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I was just wondering if there is usually a cost to join in the D&D Encounters sessions being run at various locations. I called a relatively local gaming shop that I've heard about, but have never gone to before. I asked about D&D Encounters, which apparently a session is being run tomorrow...

I remember a few years ago seeing the Truenamer class as I browed Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and TrueName Magic in the book store. I liked the flavor of the class so much, I bought the book. It's a really interesting concept. Unfortunately, it was my experience that it kind of fell apart...

I'm not really that crazy about long-term wounds, however I've thought about it a lot in order to appease a player who is much more of a simulationist than I am. I haven't seen the Goodman games book, but it sounds very similar to what I considered doing, which is using the Disease Track as a...

A shield can be dropped (free action) or stowed (minor action), as could a two-handed weapon or second weapon. Also, a two-handed weapon may require two hands to use it as a weapon, but you can still hold it with one hand (and not be able to attack with it, unless your DM allows you to use it...

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. The problem with denying them XP is that it's kind of arbitrary and being determined by an NPC special effect, not based on a decision of the player or anything else. At first, I thought you meant he was unconscious, as he was knocked out from...

Hit points isn't just a representation about how many wounds you can take, and technically they weren't in earlier editions either (though sometimes this aspect was glossed over or forgotten by players). Therefor, if Hit Point loss is not just about how many wounds you can sustain, then hit...

I don't get to play D&D nearly as much as I'd like... it's hard to get good regular stable group when my gaming network is unreliable and often busy (including myself). I'm really curious about trying Spirit of the Century, Mouseguard, Primetime Adventures, and Savage Worlds. I don't know much...

I was about to bring up the Dominate example as well. I've yet to see anyone want to try to play with the definition of Ally vs Enemy for any reason other than to gain some additional advantage that appears not to be intended by a power, or avoid a disadvantage or limitation that does seem...

Haha, me too! I remember getting to that rule and saying, "the first player is chosen by who goes first," I say as I plop down the first card.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think that it's at least conceivably possible that a person could make quite a good story that involved dragonborn warlords. It's possible that maybe they could even pull off a version of such a character in Middle Earth. It's a slim chance that it will ever happen, but...

Why take it personal though? I keep hearing "WotC abandoned us!" No they didn't, they tried something new and something they thought was fun, interesting, something that might gain new customers, and trying to breathe new ideas into D&D. You may not like their choices, but they did for them...

You are trying to skew and spin what I have said into something I did not. I did not say, "you're more deluded than we are." I'm saying that the notion of a person assuming or implying that someone who disagrees with you is practicing self-deception due to the fact that they don't agree with...

The way I like to play it is that the DC should be based on what makes sense on the setting or situation. The DC might also just be to spot a clue. Some should be tough to see, and only viewable through a normal trained Spot Check success, but what if you have a super perceptive character that...

And the rest of us have to suffer through such threads just because one person said something that was (or was interpreted as) insulting? And what about "uncomfortable observations?" This seems to imply a weird notion that those who would disagree are practicing self-deceit. I think such an...

What's their to lament? There's nothing any more wrong about inviting a 4E player to play in a 3E game than there is inviting them to a 2E game, or a completely different game. Sometimes, I find myself looking back fondly at the old Chaossium system, and I'd kind of like to give the old Call...

Edition Warring actually hurts the chances of this happening. Those most vocal participating in the warring have a bit of a splash effect on others and create wariness in trying other games because they've heard so many bad things. I know folks who have never played 4E, and refuse to even try...

Assuming that you are not taking a shot at yourself, are you suggesting that people who disagree with you are sniveling whiners? I'd just like to be clear. I was also wondering if you happen to notice anything ironic in the length of your message in comparison to the length of your signature...

Actually that wouldn't be so bad, if they actually moved enough product to justify it. A Retro-gamer column could be kind of cool, even if it was a small amount of content relative to their current edition.

Why do you keep keep going on tangents about how some companies use some market data to add new items to their line-up and ignoring the main point of the argument which is that a company is not going to give up on a product or even style of product that is core to their identity (at least in a...

Whether McDonalds sells veggie burgers in a country that mostly does not eat eat beef is an absurd counter argument, and completely and blatantly ignores the idea of my statement. Burger King sells a Veggie Burger in the US, and we're not even a majority vegetarian, of course McDonalds is going...