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For what it's worth, I'm currently taking acting classes in LA and what my instructor says (and he has written, directed, and acted for many years and currently has a guest role on Heroes) generally agrees with Jeff W's characterization of moviemaking , at least in Hollywood, as a collaborative...

Hey Hey, I just noticed your PM... Truthfully, I don't think I have time to commit to your game. I wouldn't mind sitting in on a session, but you should probably look for another full time player. Ken

Well In my opinion Humans are the most powerful race, unless you're playing a class (like a Rogue) that benefits greatly from Darkvision. And to be honest, I'm glad that things are the way they are. If one were to make a movie with an elf character they would be shockingly different than...

Ars Magica I think Ars Magica is a system that benefits more than most from a good DM. Also , it requires a great deal of preparation to do justice to Mythic Europe. I've always wanted to play Ars Magica with a really good DM in a really detailed campaign. With an average DM, I'd rather...

Counters I'm not sure about Tabletop (the counters need to display a fair bit of numerical info on their face, and I need to be able to write on them during the battle), but for Maptools (where I will use macros for this stuff) they will be awesome. Thanks! Ken

Savage Tide battle Thanks! The funny thing is, I've been running Savage Tide again on Maptools for a different group for the last year, and we're getting close to the point where I would need to run that battle again. I've been trying to decide if it's even workable in maptools, and how I...

Ars Magica What I really loved about the game was how complex character creation was, along with the mechanics for the coven, season-based play, and Vis. What I disliked was how affecting creatures with spells basically came down to rolling vs their magical might, which was a single number. I...

I don't disagree with you at all. Paizo is a fantastic company. I mean no disrespect to them. My point was that Hasbro has made some decisions that benefitted Paizo greatly. They conduct yearly layoffs, and often seem to lay off their best people. That provides a ready source of new...

Paizo was handed its customers, and most of its employees, on a silver platter, by some other company whose name escapes me at the moment.

At least in my circles (and I knew at least a hundred gamers in college), D&D wasn't 'the standard' back then. It had really stagnated, and most people I knew had left it for other systems that they considered more advanced -- for example, games that had a real skill system. In my case, that...

Hey I was reading this thread and noticed what you said about Maptools. I've been using Maptools for several years now. It really isn't difficult to use; most of the complexity is optional. For example, I don't use the lighting/line of sight stuff -- I just unmask the parts of the dungeon...

Ars Magica I read the Ars Magica books and began work on a campaign right before 3rd edition D&D came out. Truthfully though, troupe style play isn't really my thing. It's a spectacularly ambitious system, though. When I saw Johnathan Tweet's name on 3E , I was like, 'wow, he wrote Ars...

Torg I ran the whole 'Destiny Map' campaign in college and had a great time with it. Torg had some great ideas (the Drama deck was awesome). I would love to see it with an updated rules system. Ken

In my opinion (and I am a software developer, but not a web developer), none of the 3pp companies could pull off something like the DDI. They lack the in-house programming skills to pull it off, and the money to outsource it. Keep in mind that the DDI followed several failed attempts on the...

Pathfinder I love Pathfinder and I think it definitely represents an evolution of the 3.5 rules. I'm guessing that it will be my RPG of choice for a long time. That said, I'm not sure I would call it 'old school'. The art direction is very emo/anime -- spiky hair, too-big weapons, big eyes...

DDI and the GSL It seems to me that Hasbro wanted a more dominant role in the 4E market than they had with 3E, so they tried to use licensing (IE the GSL) to enforce a more marginal position supporting 4E, combined with an abandonment of 3E, on third parties. The funny thing is, having the...

Ogl Are you kidding? The OGL was the best thing that ever happened to D&D, post Gygax. It's the only reason I'm not still playing RuneQuest. It's the reason I still get to buy D&D products from the awesome writers that Hasbro sees fit to lay off every year! It's the document that freed...

I love this thread And it really makes me want to play in or run a games like this -- minus the good aligned drow, of course! Ken

Russians John Selmak is active on these boards and lives in Moscow...I met him and his group and sat in on one of their games when I was travelling across Russia in 2007. However, they were expats. Hmm, I think their DM might have been Russian, actually. One thing I noticed while travelling...

interesting I see where you're going with this. But, I played RuneQuest for over a decade, so the cleric class has always seem kind of wierd to me. My suggestion is that opening the whole cleric list to people is too much. Like the previous poster said, average people shouldn't have the...