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Study mention time. I don't have the citation but the relevant details should be googalable should anyone desire. Researchers invited people in for an experiment. They were told there was a problem and they had to wait in the waiting room for about five minutes. The people engaged in small...

If male spiders could make signs you better believe they'd be demonstrating against this whole getting eaten after sex thing. :p

Christ, I am not calling you sexist. Saying sexism is only the belief that one sex is superior is just a poor definition. Enforcing gender roles is sexist too. Which is not what you're doing when you talk about an existing strength gap between genders. But if someone (nobody in this...

That's not remotely what my post said. Those physical differences exist. They exist because of sexism. If you jettison our species history of sexism then you can jettison the physical differences and maintain realism.

The solution to this debate is really pretty simple. If the D&D world in question has a long entrenched history of sexism like ours does, then gender differences would exist. If the D&D world had simply never come up with sexism (there are orcs to discriminate against after all!) then there...

Cutscenes are great, but another way you can show the divide between epic and other tiers is to throw the characters into situations involving lower tier people. That level 1-5 noble who's been siphoning gold out of the treasury. When the character makes an insight check on him they don't...

Here's what I suggest. 1. Let the players play their characters without interference. 2. Have the world react in a realistic way What's probably the real root of the problem: You want to run a game with consistent characterization. Possibly deep and wonderful characterization. Your...

Guide, Mercenary, Sage and Spy all strike me as having quite reasonable epic members although suitably rare as the article mentions. Also, having just read the faith and heresy article all the examples that come to mind are of a religious bent... But imagine hiring an exalted servant of...

I absolutely do not think that 4e is less simulationist. The difference between 4e and 3.5 in this regard that people keep referring to as simulation, is whether the presented options are character options or player options, at least for martial characters. A 4e character slugs it out in...

Tonight you sleep in Hell. Deck of Many Things This adventure is pretty Tomb of Horrors like.

If the defender was easy to kill then he wouldn't be fulfilling his role. Primarily, making the party sweat involves hitting the other party members and the defender not being able to take everything. When attacks ping off his AC, you aren't losing, you're winning. The player invested in...

If gender roles were really genetically based then there wouldn't need to be so much social and physical pressure spent enforcing them. They would also show up regardless of culture. I myself have never played in a gaming group with out at least one woman in it. I've seen 2 out of 5, 3 out of...

I think the biggest issue with minions is that the XP budget for them is laughably off. I generally take the base number and multiply by 3-5. So instead of having four or eight minions you get a lot more. Now that's not always practical to have that many minions, so if I want just a few (less...

To get simulationist, to get that sort of range you need rifling and precise, machine produced parts. I don't know what technology level Zeitgeist has, but if it's say 18th instead of 19th century then you'd be looking at drastically reduced range at which you could effectively aim and shoot a...

I implemented this in my game and I really liked the effect it produced, rituals seemed more natural and were used more. Ritual Caster got changed for anybody who had it already or wanted to get it into: Ritual Caster: Prereq: Arcana, Religion or Nature trained. You can learn and cast rituals...

Standard advice: 1. Understand your players. You need to figure out what sort of things they like in a game, what motivates their characters, how they tend to act. 2. Build adventures organically. Work off your players motivations, work through how the situation came about before the...

So generally, most dice will alternate high and low numbers on adjacent faces, this means that if the dice is weighted poorly, there will still be a good mix of high and low. But to test if dice are wighted is pretty simple, take them and roll them a hundred times. Now, see if there are...

Why would you want to print the updates out to reference them? Having it up on the computer means you can search through the entire thing in an instant. Or you could make any sort of marking in the book next to powers, feats or items that have been updated. And even with neither of those...

If you want the new content they produce you have to pay for it. You do not have to pay if you want to play D&D.

I'd just like to point out that if the number of installs really was aimed at covering the typical group, then they're one short since DM and five players would need six installs. (May or may not have run into that issue >.> )