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Emphasis mine. Also, "the character rather than the game" is a false distinction. For some people, the character is the game. For other people, the tactics are the game. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're one of the latter. "My world's a place where every dungeon has at least...

Maybe the boxed text for the room, when translated into Sanskrit and displayed in Courier font, makes a picture of a sailboat if you look at it with your eyes unfocused. That doesn't matter to the adventuring party. If you're running a worldsim, fine and dandy. If you're running an adventure...

You could do it for a dungeon hack easily enough. Be difficult to do it with a political intrigue adventure, though, unless you've got a utility that generates the quest-giver's dialogue and lets you press buttons like "Sense Motive" -- and then gives you responses based on your roll (which it...

I believe you're attempting to use humorous sarcasm to make a point, but your metaphor is badly flawed. Did Indy need to roll a natural 20 to outrun the boulder? I'm not arguing against traps. I'm arguing against traps that the rogue can't possibly detect and that the guy with the best saves...

They're the same in one respect, though. If Indy had to summon a magical creature to pull every darn lever for him because there might be a nondetectable instakill trap on it, I'd think it was kind of a lame movie. I would similarly find this an asinine DMing tactic -- if the rogue can't find it...

If his DM wants to encourage the bold heroism of "We take 20 on all skill checks, cast every detection spell we have, avoid anything that looks even remotely dangerous, and assume that we could die with effectively no chance to save ourselves at any time," he's doing a wonderful time. Real life...

I'm voting No based on the information we have. If the rogue didn't take 20, that vote would change. "The trap being attached to another area" doesn't work with the rules as written. If pulling the lever activates a trap, trapfinding would let the rogue spot the trap, even if the mechanism that...

Colonel: $55. Fifty-five. Dude. The sweet sweet BioWare bucks are not falling THAT heavily. Joshua Randall: True dat. Edmonton has the requisite bookstores, which have the basics, and the comic stores, which have bupkus, and this store and possibly another one. This one was perhaps a half...

Never got it -- don't know if you did it via PMs or e-mail, but I never got nothin'. Anyway, not a big factor now that you've got the job. (I was gonna ask you more about your skillset to see if you might have what BioWare was looking for -- but that'd be a move, which is not always what people...

Gah. That stinks. The store had a fair number of GURPS supplements (which I think is cool, despite not playing GURPS), a lot of 3rd-party "Hey, here's my world" books that honestly didn't impress me as different enough to merit a look, and some of the basic stuff. There was a ton of Eberron...

One of my work buddies wanted to go see a gaming store that he'd just discovered in the area (I'm in Edmonton, which has a few gaming stores, but not many). I didn't exactly need anything -- between Grim Tales, M&M2E, and the SRD, my gaming needs are pretty much met for any game I want to run...

RW: Yep. I was preparing to be a stay-at-home dad in California because I had a piddly nonprofit job when the little dude arrived, while my wife had a really great technical job. On the day we got home from the hospital, I got the e-mail from BioWare asking if I'd like to do a phone interview...

Geek, would you mind pinging me with an e-mail address I could use to contact you privately?

I'm a writer, or, more formally, non-technical designer. Storylines and dialogue and extremely complex ways to break epic storylines down to: 1. I'll be happy to get your magic acorn back. 2. I'll get the acorn, but it won't come cheap. 3. I'm selling your acorn to the necromancer instead! I...

Kickass! Thanks, everybody. Much appreciated.

Hey, all, And again -- awesome system, awesome system, awesome system. So very glad that I finally convinced my players to make the shift. 1) Someone mentioned a short errata that had been published, but I haven't found it on the Bad Axe Games website. Can somebody toss me a link? 2) Does the...

I'd say that it mirrors the political discussions because it very much is one, however much Vig tried to steer it away from that. I apologize for getting heated, Crothian. This is something that is close enough to my family that I have a great deal of trouble remaining calm when certain things...

Really? Does this look at all familiar? Please explain to me how that statement implies that you have no opinion for or against. If you want to backpedal, backpedal. But please don't pretend that you came into this looking for an open exchange of ideas. Really? Does this look at all...

No. Your ignorance of the culture means that you are ignorant of the culture. Mind you, I'm just judging your knowledge or ignorance of the culture based on what you write. I don't have anything else to go by. If you'd like to write something that demonstrates that you are not ignorant of the...

Your skin color doesn't preclude you from having a valid opinion. Your ignorance does. Yes, if you want to feel persecuted and you need somebody to say it to your face: because you are ignorant of the culture, I believe that your opinion of this culturally specific matter counts less than other...