Superior weapon, since it was just a Light Blade longsword. But, hey, I still went and took it anyway since I liked rolling all d8s on my attacks on my rogue. I still carried daggers for ranged so I could get double mileage...

Institutional bias? It is *Wizards* of the Coast, not Plate-wearers of the Coast, after all. Brad

What irritated me about that was that it appeared in its gloriously brutal form almost immediately after they nerfed Avengers' AC for the same damn reason. While I was playing an avenger. It certainly would be nice if they, say, kept track of things like that, and didn't appear to keep...

So, needing a 14 instead of a 12 to hit the strikers that have an off-role of defender is a game-breaking problem? When most things aren't rolling against AC anyway? Sorry, I don't buy it. Brad

It kinda sounds, just a little bit, like a long-running convention game. It's not necessarily bad, but a big pull for me is making my own character. Brad

I was waiting with baited breath for someone to notice this. Literally, as soon as I picked the book up from Compleat Strategist, we're driving to our Shadowrun game, and I point this out to my friend. Really, I don't see a problem. Yes, it's a really good thing to purchase. But it's also...

If I just get up and leave, without thinking about it, whenever I get to the Metro, my train will be pulling in. Brad

In a short-lived epic 3.0 campaign, my half-dragon anthropomorphic tyrannosaur monk used Grimlock-speak, aka "Me Tolthrak think this plan foolish and unlikely to succeed." He wasn't *stupid* (he had a 16 Int...the DM kinda went crazy with stats, one reason the game was short-lived), but that...

I second emoplato's vote. Sell the damn thing. If you have an artificer in the group, have them shard the weapon for XP so nobody else is tempted to waste their time on it. It's a public service! I don't think the problem is "zomg it has penalties." Despite the penalties being annoying...

If you're in the DC area, there's Dream Wizards in Rockville, and Game Parlor out in Chantilly (Woodbridge location is closed, sadly), and Compleat Strategist in Falls Church. I think all three should be able to get it, hopefully soon. Of those, DW is the most Metro-accessible, though the...

Yeah, that seems appropriate. Alternately, houserule a feat that gives, say, +2 Perception and something else, and cosmetically changes you into a Wolfman/Crinos/DBT warform type. That seems a bit lame for a feat, but dude, you get to be a burning/airy/watery wolfdude. Brad

While I don't play PF, I do like that they've made base classes viable alternatives to prestige classing. That was one thing in 3/.5 that did kind of annoy me, especially when there wasn't a good prestige class available (like, say, for my psion in an Eberron game). Brad

Because dice never, ever go south for the winter. EVER. Nor do monsters eat healing surges. Because, you know, the entire thread was started about what happens to a character who has all of their healing surges eaten by surge-draining undead. Page and reference? No? Ah, so a house rule...

... ... O-kay. So, if the players get their asses handed to them, and can barely go on, stopping to rest up "deflates immersion?" Really? Brad

Hrm...I was just listening to the end of Scary Movie 4 on Comedy Central. I kinda think they should've gotten James Earl Jones to do the narration for Conan. Brad

Surge was Coca-Cola's attempt at taking on Mountain Dew in the valued demographic of young, hip, athletic types. And gamers. It lasted maybe two years. And was an acquired taste, just as Mountain Dew is. Vault then replaced it, and is more of an energy drink. It, too, didn't last terribly...