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Needs more options. I've never subscribed to any of the periodicals, but I bought every single issue of Dragon and Dungeon that I could. I then bought every single issue of the Pathfinder APs. And Kobold Quarterly.

Human fighters can. 1 bonus skill point every level as a human, 1 bonus skill point for each level in a favored class. Non-human fighters fall one short, but if they're going for Combat Expertise, their INT picks up the difference. Also, jump is now Acrobatics, so a fighter taking that gets...

I miss Engineering An Empire. And Cities of the Underworld. All the good stuff is on History International now, and I worry how long it will be before that goes the way of MTV2. And Fuse. TCM really is the only channel that hasn't decayed, huh?

Now I'm not one to knee-jerk about sex being used to sell products, but... :erm: I like to think they were intentionally going for Over-The-Top, but if it just happened naturally... I mean, it's not even titillating. It's more "Hahaha! Oh wow!"

Ascribe to the "Chesty" Puller school of strategy, eh? "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us. They can't get away this time.""

Short aside: It took me over a year to get it through my head that the Allip's babble ability should be portrayed as scary and disconcerting and not simply going "BABBLEBABBLEBABBLEBABBLE" while flailing their 'arms' around. Babble is just an inherently goofy word.

Eh, I didn't have any innocence to lose. As a grizzled survivor of multiple console and PC platform wars, the 3.x VS 4E war didn't really show me anything new except that it clearly sank the conceit that tabletop gamers are as a whole more civil and less prone to falling into savagery than...

It depends. Is this the first time he's tried to grapple one? And has he seen it move through anything?

The unholy trinity of bad RPGs: F.A.T.A.L., RaHoWa, and Hybrid Wraith. I enjoy "dark" sometimes. I don't enjoy "absolutely bleak and hopeless". Wraeththu. I still laugh/cry when I remember this game exists. Aggressively offensive to both straight and gay men, as well as any woman who isn't a...

Forgive the artgeeking, but: I have to admit, she doesn't look very interesting or fun to play. She on the other hand... ;)

YES. Heck, watch Taken. Having something besides yourself that your character is (dangerously) protective of will go a long way towards humanizing him.

I'm not a big fan of putting it in the context of a negative towards another system, but: (systems played and enjoyed in the past year) 3.5 Pathfinder Savage Worlds Conan RPG Lot5R Werewollf: the Forsaken Serenity Scion All Flesh Must Be Eaten Call of Cthulhu Spirit of the Century Shadowrun...

I'm half-asleep so if I ramble aimlessly, please forgive. I've only played one evil character before(in a Conan game set in Stygia, and he was enjoyable even if I want to see him get punished for his deeds), but the one rule I would say you have to have to keep a party functional, regardless...

Congrats! Also, DAMN! It's a bit humbling, is all...

Looking that up now. I've only used a whale corpse as a lair before, and they don't really lend themselves to non-linear maps...

"We eat what we like!" As said, sometimes it's the exotic appeal. A LOT of the non-standards appeal to me for different reasons. I still want to play a tiefling paladin in 3.X because I loved tieflings(and aasimar) in Planescape and I never got a chance to play that character in 2E. And I...

Well there was "Unnecessary symmetry, ugly backstory, yaddayadda" too now. Personally I'm with the crowd that says "old school" shouldn't be too strongly defined because it simply can't. Videogamers can't agree on what old-school is exactly, RPGers sure as hell aren't going to be able too...

I remember this lovely method of transportation from the Ravenloft supplement Von Richten's Guide to Fiends. Basically it explained how fiends made their way into Ravenloft by slowly switching physical places with a mortal. Said mortal would show varying changes in behavior and appearance...

So did you or :cool:

I just hope this whole fracas doesn't wind up wandering over towards the Rift.