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From what I understand, there aren't "levels"- canon is binary. If it was in the movies its canon, if not, then its not. This simplifies things because one can avoid 99% of the idiocy in the Star Wars universe by simply saying "canon only". Since I've yet to see anything in the EU that's...

Or, if I'm playing a mage, it's an opportunity to be a commoner for the next dozen sessions or so, while the GM hems and haws and explains that it would be unfair to replace the 10,000+ GP invested in the spellbook. But if I'm nice, it's a chance to start buying spells from scratch. With no...

I always thought that the epic rules were useless, and this confirms it. Traditionally, after a certain point D&D HAS been about kingdom, or at least stronghold management. So if epic D&D isn't doing that, then AFAIC it isn't D&D any more. (Still annoyed at the lack of strongholds as a...

Or more likely, start off being barely more competent than commoners, dick around for a few sessions, and then watch the game end without having gone anywhere at all. If I want a level grind, I'll play World of Warcraft: otherwise, life's too goddamn short. These days, I'd estimate that each...

AFAIC, railroading is only one way to deal with passive players, and frankly, one of the crudest. A more sophisticated method is to make sure that the players want to go someplace you find interesting before the game even starts, by having described motivations and goals. Someone who has the...

As far as I'm concerned, the proper question should be: "What are the PCs going to do to get themselves out of this mess?" Really, ask your players how they are going to deal with the situation- if the response comes back as "well, we're going to wait around until the Big Friend can help us...

In the last twenty-five years I've been in dozens of games that started at 1st. level. It's gotten kind of boring to make a character with a "promise of greatness", and watch the game peter out after a level or three, because nobody had the endurance to play week after week, year after year to...

And this, IME, is a recipe for a disasterous game. Whenever a GM says the players/characters should do anything, it's an almost certain sign that everybody is going to end up annoyed. After all, players never do what they SHOULD, but rather what they WANT to do. For instance, when the GM says...

Personally, if a player is playing his character completely at odds with his character description, then questions over personality mechanics is the least of my concerns- something has gone seriously agly. Fortunately, I can easily talk over such issues with the people I play with. Also, as...

Hello, I'm Eric Tolle, from like, California. I decided to join this site because between D&D, Mutants and Masterminds, and True20, a fairly chunk of my current game collection is D20. And there's enough discussion of non-D&D stuff to keep my interest up. I'm an old, long time gamer. I...