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In my current D&D game, the DM has made rituals cost 1/10th the standard amount, and so there's been a number of rituals I've used a lot; Animal Messenger to keep in contact with our home village and allies; Comprehend Languages so I can help in negotiating a truce between hobgoblins and elves...

I've already heard kvetching to the effect of using Smallville's "soap opera" system for a superhero game. Which is weird to me, since in my experience at their best comics are very similar to soap operas. A game where Spiderman is rolling his "with great power comes great responsiblity" +...

One aspect of empty rooms I like to play up is that they often have multiple exits. This can really increase the paranoia level of the players, when they realize that there's multiple directions they can be snuck up on. I also like to play up the atmospheric elements of rooms; maybe a break in...

That's exactly how I did it when I created a Twilight sorcerer- spells are charms. IIRC it was: Dodge like Crazy More Dodgr Archery More Archery (like I'm going to get in melee willingly) Social Fu Academics Fu Terrestrial Sorcery Spell Spell Spell Of course that was first edition, so YMMV.

So...I can choose to spend money to get the game materials in a format that is not as easily searchable, and that is nearly impossible to read on my smartphone? One which requires me to lug an expensive computer around? Is this a religious thing? :') I suppose that's a valid reason. After all...

I've said before that I think this ous leading toward a Korean mmorpg model, where basic access is cheap and add-ons can be had for extra one-time or continuous charges. The basic structure of D20 works well for a modular approach; attributes, skills, attack & defense, feats, powers. I do think...

Back in the AD&D days, my wizard who was a minor noble engaged in a profitable intrigue by polymorphing chickens into heavy war horses to be sold cheaply to a rival nation (the idea being, that if they took any damage, the rider would abruptly find himself astride a chicken). This alone eas...

I don't think WOTC should even try to go for the 3.x or retro gamers. Fighting over a shrinking pool of grognard gamers is not the way to grow the hobby. Instead they should go more toward capturing the near-rpg gamer market segments, such as mmorpg and crpg players. DDI already goes a long way...

Obviously it's going to be that most popular media property: My Little Pony, the RPG. I hear it has special mechanics so you can roleplay pretty ponies playing rpgs.

K I think it's more heading back to the Magic the Gathering style of character optimization that characterized 3rd Edition, combined with the "Complete X" books. From a business perspective, this is awesome; you can get the core rules, and then if you want your character to keep up, you have...

You write a BASIC program that churns out a thousand or so characters until the high school computer class teacher kicks you off the printer. Then characters jump off the roof of the inn until you got the character you wanted. :D

If you have black powder weapons, then fireworks and rockets should be feasible as weaponry. A Huo Che or Hwacha should be easy enough to make at the indicated technology level, and quite awesome in use.

One thing I really liked about the Dramatic Editing system from "Adventure!" is that I could create death traps without coming up with a solution for them. I could let the players spend Inspiration and tell me what the weakness of the death trap is or what brilliant action they take to survive...

The sad thing about this is how versions of D&D is regarded as a zero-sum game. "MY version of D&D is the TRUE version of D&D is the correct one, and anybody publishing or playing a different version subtracts from my version's success." So we get people comparing new versions of a game to rape...

That's already going on, based on the costume redesigns. Them again, is it really a flame war if everybody's saying "What is this, Image comics circa 1989?"

The quantity and quality of the cohort was less dependant on Charisma than in 3.X, where Bards and Sorcerers are better leaders than Fighters. On the other hand, followers, as level 1 warriors, are pretty much useless. A far more fundamental difference between editions lies in the changes to...

Of course not- there's plenty of room for people to ignore RAW in any actual play of any rpg. You can have a heroic high fantasy version of Runequest, our a WH40K game tha explores tolerance and multiculturalism. But that really says nothing about how the rules are written, or expected style of...

If 3.X is a simulation game, it's simulating a world that quite basically makes no sense at all. It portrays a pseudo-medieval, pseudo-feudal world, where the largest cities have tens of 18+ level spellcasters. That makes no sense at all, either economically or politically. Based on the RAW, 3.5...