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I voted "serious", but I consider myself to be partly "serious" and partly "hardcore". I don't have or want a dedicated gaming room, but I certainly consider gaming one of my primary hobbies. I have a pretty sizeable collection of games and supplements, though it's more like "dozens" than...

I think a cartoon would be the wrong direction for any kind of D&D license. The pressures on shortform animation are towards either off-the-wall adult humour (Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force) or towards kids' fare (Ben 10). Not that a D&D cartoon modelled on Venture Brothers would be a...

The ENnies have never had any effect whatsoever on my purchasing decisions, or even my "I'll check this out" decisions. Even though I voted this year in the few categories where I had an opinion, when it comes to their impact on me as a consumer they might as well never happen at all.

I should add that I feel the same way about my "favourite" characters in novels, television series, or other media. When I get excited while reading a book it's not when a character succeeds at something, it's when they say or do something which clues me in that some awesome, entertaining...

Nice false dichotomy you got, there. In all seriousness: I look at my PCs as my way of participating in the story of the game. Some of my characters pursue goals I would never pursue myself - in fact, a few have pursued goals of which I would disapprove in real life. Some of my characters have...

I honestly don't think it matters if the official forums are down for a week or two. It's not like the reason they're so popular - i.e., they're official - is going to go away.

Half-elves in Eberron are called "Khoravar" because they never existed before elves from the continent of Aerenal and humans from the continent of Sarlona met and mingled on the continent of Khorvaire. There's actually a strain of "we are the true children of Khorvaire" thinking running through...

Mmm, sort of. When Fourth Edition first came out, I looked at how I might recreate my longest-running Third Edition character, who was a sorcerer/alienist who summoned Far Realm creatures in a Planescape campaign. Obviously, we didn't have a sorcerer class and no summoning when the game first...

I live in Australia. I don't mind people drinking during a game, as long as they don't get drunk. Easy.

Elsewhere, too; we generally have 750mL bottles of alcohol in Australia. ("Coincidentally", soft drink is sold in 375mL cans. Hmmmmmmm.)

"Related music" would be like a soundtrack for the game. That definitely has its place. By "unrelated music", I mean like if someone's just playing an album they like, which is just as distracting as if the TV were on. It's a wildly disproportionate response, if you ask me. I believe you that...

My friends don't have a ban on alcohol and gaming, it just rarely happens. Honestly, it's never been practical for everyone to drink - even in my current game, with my wife and I living where the game happens and another player living about ten minutes' walk away, we still have plenty of people...

It's ludicrous because it wholly mischaracterises the problem as "romantic relationships", rather than the much more correct "people who can't keep their personal problems from interfering with the game". The smoker player I mentioned no longer plays in my game because he broke up with his...

I had one player in the game I run who smokes (though he is no longer in the game) - he stepped out onto the balcony of our apartment, which is just off the living room in which we play anyway, and smoked there. No problem. No-one usually drinks, but the last session involved one player...

Sure, but I don't think it's comparable. First of all, warforged are a classic PC race. I'm sure there are PC rules for at least some draconians in at least the Margaret Weis Productions Third Edition material, but the better comparison would be to a Dragonlance-only race like, say, the kender...

I usually start by picking a class, a choice which is usually influenced either by what would fit in well with the group or by what I've wanted to play for a while. The next step is picking a race, which is almost entirely determined by what would be interesting in the context of the group or...

Since you aren't at all interested in the game or in the subscription, why is it any more obnoxious than any other thread you're not interested in checking out based on the title - and why do you imagine your personal preferences have any effect on the matter?

I like Keith Baker's Dreaming Dark trilogy - though it must be said that each book he's written has been better and more polished than the last, so after reading Queen of Stone you may find City of Towers a little rough. Still, Keith has the benefit of having invented the setting, and his focus...

The whole continent of Xen'drik is left somewhat undefined - Secrets of Xen'drik, rather than describing the continent, presented discrete sites, encounters, and adventure hooks which could be placed virtually anywhere on the continent that had the right population or geography. That vast...

I can't really decide which I like best - but I will say that, as unimpressive as some of the material in Races of Eberron was, the chapter on kalashtar (written by Keith Baker) was very, very good.