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Well, you can't market something new with, "Look, it's exactly the same as the old thing!" I don't think there's a lot of mileage in that one line. Yeah, I know there's no "fun equation." But I do know that I, personally, have more fun in 3rd Edition than I did in the game I played of 2nd Ed...

So you're saying that they said that 3rd Edition was engineered to be more fun? They wanted to make a game that was fun? A game that would be enjoyable for those who played it? I'm really not seeing the problem. I'm really bad at first-person shooters. I don't buy Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 and...

At this exact moment, the piano version of Final Fantasy 8's "Shuffle or Boogie," the card game theme music (if I'm remembering titles right -- my iPod Shuffle doesn't list titles). It's in my gaming music playlist, which is nothing but wordless music and soundtracks.

I picked mine up at a yard sale two years ago for $20. It works, and had Pac-Man and Combat. We've got a chain of stores called Vintage Stock out here that are -covered- in old games, so I'm slowly building a solid library up. It's the silly wood paneling on the Atari that really gets me...

Hah! Now my Atari is callng me...

Another Final Fantasy VIII supporter! Actually, I've only ever known Final Fantasy VIII supporters -- everyone I know that's played it (granted, that's about ten people in the area, not people online) have adored it. It's my favorite, and largely because of the love story.

I tend to stick to rock or intelligent pop. I am a huge Sting fan, own every album and most of the B-sides. I like my required number of current bands (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, Franz Ferdinand), I dislike the required number of current bands to keep an indie cred (Coldplay, Papa...

I picked up a set of gold-painted dice from 31st Century Games in Olathe, KS, a couple of months ago to serve as my DM dice. I've never really even thought of buying dice online; they strike me as something you buy in person.

Oh, that's right. * Trash Talker. Trashy is an homage to a past player of mine who played a surly chain-smoking hateful Nosferatu in a Vampire: The Masquerade game back in high school. Trashy hated everything and everyone but ended up doing the right thing all the time, just yelling and...

I run a Final Fantasy game in the style of 7 and 8 (modern fantasy more than classic fantasy), and the monsters I was most proud of were my bio-mechanical insectoid Ruby Weapon scouts. The Adarmantula, an armored-plated massive tarantula (name from the classic FF monster Adamantoise &...

Started my last two campaigns at level 3. Stat boost in the future, just gotten that next feat so the character's taking on their signature style, enough HP to take chances but not so much where they'll headbutt dragons or something.

Hmm. I always have: * Rapidly Escalating Battles. I'm coming up on one now, where the party plans on accomplishing Goal A, only Enemies B and C are also planning to execute their goals at the same time, whereas Enemy D and Helpful Group E will be battling to accomplish a different goal yet the...

I've done romance in my game; one player (who is functionally immortal, but does not remember his past, like The Nameless One from Planescape: Torment) has a past love whose death he is responsible for, and he's just finding all the details out now. Another player has a relationship with an NPC...

I have not played in a game in what feels like forever, but I can chime in on the shocking of players, because a few months ago, I got to shock two of them in as great a way as I ever have. In my Final Fantasy game, I had a subplot going with a man named Eidel, who apparently was hiring bounty...

Nobody on mine, but seeing as I read a heck of a lot more than I post, I really can't cause any harm.

Final Fantasy VIII's gunblade was an awesome weapon. Sure, it's about as usable as a rat-flail, but hey, it looked awesome and was a neat idea. I also have a soft spot for the Ratchet & Clank gun that turns the enemies into sheep. I'm not fighting evil, I'm collecting the most adorable army ever!

While it's not a strictly spelled-out theme, the Final Fantasy game I'm running now has developed a "United we stand, divided we fall" feel. Originally there was a very, very high level of mistrust between the party members; never outright blows or anything, but more than one in-character...

We tend to stick to snack-type foods, like Doritos, Triscuits, Cheez-Its, and soda for actual gaming, and then hit somewhere like Applebee's after the session's out. We've done stuff like homemade pizza before, though.

One player in my game plays Kogel, a gunman from an island burned by the Donnerich Navy thirteen years ago, and Kogel is the sole survivor, having fled the island the day before at the age of eight thanks to his mother. The island was just home to a tiny fishing village, and its existence was...

1) Why do you create your own settings? 2) Why do you use your own homebrew settings rather than using a published one? 3) Am I still homebrewing if I'm borrowing elements from other settings? 4) If your homebrew setting is so vanilla that it's practically indistinguisable from hoardes of other...