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Yup. She thinks Beckinsale "looks really hot and badass in leather". I was more focused on the fact that Kate can't act. We are an interesting pair.

Depends on the gamer. I saw this movie only because my girlfriend wanted to (she really liked Underworld, if mainly for Kate Beckinsale in leather :p) and went in with very low expectations. And I wasn't disappointed. Simplistic plot-line which you can predict without effort, poor acting (Rhona...

"The geek shall inherit the earth" :)

Yeah, it's one of the most fun campaigns I've ever been involved in. We're hoping to get a Story Hour going someday, and when we do, I'll mention it here. On a marginally connected note, I started teaching for the semester yesterday and mentioned in my classes while introducing myself that I'm...

Heh! I think it's quite clear that exactly what you mean is very far from what Mallus and I do. Yup. And while certain people will agree about good and evil with regard to certain acts, other people will disagree. This thread and (as I noted) human history is proof of that. Have you ever...

Since we'll be between updates for a while, here's a link to a thread I started on the General RPG Discussion board about my other group, which I just started DMing for. They're, as you'll see, kinda ... special. We might have a story hour for them too one day, but I think it might get me (and...

I just started DMing in a co-DMed 4e game and the PCs were ambushed by wererats leading a horde of rats. After defeating the enemy and taking one wererat (unconscious) prisoner, the PCs decided to "send a message" to the wererat thug who they knew had sent the attackers. So they cut off her arms...

Hmm... (goes off to scribble some notes) More seriously, I'm getting busy with college restarting and setting things up for the two courses I'm teaching this semester (one of which I only got handed this week), so the next update will take a while to arrive.

What's an "All Quests" system?

What you are apparently not understanding is that many people, both here and in some of your other threads (re. heroism in D&D, for example), are disagreeing with your critique. As has been pointed out more than once in quite a lot of detail, there's no less use of myth in game/adventure/milieu...

Seconded. I've been DMing that way for years, and all the DMs with whom I play now use that method, and IMNSHO it's the best way of using XP in the game. And to tie it back into this thread's topic, one of the significant advantages of untying XP from combat (or other) encounters is that it...

I'm a little surprised about the comments on The Unborn, until I reminded myself that tastes differ incredibly widely. I saw The Unborn yesterday and my girlfriend (damn her for making me go!) and I both thought that it was as entertaining as watching paint dry and approximately as scary. The...

Thanks. Actually it wasn't that difficult. Give a PC mechanical benefits with flavor/roleplaying problems and a lot of the time they'll totally go for it. Plus Korm's player likes having weird stuff happen with/to his PCs. And here's another update for the new year... * * * * * When the...

Does anyone here roll all (or most) relevant rolls for the NPCs before the game? I mean things like initiative, attacks and damage, saves, etc. I've done that for a long while for my 3.5e game since 3e is way too slow at high levels (we're at 16th lvl now) and that saves a ton of time. I'm...

Playing 50% 4e and 50% 3.5e now, mainly because I have a long running high level 3.5e game and it would be too difficult to convert to 4e. If it wasn't, I'd shift it to 4e in a flash.

It's pretty straightforward. Our PCs found a box (well, a guy walked into the bar we use as our base of operations carrying it, even though he was evidently already dead). The box couldn't be opened by any means and it spoke to our paladin and told him it was a god. We're in a setting where new...

For me it's simple. I let the co-DMs of the 4e game I'm now running create them, since they (Rolzup and Mallus here on ENWorld) are unbelievably creative people, and then use their ideas. Simple! There's a thread on the setting they created here. And a quick example of some things they did with...

Thank you. That's a point which, however often and well made (as you just did), seems to be forgotten by many people. Not that it's new, of course. The complaint which megamania made was being made by Plato in The Republic and ever since (and before, I presume). Literally every generation...

You should really read all of the earlier posts. A number of them have already debunked this idea that math is being used as the engine of heroic endeavor, yet you keep beating the poor dead horse. The whole question of exactly what is heroism, and whether you mean heroism on the basis of the...

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