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I like the slot system. I created a number of ship-specific magical items during one of my campaigns. Don't forget things like sail enhancements (more speed, fireproofing, weatherproofing), magical wheels or rudders, and things like enchanted cargo holds. Something as simple as keeping the...

I have run several heavily ship based campaigns. There are a number of things I found lacking in many of the books. To entice me into buying this book, I would suggest making sure you cover the following: 1) Include player magic in the rules completely. Too often naval combat for D&D seems...

See, I think you're dead wrong there. Only if 5th edition succeeds will there will be a 6th edition. If 5th edition fails -- which to me means loses money or makes so little that Hasbro finally cuts D&D -- then there will be no more editions and no more books from WoTC. (Someone else could...

I don't know of any charts specifically. Overall, I think it depends on the type of NPC and the situation you're having the players find them in. A goblin raider who cannot trust his fellows not to steal his money and who doesn't have a good hideyhole laid out somewhere -- everything is on...

A good find. I like to see D&D in the news without it being either bashing the game or completely misunderstand it.

How easy depends on the game. I routinely create sheets with information for players who are new to the game (or the whole group for a new system). Those often focus on important charts they need regularly, which usually means combat charts. In some systems, I put in step-by-step for...

Remember that every die you roll, every number you add, every bit of math you add extends not just the complexity of the game but also the time a single action takes. It also does not do it in a pure one to one ratio either. The difference in speed is smaller between between 1d20 and 1d20+#...

Play board games for a while. Then try something completely different for a one-shot or short run. There are systems out there which are cheap or free, so you don't have to waste money on something you'll only use once. After that, see where things go with the group. People change over...

As I stated above, when I first started gaming, D&D was the only game in town. I still love D&D because it's swords and sorcerers gaming. I love high fantasy. That's why I play D&D. I've tried a number of other fantasy games over the years to try and get the same fun going. They've all...

Clearly, OGL is going to be a popular topic on this subforum. :) Rather than re-post the detailed answer on the subject of OGL I just posted in another thread, I'll just link it: http://www.enworld.org/forum/new-horizons/316126-legends-lore-charting-course-d-d-2.html#post5770046

From a purely corporate perspective, OGL leads to brand dilution and loss of profits as the limited gamer budget goes to other companies. As a gamer, I loved the variety of products that came out for 3.5 using the OGL. As a business owner, I look at some of the absolute garbage that was...

For what they are, I think the gaming books are probably reasonably fairly priced. However, I won't buy them for what they are. I don't need all the artwork and color pages and special paper and whatever else goes into them. I'm perfectly happy with the older style of books. As someone...

In college I had a fighter-type who carried a blade that had been passed down through his family. It wasn't magical, just a sword with story. I may have paid extra to make it fancier. (This was before masterwork.) I missed a session and when I came back the sword was shattered because the GM...

In a gaming group I used to play in years ago, the hardest thing in character creation was coming up with a name. We played a lot of one-shots and sometimes it took longer to come up with names than to make the rest of the character. So, for one shot I started out with telling them that all of...

Sorry, I forgot to report the party in my game ending up with four out of five PCs dead on December 30th. Evil game, which I knew would go badly at some point. The personalities have been coming to a head in the past month. They are all playing feudal lords holding and expanding lands in a...

I think this is an apples to oranges comparison because you're forgetting that Rick and the PCs are different that the rest of the people involved. Trying not to go too far out into improper forum discussion, but simply put many human beings are basically sheep. We as a species regularly...

That's an interesting product that could make me buy another physical product from Paizo. (As opposed to PDFs. I have the core book and GM screen in physical, but while our play group has just about everything in at least one hardback, I'm buying all of my books as PDFs because they're very...

To be fair, someone in the comics has thrown a person to the zombies in order to escape a place. The people doing the throwing are generally the bad guys, though I can think of one case where someone left a really, really bad person to get eaten rather than just killing them. The point that...

I very strongly disagree with your defining this as railroading. Setting up the game that is going to be played, the genre and setting, the style of game, the characters allowed is all part of what a GM does when pitching a new game. That's not railroading, that's simply the starting point...

While I believe that balance is of critical importance, one thing to keep in mind is that balance isn't just about the system; the GM plays a very big role in balance themselves. Sometimes you have to look at created character and just say, "The balance on this is broken." If the character is...