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As far as I'm concerned, whenever there's a dispute between what makes sense and what the book says, then I choose reason and logic over the book. The 3E base assumption was made solely for metagame balance purposes regardless of what made sense within the game world, and that has always been a...

Sean K. Reynolds came up with a set of variant rules that deals with this topic. Basically, he takes the position that a typical peasant's life is not an easy one, and simply surviving in the long term is worth experience. Basically, he posits that one month of life is roughly equivlent to a...

This is like saying that Star Trek is over because Captain Kirk is no longer in command of the Enterprise! I know there are some people who will indeed say that, but I think such an attitude is patent nonsense. The universe that holds the Federation, Klingong, etc., etc., is bigger than...

No, the Lord of the Rings trilogy (and it wasn't really a trilogy in his conception, just how it ended up being published) is about the passing of the Third Age. The world itself is bigger than that. Patent nonsense. The former does not at all follow from the latter. That Tolkien didn't write...

I prefer the opposite. To me a world needs to be bigger than any one story. The world not about "a" story. It's about the people and places in it, and the lives of those people in those places, and the flavor that arises from the sum of that. There should be innumerable stories in a world...

I'll stand by what I said, and elaborate (ahem, more detail! No groans from the audience!) on why I have that opinion. Perhaps I'm not like most players, because I do find world-setting details like calendars to be fun. As I said, I'm a setting-whore. Fully half the fun for me as a player is...

You mean your group is too lazy to learn such things about the setting? I have DM'ed in the past, but currently I'm just a player. As a player, I view it as my duty and responsibility to learn something about the world and setting I'm going to be running characters in. In fact, that's half...

I'd have to say Cormyr is my favorite region. Parts of it can be safe regions to establish a home base and have families, yet there's lots of opportunity for adventure in and near Cormyr. It has a seacoast for naval adventures, and forests and mountains and lakes and rivers for outdoor...

According to published Realmslore, the stonelands are primarily badlands terrain, and there are no civilized settlements of any note there. This means there are no guilds, no churches, and no markets. A Baron of the Stonelands is basically a baron of nothing except the responsibility preventing...

Thanks for the clarification. I'm reading from the 3.0 books. Unnamed bonuses, hmm? My own call (house rule if you like) is that synergy bonuses are named bonuses, and "synergy" is a type just like enhancement or circumstance. It's not a "rule as written", but then I've never claimed to be a...

I looked closer, and you're right. I stand corrected.... at least partially. It does say that the synergy bonuses for Bluff and Sense Motive stack, but I see no mention of Knowledge (Nobility) having a synergy bonus, much less it stacking with the other two. That being said, though, I still...

:confused: :lol: You can't be serious! I'm counting three stacked synergy bonuses in there! I don't think that the rules say one way or the other on this, but I'd never allow it. If a player tried that on me, I'd hysterically laugh in their face and tell them to get real! For any given...

Back on the previous page, message #54... That was one of my favorites too, although its utility for me lessened toward the end as it started shifting focus from Star Trek to Battletech. Back in the '80's, FASA's Star Trek RPG was my favorite RPG, even beating out D&D. I'd also like to note...

It's not really possible to answer the question of which is "best" without specifying what specific criteria you're interested in. Since these are game novels -- novels set in a game world, more criteria may be applied than a standard novel. * Quality of plot/story * Style in which story is...

You're quite right. Most sorry about that; I went back and fixed it. Oh, and besides the continual card-shuffling driving me nuts, it also doesn't help the attention problem. It may stop the unfortunate ADD person from "bouncing off the walls", but he's still not concentrating on the game...

This is regretful. What I'm about to say may be considered by some to be insensitive or "politically incorrect" (in the cultural meaning of that phrase; I post no politics here), but it's what I think. It is sad that this person has a medical condition that prevents him from participating as...

Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG (using the same Coda system that Star Trek uses) has suffered in the same way. By all appearances, Decipher is just letting their entire RPG product line sit and rot while they do nothing. My own guess is that they're putting their time into the card game stuff...

I posted this on the other thread linked above too, but I figured I'd put it here too. The campaign in which I'm a player has been going on since December of 1997, which is 6.9 real-life years. The in-game time has been 22.7 years. As of last night, we have played 829 sessions, and the...

In the group in which I'm a player, we don't have "collectors item" adventures on such major milestone numbers. I do keep track, though. Our campaign has been going on since December of 1997, which is 6.9 real-life years. The in-game time has been 22.7 years. As of last night, we have played...

I dealt with some of these issues a couple of years ago, when attempting to assemble a master list of craft and profession skills. I came up with the following definitions: An activity qualifies as a craft only if all of the following criteria are met: the work is performed on some tangible...