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Wow, way to take the high road on that, PC.

Available supply makes a big difference. Cheap, plentiful resources are not interesting, and the party is always assumed to have enough. However, if you are going on an expedition to uncertain lands (deep in the desert, into the swamp, the Underdark, the Forbidden Jungle), I like to have the...

Played in an Amber game once, where the DM kept getting us into impossible situations and would use Gerard or Julian, even Caine once, to get us out. There was also a D&D campaign where we were the servants of Baron Munchausen, and while we were expecting to be overshadowed by the Baron, he...

Has anyone ever tried just using hexes with the RAW? Other than the oft-mentioned difficulty with mapmaking, and a 6-on-1 limit vs an 8-on-1 limit, what's to keep you from just making the switch?

I think the strategy makes sense for the old settings. 1) FR - I am the target market for the 100 year jump/spellplague. I never bought a FR book in my 25 year gaming history, and I wasn't about to try bearing the weight of that setting. However, I did buy the 4e books. I still probably...

I actually think $20/gallon gas will bring us a restoration of the town center, as a distribution model becomes more transportation-efficient than a "ship everything anywhere" model. At least for items that cannot be produced locally or sent digitally. A properly configured FLGS would thrive...

QFT. If I found myself laid off for 20 months like I was in 2001-2002, spending my 12 hours of free time a day on WoW or LotR Online would be veeery tempting, whereas back then I threw myself into movies and a couple of 3e campaigns.

I'm not real fond of 3pp character books - my experience from 3e was generally poor and soured me on the concept, mostly on balance issues. I'd like to see settings, NPC's, monsters, traps, and other cool ideas to crib from. I thought Scarred Lands was great, and would love to see a conversion.

Not upset. I'll change the alignment if I need to. If their powers were all based on making bunnies fluffy and instilling warmth in the hearts of children everywhere, I might start off irritated, but then start thinking about ways to make that horribly, twistedly evil...

I still don't care for high-level play, so limits are irrelevant to me except for providing a better sense of absolute scale. In that sense I like them. I don't really benefit from materials aimed at going beyond-30, but I am not opposed to them existing. That is, unless they divert attention...

I'm changing them to "Baleful Perineum"

Hmm. I'm American and I can't even muster a snicker. I even live in a college town. I could blame it on age, but I confess I can't recall ever needing a cool slang name for the perineum. Does it come up in conversation a lot?

I guess what it comes down to is "know thy player". I generally wouldn't do something like that unless I thought the player would run with it. I've done similar things with great results for the players who like dealing with challenging roleplaying scenarios. If a player surprised me and...

As a player, I wouldn't mind it, provided the DM has a good, entertaining idea. I don't mind a bit of railroading if it takes the game in a good direction and everything remains fun. The ability to affect outcomes is crucial, of course, but a nice paradigm shift in-game is not bad if executed...

In Shadowrun, the playable races were Human, Dwarf, Elf (tall ones), Orc and Troll. Trolls were a lot more popular than Orcs - why? Bigger. People like to play big things. All of the Orc characters I saw created were actually sophisticated since it was a bit easier to envision the gentleman...

I don't need my dragons to be tagged with a good or evil descriptor. I need stats for different kinds of dragons that I can make good, neutral or evil at my discretion. My players encountered three metallics in two different 3e campaigns. One Gold was a puzzle maker, who was rather insistent...

I'd have preferred Heart! If they can drop Ki, will they also drop Elemental? That seems even more untenable, or at least I still haven't heard a really good description of the power source that couldn't easily be described as an aspect of Arcane or Primal. So we go Psionic, Shadow and then...

And thus, unfortunately, completely unverifiable. Good thing it's just a gentleman's wager...

I'll stand up for positivism, and hold on to the hope that hating D&D and continually writing about that sentiment will eventually get boring. I am Barcode.

Similar experience, but going back to 3.5 even. The owner of my FLGS knows bupkis about RPG's (he is a model train guy) - I went in to ask whether he had Monster Manual V in during the week it was due. He says he doesn't know, calls over his "RPG Expert" who proceeds to go on a conspiracy...