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With regard to the people talking about DM-free D&D... I was going to post a long thing here about the Arkham Horror boardgame and how it's pretty much identical to what I think a DM-less D&D would become, but while writing it I thought of a much easier way to state my position: D&D is a Role...

I'd probably let him have the raven pluck the wand out of/drop the wand into his hand as a free action provided that the raven was just hanging out about his person that round. If he's interested in hand-replacement strategies other than regenerate: A golem-style animated hand made of stone...

Despite appearances, Record of Lodoss War is actually not based on D&D. It's based on the creator's campaign in a Japanese RPG the name of which currently escapes my recollection. It's fairly similar to d&d but only published in Japanese. Also, "Berserk it's the milk"? I have no idea what...

I wonder if they'll mention this at all in the show. I assume they won't change sets or anything and will, at most, say that the skeleton crew left at Cheyenne Mountain includes their entire operation but it'd be neat to see real life events having an effect on the show.

While I'll thoroughly agree that the series took a dive and that the series is, at best, an okay read I can't agree that the dive was taken after the first book. Stone of Tears and Temple of the Winds are pretty evenly tied as my favorite books in the series. Blood of the Fold wasn't bad but...

Provided you like it all the way through to the end I highly recommend everything else McDevitt has written. There are... I want to say a half a dozen books that take place in the same universe as Engines of God but other than Omega I can't think of the titles of any of them. Omega is the last...

Both plus anarchism vs. monarchy for the win. The series was (in my opinion anyway) so much better before he introduced Jagang and his army.

I'd say it goes the wrong way around. Rogues already get a goodly volume of skill points while fighters get shafted. This way the rogues (and others with good skill points) get not only more but more more than anyone else. I think people need more skill points in general but especially those...

Also, Song of Ice and Fire would be much more difficult to translate into the miniseries format. Sword of Truth novels are largely self-contained. The later books have a continuing nemesis but each one deals with one major challenge being introduced and overcome. The first book in particular...

It threw me for a second but I just assumed it was something introduced during this season's SG-1. I started watching SG-1 near the end of season 2 of Atlantis, but I started by buying season 1 and starting at episode 1. I'm currently about 1/3rd of the way through season 3 and am avoiding...

Str: 8 Used to be an 11, then I stopped working out for 3 years. Dex: 12 Good hand-eye coordination and I can pass Witch Doctor on Crazy on the local Pump It Up machine. Con: 9 On the one hand my chronic migranes have given me a fairly high pain tolerance but on the other hand I've had...

I vote Bruce Campbell for Zed. He's not old enough, but with the magic of makeup... Joking aside, I think Christopher Lloyd would be perfect as Zed. I do have to wonder whether Raimi will do something about the rather absurd plot point of the ban on fire from the first book (I never...

Man, I was all excited when I saw the title. I thought I was going to be able to go out and buy a box of nightgaunt, elder thing, flying polyp, etc minis and re-base them for use in Arkham Horror games and lovecraftian d&d campaigns. But alas, it's cheesy movie monsters. Maybe they'll have...

The groups I've been in tend to swing wildly to one end of the spectrum or the other. Either we are the 'kill 'em all and then kill their gods while they're distracted figuring it out' type, the 'there is no situation which cannot be resolved through reasoned discourse' type, or the gung-ho...

Sort of. He had a series entitled The Dungeon but it wasn't exactly about a dungeon world. I've only read the middle books, never the first two or last two, but the concept seemed to be that The Dungeon was a big game between two master races (the Ren and the Chaffri, I believe) and conducted...

I can only think of one off the top of my head and it wasn't exactly the DM's idea: Back in 2e we had a cast of characters for whom we took turns DMing. Whoever currently was DMing had their character stay behind and run the bar we co-owned. At one point we played a variant of the adventure...

Yeah, but we're not. When it comes to the matter of players saying, "We don't like how you run the game, Mr. DM" then you're absolutely right: terms like 'railroading', 'videogamey', 'pet NPC', and the rest are semantics and useless. When the players say there's a problem and they don't like...

Sorry, Rounser. I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I was trying to say that the thing you were talking about wasn't what I was talking about. I think I understand your position and agree with you, I just wanted to say up front that I wasn't talking about adventure paths and their use...

Having read this whole giant thread, I agree wholeheartedly (I think) with RC, Hussar, and Quas. Now let me go ahead and shoot my mouth off ;) The primary goal here, I think, was: What is railroading and how does it relate to d&d as a storytelling medium? So, in an attempted answer: 1)...

I voted low stats, but that's not really true. I've played plenty of characters with 3d6 in order and had fun with them and I've played characters with no score below a 14 and had just as much fun. What I like best is to either have one of two setups: 1) Solid, middle-of-the-road hero stats...