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It has? First I've heard of it. This article and this article and this article all seem to sing it's praises...except for finding the 360 adaption to be weak (though this may be due to its early stage of development). Similar impressions appeared here and here When I saw the demo at Gencon...

A discussion of tone is always a good idea. SOME comics these days are really dark...and many are not. Certainly, the whole Marvel Adventures line is cracking good fun. Titles like the Blue Beetle, the new Atom, Booster Gold, Spiderman, Trinity, all of the First Class titles, Incredible...

For varying values of 'sure bet', perhaps. Of the five or so pagan gamers I've met, exactly none of them had any love for heavy metal. The only friend of mine who liked heavy metal was gay, but not a pagan. Everyone one of us were children of the 80s. As for the sentiment that it would be...

M&M is four-color fun and a great system. It seems a bit intimidating at first, until you learn to let go a little (at least that was our experience). You're not trying to level up nearly so much as enjoy the plot, generally speaking, and the enjoyment comes from being superheroes. The...

Sorry, typo there: it should read high-LEVEL fantasy. I haven't played GURPS 4e, but I ran a high-fantasy game for 11 years in GURPS 3e quite successfully, so I'm not saying it can't...just that it suffered for several weaknesses that made it less suited than D&D for the game we were trying to...

I left AD&D to move to GURPS, which was my gaming system of choice for nearly fifteen years before D&D 3e brought me back. While I haven't moved to GURPS 4e, I have browsed it. I think it's a great system for some things and a terrible system for some others. As a replacement for D&D? Well...

Outstanding! Turns out I misread our google game calendar and our next game is a week from Saturday, giving me the needed time to add some polish to it. The more I think of this approach, the more I'm really warming to it. Presenting as almost a kind of puzzle should appeal to my group, as we...

Thanks, all! I and my players appreciate it. Kevin, if it's not too much trouble, could you post an example of one of the skill entries you used? Are they similar to the examples in the DMG or at Dungeon? I have a perfect situation for a skill challenge 'mini-game' in the next session, if I...

Thanks for this, guys. The details of these skill challenges is very illuminating. I've used a couple, but this is something I'd love to try, using this approach. It's something I might not have come to on my own and I think it's great that you're willing to share both the method and the...

It's like Orc and Pie, except the Pie is a pack of Marlboros.

Oy vey. I swear my players are gonna think I'm copying you. :)

The problem with a discussion like this is that many folks anecdotal evidence is often incomplete. This matters with references to things like play-style, campaign breadth, character choices, group dynamics, available rules supplements and so forth. I've run several 3/3.5e campaigns. My main...

I'm not sure what you mean by this? Do you think that Moore was actually predicting World War III by proxy in a story with a blue man who walks on Mars and genetically engineered tigers? As far most people I knew were concerned, Moore was deconstructing the superhero and addressing things like...

Seconded. I'm not arguing the merits of the policies or the legitimacy of them. I'm only highlighting them to point out the greater context of the Watchmen as a literary work of it's time. My point was merely that for the intended audience, this was a very topical current event subject that...

Only if you weren't from OUR reality. A preemptive first-strike was considered a best-option-amongst-bad-options kind of issue. MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, was the policy of the day. The idea was that pulling the trigger kills us both...and knowing that prevents anyone from pulling the...

I'm assuming you mean Moore, not Miller there. I'd put forth that you were not in the majority, there. Let's look at some of the media you could come across around the time the Watchmen came out: The Day After (US TV miniseries) Threads (BBC TV miniseries) Russians (song by Sting) 99 Luft...

That's a pretty good point. Moore goes out of his way to show Rorschach essentially stepping around prostitutes and ignoring drunks and drug users in the streets. The only time we see him harassing one is when he gives Moloch a hard time about the pills...and that's obviously more because it's...

No, no...this is an alignment thread. We can only speak of objective absolutes! Geez. You've been on the Internet long enough to know that. :D

I'm assuming here that the core question is actually "What Alignment is Rorschach by the end of the Watchmen, or at least post-1976?" Because there are two Rorschachs in the story...the one who Walter Kovacs pretended to be and the one who replaced Walter Kovacs. They are two different people...

I'm just curious: in your combats, how many opponents and players do you normally have?