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Yeah... You seem to be thinking under the misconception that I actually roll every die of every attack between every NPC. My main style being role-playing this would be extremely disruptive to my games. What I meant by what I said, and you seem to have misunderstood, is that I apply the same...

I DM Conan D20, and there's no magic whatsoever in the party. A magician, wizard or what-have-you is almost always a deadly enemy and very, very evil (or so self-absorbed as not to care about other people) and/or in league with demons or other icky-poof things. Combat is more meaningful, there...

This is mostly what happens at my table too. Playing Conan actually boosted the number of combats in my game since they tend to be more dramatic than mowing down orcs endlessly, but I'm still at 2-3 fights per game session at most.

I do have a problem with the creation of NPCs, mainly because I DM all the time, but I still think the rules should be consistent. To me the players are special not because they are different from the rest of the world, but because they are the focus of the game. A 20th level Paladin protecting...

In a way I do agree with you. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I moved to a very low-magic system (Conan). I always found magic to be one thing that was hard to mesh with a consistent world. Especially stuff like raising the dead or divinations and teleporting.

And my point was that consistency is what makes a good game world good. If my players witness a dragon breathing on an army of orcs or humans it will have the exact same breath attack as the one that was used on the players. Immersion feeds a lot from these small, and apparently insignificant...

So let me get this straight. Your players don't care about anything that doesn't affect them directly? Then your players truly are of a different breed than mine. And I guess that really makes a difference in the discussion.

Interesting. In my mind it's a cumulative thing. I have to go through several steps to actually experience the fantasy worlds I create. First I have to read about it, then imagine things and people in it interacting, which is already a reach. After that comes the ritual of coming together with...

And you don't find that even a little bit grating to the suspension of disbelief? I haven't played pure D&D in a while (I run A Conan D20 game once a month and a Call of Cthulhu BRP whenever I can) so perhaps I'm not in a position to argue for or against 4E. But I still disliked most of the...

Seeing as it is a much better game, it's deserved.

I know I am in the minority, but I really, REALLY hate Reynolds' pieces. It does remind me of anime and it just isn't for me. I hated them in the 3E MM as much as a I hate them now for 4E. So this isn't some newfangled antipathy that I developed "because of 4E".

Conan.

This: Except I'd replace "half convinced" with "fully convinced", and "dislike splatbooks" with "hate splatbooks with a passion rivaled only by Hercules' fits of fury".

My group is not affected at all, since we only have time to play one session per month (on average) and we're busy with Conan right now. Conan gave us everything we wanted. Less magic, more physical combat options to make melee exciting, and the storytelling potential of Howard's world. Did I...

If it has more Conan in it, sure..I'll buy it off the bat. Otherwise, no.

The OP needs more Conan.

It needs more Conan.

I would refer you to Forrester's Lecture named "The Aelvish problem", but that's been lost to time. I do have it saved up somewhere though. :)

As someone who has been away from RPGs (and, consequently, D&D) for about two years, I speak with a little more comfort than most here. I love books. I absolutely love them. Magazines usually are to books what a "quickie" is to sex (pardon the comparison, but it's the one that first popped in...

Just think of WHFRP as "Call of Cthulhu meets D&D". In fact, go ahead and appropriate CoC's sanity system for the fantasy game... :) The two best fantasy games I have ever played (DM'd mostly) were Earthdawn and Warhammer.