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I definitely disagree here. One of my players have used Gather Information to spread rumors about something that they want everyone to think happened. This is very useful. Frequently, there are things in the campaign world that they would not know without Gather Information (like, who's the...

No more non-d20... I bought Nobilis and Blue Planet over the last couple of years, and regretted it. I'm never going to play those games, and games make terrible reading material. I need to eBay these items to make room for great game material that I will actually use, like Rappan Athuk and...

Tell me about it! You'd think that for $120, they would give us 2 poster maps so you wouldn't have to flip them! It's supposed to be Deluxe!!!

I wouldn't care either. :) As you say, the .pdf isn't going to reduce any possible resale value of the collectible version. The numbered version is just fine! Maybe I'll make it to the con one of these days when Bill & Clark are there and get it signed... Can't do that with a .pdf!

#262 courtesy of Amazon.com

I'd like to know how many people who had faith in Amazon.com lost out. I got mine for $22.04 (with free 2-day shipping, natch). It seemed like most of us who pre-ordered from Amazon.com also got ours before many of those who ordered from WW. It seems to me that it was those who believed you that...

Rappan Athuk Boxed Set from Amazon.com showed up! It is very much as they specified. It looks good from the outside (will wait till I get home to open it), but it's definitely nothing like Ptolus. Ptolus looked and felt like it was worth the $120 that was charged. This package definitely feels...

I bought it with the intention of looking at it, and ebaying it if I didn't like it, knowing that I wouldn't lose any money by doing this (and would probably make money). If it's really good I'll probably keep it. :) I have to see if it's usable in my Ptolus campaign... :)

Amazon.com ships RAR! I just got my notification that my copy of RAR has shipped from Amazon.com, with a price of $22.04. Since I have 2-day delivery, I'll let everyone know on Friday whether it's the real deal. (I wasn't dying to have it, but for the price, I couldn't resist, knowing that I...

The Forgotten Realms is just a sitting. None of the dungeons, crypts, tombs, etc. in the area are fleshed out. Ptolus has several chapters worth of site-based adventures just sitting there, waiting to be used. Some of them are incredibly high level, which as you probably know, means that the...

Me too! I buy from the cheapest source, period. The only exception was Ptolus, which I got as a Christmas present. Other than that, if it's not Amazon, it's eBay. I'm a firm believer in low costs. I don't fly business class or first class when I go on vacation either (and that's a luxury good...

#273 showed up... ... in Mountain View, CA.

No it didn't. You had fighters come up and bash at each other. No maneuvering, no flanking, and backstabbing was vague and ambiguous with lots of "mother may I" rulings. Ultimately, it wasn't nearly as satisfying as 3E combat is right now. Flanking, tumbling, bull-rushing, casting on the...

Remember, the average player has an Int of 10. That means 50% have an int of 8 or less, to compensate for the ones with int 14, 16, and 18, of which there seem to be quite a few. While it is only a DC 11 to understand the rules, an int of 8 means that they can't take 10, and will fail to...

Typo on the second page Following the stairs down take the players direction to level 10. direction should be "directly", I assume. Typos like this are annoying, especially when all I did was glance at it. I guess this gets struck off my "buy" list unless they hire Crothian as a proof-reader...

Quoted for Truth. I think Rasyr is just bitter that his products didn't get nominated. I can just imagine his ire next year if (for example) Ptolus swept all the awards.

The #1 thing that makes campaigns interesting to me... ... is prepublished adventures. As far as I'm concerned, the setting is just a backdrop for things to happen in. The adventures are what I care about. If a campaign setting has good adventure support, I'll consider using it (hence Greyhawk...

All it takes is a simple change... ... a change in attitude. Whenever possible, find ways to say "Yes" to player requests rather than defaulting to "no." Learn to use tricks against PCs, and put together encounters where they HAVE to use their magic items. And don't pull your punches. This will...

That's not true. I do that all the time. In my latest campaigns, I'm giving folks a choice: 4d6 drop lowest, or 25 point buy. The two options are balanced enough that different folks choose differently. Those who believe the dice do well for them choose 4d6 (for some the bets pay off, for others...

It's called Unearthed Arcana Unearthed Arcana introduced the "Craft Points" system which does exactly this. The rules state that you can use craft points to substitute for time, but what I'm doing is running a time-constrained campaign, where effectively craft points are the only way to create...