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As evilbob mentioned, I think you're confusing game rules with the game itself. The two are not the same. The rules are there to artificially delineate skill, knowledge, and power progression for a game. Levels, classes and feats are not part of the setting itself. Seriously, other than in...

The wife and I discussed this, and decided that Bennett didn't know the "system" was a kid. He only knows "they just find you". Probably (assuming they actually get to that point) he'll balk when he realizes she's a super. Mutant. X. Whatevs. We discussed that, too, and came pretty much to the...

Interesting.

I'm confused. You hate artificial limitations, yet you want to artificially limit your players. XP costs were put into the D&D rules to artificially limit players. In your example (which I didn't quote) you complained of Druids Awakening an entire forest. Why not? It could actually make for an...

That would, of course, be the simplest thing to do. :)

No, I totally caught that. If you are not familiar with the Artificer class in Eberron, an Artificer gets a certain amount of "craft reserve" points every level. They are not XP, but special points that can be used, like XP, toward the XP cost for crafting an item. Because you do not have XP...

Why not do something the Eberron Artificer did and allow a "pool" of XP that every character has and can use for any purpose that might require XP (i..e magic item creation and/or powerful spellcasting). An example might be 10% of the experience points normally required to attain their most...

This is ironic thread necromancy: I just recently started playing Pirates! again. Not because of the movie (I didn't get to see the second one, so I'm not too excited about the third); I mostly fired it up because my son wanted to watch me play it. But I got drawn back in. Damn stuff is like...

My issues isn't so much laziness as it is that the movies just aren't all that good. The characters were barely 2-dimensional, the dialog was boring, and the plot stale. Yes, it had some fun action, and Pai Mei gave me a chuckle or two, but that's not good enough for me to call the movie "good"...

I'd just like to point out that the Firebolt is faster than the Nimbus 2000, and that IIRC, the Nimbus 3000 does not exist (except in fanfic).

Hmm... I have to disagree, here. I thought CTHD was an amazing movie. What, specifically, did you dislike about it?

I have to agree with the original post. You can do a spoof of bad Kung Fu movies and still be a good movie. Take, for example, Kung Fu Hustle. Kung Fu Hustle was an over-the-top spoof of Kung Fu with a fairly derived plot, yet it still had amazing character development and spectacular special...

"No, I'm not done with you yet"

You know, I'd forgotten about that. I blame a month of not watching Heroes. :)

I agree: it's not just D&D folk who wonder why Mohinder didn't take out Sylar. I think the fact that so many wonder this is a reflection of the moral compass of our society. For some reason we think it's OK to murder a murderer. Mohinder just happens to have a better sense of what is and is...

That's an interesting theory. Allow me to counter it: Sylar is simply not as good an artist as Isaac is. His painting looks about as good a a sixth-grader could make because that's the extent of his painting talent. Sylar can *see* the future, just like Peter and Isaac. He just sucks at...

It actually gets much better after the first few chapters. :)

Wow.... looks pretty good.

I only just now noticed this post: Wow... Keith Baker, I presume? That'll teach me to spout off online; you never know when you'll actually get answered! Look, please take what I said with a hefty piece of salt. I actually very much enjoy Eberron as a gaming setting, especially Sharn and...

You know... the next Harry Potter book comes out in July. If you haven't read the series, give it a go now so you can get caught up. Just sayin'