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Well, my combat heavy Street Fighter meets Final Fight game (coming soon to a story hour near you!) has been going well with the Thrash system. But Thrash is horribly horribly broken. No balance, and the rules aren't fully explained. And combat takes forever. But it is free and a heck of a good...

I agree with Henry. From personal experience the two of my players who took time DMing both became better players after doing so. And there's one thing that we all agree on: Biting the hook. For all those DM's out there, remember the time when you setup some cool stuff to happen, and the players...

From what I've found, the object of the game varies from person to person. For me, as a player, the object of the game is to be of a degree of importance to the world huge levels of magnitude beyond what I am in real life. I want to be important. For me as a DM, it's to bring fun to a group of...

"Huh? Why would talking to someone who I believe is fictual be hypocritical?" Daniel shakes his head. "And maybe 'assumption' is too strong of a word, but to point out an internal logic error, you do need to follow the logic from the beginning. And I still don't see how a debate about the basic...

"Again, take the simple fact that you're still starting from some basic point. With solipsism as an example, you don't know that you can't know if anything is real. That's where pereference comes in. From a pure logical standpoint, you can say wahtever you want, given the right starting premise...

"So, maybe I'm just misunderstanding 'nihilism', but how does determinism lead into it. And besides, I'm still stuck where you stated that you can have a philosophical discussion without people's personal wants coming into it. At some point, you either have to just accept someone else's 'what...

First, from a "Logic" standpoint, no, I can't think of a reason that anyone who can read scrolls can't figure out any spell that can be scribed on a scroll. Maybe spell types require different types of energy or something. It'd be more arguable if there was some more basis for how magic worked...

Daniel looks at the book momentarially. "Well, if we're supposed to have trouble reading in dreams, then that test fails. Looks just fine to me." He nods before resuming speaking with Thomas. "But aren't most philosophical theories based off of what 'feels right' to begin with? At some point...

Heh heh. As a player I've had two major brushes with House Rules (three, if you count the one game that was home made). In both cases I was a pain about it. The first was a situation where we needed to wake up because a battle was going. So the DM had us do a Listen Check vs a Fort Save. If the...

"Sorry," Daniel says. While not hostile, he doesn't sound like he's sorry for his actons. "But this is a discussion we've had before. And we came to the exact same conclusion. There's just as much proof for this being a dream as there is for this being reality collapsing. So treat it as if it's...

In addition to the ones above (all great) add the Liberators of Tenh, and The Risen Goddess. I love (contact)'s work.

Daniel shakes his head. "I'm not even going to show you the holes in your basic idea. But, let's go along with what you're saying. So, when was the last person we saw speak Russian? Or anything other than english? What was the last word you read?" He begins to speak a little faster and more...

So, you're saying that you don't like multi-classing, or don't like people who are good at offence/damage?

Again, I rather like that the classes are based per attribute. However, you don't need to have a high strength score to be a strong hero (the attribute isn't defining). Rather, it's a bit more of a style thing. A strong hero is a guy who is good at all around knocking the crap out of things or...

It depends. Each has their place. In one fantasy campaign I'm working on, classes will be based off of D20 Modern. Everyone's a kid from the same village. They aren't trained as fighters, or rogues, or rangers. They're just THEM. Magic is pretty rare (never been seen in the village), and most...

If you mean, did I decide "Well, the dwarf is in the middle of the room, and is the only lone target. He makes the most sense for the orcs to surround and take down." Then yes, I did conciously make a decision that lead to the death of a character. If you mean "Ok, I'm sick of that sorcerer...

Two points: 1. This reminds me of a debate I got into with a friend about magic items in the Lord of The Rings movies. I insisted that all their stuff was magic, he insisted that it wasn't. It was fun, I just kept pointing out stuff that they would have likely picked up to enhance their...

I was wondering why I was siding with the player instead of the DM. We didn't have the juicy details. It sounds a lot more like this is just another drop in the bucket instead of his first mistake (as I read it before). IF this sort of thing is pretty common then he does need to be shown to be...

I got a good one a couple of weeks ago. I havn't been DMing for a while now, and I have a notebook of "Random campaign ideas." In the midst of a conversation about one of the more offbeat ones, one of my players looks at me and says. "Well, I'd play it. I trust your work."

Aaaah, paladins. Nothing seems to bring up player-DM discord quite so well. I would definately NOT take his Paladinhood in one fell swoop. Give him a warning, yes. Cut the effects of all spells by 50%, maybe. But I would not destroy his character in one fell swoop. As a sensitive sort of...