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"Player 3 has thrown the challenge flag. Let's watch as the referee reviews the video replay to see if the DM blew the call on that last fireball spell."

Considering that ST:TOS was sold to the network as a "Wagon train to the Stars", and the Firefly crew would have been very much at home in a western, yes. Some of the perceived differences are due to the rules systems used. A lot of fantasy games use character classes and level because D&D...

Been playing since 1979. Never had anyone walk away over "In game offensive material". Had folks leave over rules arguments, drunken stupidity, bf-gf breakups, and irritating the DM one too many times. Maybe the folks I game with have a good wall between fantasy gaming for fun and Real Life.

IMO, as long as you state up front that your game/story/movie/play etc is fiction/fantasy, do what you want, get ideas and inspiration from whatever sources you want and have fun. If someone is offended, politely suggest they can go elsewhere. We aren't talking about a Doctoral Thesis. We...

As far as the PHB update, they should take a lesson from Steve Jackson Games. Update the PHB and publish free errata for the prior version(s). If WOTC has figured out pdfs by now and sold PHB in pdf, provide updated versions for all owners free of charge. Make sure you note on the books what...

Don't know about changes from 2nd to 3rd but from 3rd to 4th, there was some 'points inflation'. So your 200pt superhero is probably more like a 400~500pt 4th ed character. Their iconic Dai Blackthorn character in 4th ed is a 250pt critter.

Read about this on another forum. There was discussion there about possible missing money and some internal strife between investors. Apparently, there are pending lawsuits so none of the involved parties are talking. Might be a while before the real story comes out. Or never, since a lot of...

In my dusty game collection, I found a Dallas board game in a LP album sized format. It is even labeled, "Game only, Not a Phonographic Record Album". Published by Yaquinto Publications Inc, Dallas TX. The game store was giving them away so I am guessing sales were not that brisk. 1980...

Other then the fact the Battleship movie had a battleship and a short bit of grid based plot fire, it was basically an Alien Invasion movie with no homage to the classic tabletop game. Rather then a D&D movie, they should produce a movie set in one of the established published game worlds...

Just went to Conquest 48 in KC, May 26-28. Wound up in a original D&D game where we also had a first time RPG player. Prefer the smaller cons. Hotel rates more reasonable and you aren't fighting the teeming hordes. I hate waiting for a panel only to find out I needed to be in line 2 hours...

Guess Romulans in this game don't do anything but shoot stuff. At least a few of the Federation minis had non-weapon devices in their hands.

The first version of D&D had a very limited number of characters(fighting men, magic users, and clerics) and races(Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits and Human). Men and Magic, the equivalent of the later PHB, has all of 34 pages in a 5x7 format. Later versions added more races and class options. Then...

For those interested in these but with no knowledge of GURPS, you can download a copy of GURPS Lite for free from the Steve Jackson Games web store. Might let you make a more informed decision on purchase.

With the huge adoption rates for smartphone and the growth in phone gaming, acceptance for gaming in general should rise. Kind of hard to look down your nose at RPGs when it is buried in your phone trying to find that new Pokemon or launch your counter strike.

As one who used the CMP datasets with PCGen, I liked the end product. The other option was something called E-Tools which IIRC was the descendant of a product WOTC included in the early 3E PH called Master Tools. CMP got the license when the originator of Master Tools failed to deliver a...

I know its early in the announcement process but a few questions: What quits working if you let a subscription lapse? Can you pause a subscription and resume later? (If your game goes on hiatus, be nice if you can pause the subscription costs) What doesn't work if you don't have an internet...

Unless there is some character concept reason for a Dwarf with a high Dex, see if your DM will let you re-image your character a bit. Drop your Dex to 10, take the Armor Proficiency, Heavy feat, and reallocate the stat points to Wisdom and Charisma. The heavy armor should more then cover the...

Guessing that the Legal Dragons at Hasbro are readying their breath weapons over the Dungeon Master name. But Lego isn't exactly short of Legal Dragons either so if this proceeds, they will find some acceptable name for it. This seems like a decent variation on a Dungeon Forge set and the...

What game system? 3 vs 1 is usually bad for the 1, even if the 1 is a fully prepared melee critter. Avoid if possible. Keep in mind that at higher levels, some classes, think Monk for one, get additional base movement. A 3rd level human monk has a base move of 40, other things being equal...

Unless they have plans to do a cross-license with a company that already has a working product, there is little chance that WOTC can design, develop, test, and deliver any kind of useful system in time for D&Dv5. During the WOTC era, we are averaging between 3 and 5 years between versions. We...