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more than anything else? Pathfinder kicking 4e in the junk.

Since sneaky players aren't that into challenges anyway, I felt it was the appropriate response. Especially after they hear about all the awesome loot the more challenge-oriented groups are pulling down when they get all the juicy job offers. Along with a few elegies to fallen comrades, of...

I live in the city where the original Hero Games office was, so it's no surprise that I play a lot of Champions. This area is pretty thick with Champions players, so it's easy to find games. I love Champions for its comprehensive character design process, essentially because it's like a...

I like the flavor and mechanics behind the witch class. The class has enough flexibility to be both naughty and nice. The spell list has tons of flavor, but not a lot of raw power. There are opportunities for shock & awe and there are plenty of options for cloak & dagger. The mechanics of hexes...

After the fact, when they're all drinking to their latest success in the tavern, their bard sings songs about how clever and sneaky they were, while the other adventuring group's bard is singing a tale about their heroic struggles and getting all the love from the audience.

Another witch would be a nice addition to the posse. Witches get to share spells for free (more accurately, their familiars do the sharing) which is a nice way to pad your spell selection for both. A summoner always gives you a numbers advantage because, well - summoner. If you have a powerful...

what hexes does the witch queen have? What patron? What spells? The choices will have an impact on what sort of NPC compliments her powers the best.

I think the value of balance in a game system is inversely proportional to the experience level of the userbase. If you're doing the Nth edition of a game with an extremely experienced core audience, then balance is rather devalued. Most of your players/DMs already know all the tricks and traps...

I don't think forced is quite the right way to address the issue, but I think obliged is the better word for it. If the system does not enforce the weakness of the PC from coming into play, then the DM should nudge the players into the right sort of direction. By that I mean that if you are...

In general, your stats should not limit your options, but should affect your outcomes. There's no reason why a weak person can't try to perform a feat of strength, but a well designed game system should make it extremely rare for it to end well. Likewise, if a dumb character attempts to solve...

Tarquin's alignment is totally Awesome Evil.

283 - Can Opener: This blade weighs 25% more than a normal blade of its type and suffers a -1 penalty to hit vs opponents wearing light or no armor, but gains a +1 to hit vs opponents wearing heavy armor. If a target is using a shield, the armor type shifts one class closer to heavy.

I'm gonna assume you mean how should ability scores be reflected in the way a player plays his character... We call them Role Playing Games, but really, they aren't. Games have winners and losers, and ideally, RPGs shouldn't be about winning and losing, they should be about shared experiences...

276 - Letter Opener: The first day a new owner picks up and wields this blade, it gains a +1 enhancement bonus to attacks and damage to any person whose name starts with the letter 'A'. Every 24 hours, the letter changes to the next letter in sequence. The wielder instinctively knows what letter...

I'm just going to have to say that I disagree fundamentally with your opinion but this is a lousy place to discuss it. If you want to swing by the Hero Games discussion boards, by all means, state your case and see what the community there thinks.

That module's author, who also wrote Danger International, one of HGs best publications ever, was one hell of a talented GM, whose former players bemoan the fact that he's moved abroad.

0_o I have to say, I'm a little boggled by this statement. I have always characterized 6e as Steve Long sacrificing balance for elegance. 6e is full of extremely exploitable structures and powers. Barrier, first and foremost.

alternately, there's always this approach: Dragon Half - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is also part of the text for share spells that the summoner may cast a spell with a target of "You" on his familiar... Enlarge Person spell does not have a target of You. Secondly, the summoner may cast spells on his eidolon even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the...

The first time we encountered this situation, the goblin ran away and gathered allies and set up an ambush. The second time we encountered this situation, we slaughtered all of the goblins, including the ones that tried to surrender.