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I've never been to Boston, nor has Eeralai, and obviously our kids haven't either. So earlier this year, we decided we would take a family vacation up into the New England area of the country. After planning and looking around for places to stay and all that, we ended up with reservations in...

As a consumer, I would be interested in knowing. If I am buying product that is lining somebody's pocket while contract work is not being paid, then I have no interest in buying the product. Of course, it could be that nobody is buying the product and the loss of non-existent sales won't mean...

You know, writing these things is a heck of a challenge! Judging is a very different challenge. Writing has rewards because once you have beat yourself to a pulp with the stress of writing the story, you have something you can look back on with some source of pride. I fully believe that...

Arwink hits it here for me. Everybody involved has to have a certain level of synchronization and investment into the game. Without that, the energy invested just starts to feel too much like work.

No worries, my interest had nothing to do with retro. It had everything to do with aliens, spaceships, blasters and sci-fi/space opera goodness. :)

It sounds like a fun setting! If nothing else, I need to have it so I can run games for my son.

Sounds like this is going to rock! Is it still on target for the end of May? If so, then I probably won't be able to get it right away. :( I will be on vacation - which is good in a different way. :)

Annoying, to be sure. Common courtesy dictates that you give people notice. If for no other reason than to stop any concern. When I have a player that is MIA, I worry that maybe they have been in an accident or something. Usually, we can call and locate the person. Almost always they are...

This is one of the big steps backward that is really bothersome. Sure, WotC would be "stupid" to go after fan sites. That is the conventional wisdom. It is probably even safe to assume that they won't. But the fact of the matter is that they could. With the OGL, there was a way to...

I would suggest that the first volunteer is head judge. I was actually chatting with Maldur earlier today and I am pretty sure he doesn't want to do it. I can help in any way that you guys want, or not at all. I simply volunteered to help keep the momentum going in the thread while we were...

But you do have the inaugural post in the thread. You are the one that will need to edit your post, unless a new thread is started. :) I can dig it though. Just trying to help jumpstart everything. If nothing else, bracket selection allows focused smack talk. :D To the judges - I have a...

I am sending out a message to see if I can drum up another Judge. If you guys would like though, I will be happy to set up a bracket real quick. I could even pick out pictures for you, if that really is a sticking point. Rodrigo, let me know - in channel or out of channel.

Yeah, having an end without any reward is going to be frustrating for a one-shot. Though, you could go the D&D path and have the end geared up for the TPK. Then if they still get the villain, and escape with their lives, the reward is doubly sweet.

This was one of the more interesting moments in the campaign from my perspective. I could knock on Eeralai on the lack of description for Caradec, because I went to a lot of effort to describe Caradec! Dragonskin belt, specific aspects of his holy symbol, all that sort of thing. But let's be...

Feng Shui is a blast! If you decide to go that route, and haven't had much experience with it, I offer bit of caution: Named characters are tough - both PC and NPC. Be careful with how you use them. If you don't intend for that scene to bog down and take a long time, use unnamed characters...

I have! But I have been noticing it for a long time. There are a lot of styles of threads that I do miss that seem to have disappeared as certain posters have moved off the site, or become even more busy in RL. I do think that it will become a lot more lively once the new edition is...

In the back of my mind, there was something bothering me. I let it sit so I could ponder it a bit. Now, I think I can contribute to the conversation without being incendiary. There are a number of games that dropped their systems in favor of adopting d20/OGL. This wasn't because they...

Well, some of us are idealists. :) I agree, this is a step back grom Open Gaming. But it does continue easily licensed third party support. And for this I am happy. I suspect there will terms in the GSL that I will be less than thrilled with, but I can accept that WotC probably should have...

Can you elucidate? I have been out of the book trade for a while (over 11 years), but when I hear product line, I think in somewhat broad terms. For example, Fantasy Flight Games had the Legends & Lairs product line. As a hypothetical example, they could choose to remove the d20 branding...

I don't think people are trying to find ways to maliciously subvert the license. It is more an attempt at understanding exactly what the license entails and trying to anticipate some of the ripple effects. The problem is that we don't have enough information to understand the details because...