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I think the Star Wars SAGA rules are a pretty good engine for d20 Modernish stuff. I tooled around a little bit with an adaptation that used the four classes from Alternity --- Diplomat --- similar to the SAGA noble Free Agent --- similar to the SAGA scoundrel and scout Combat Spec ---...

Another point - - - I wouldn't pay JUST for access to playtest-ready crunch, but the other Dragon articles all have been quite to my liking. Also, these sort of previews are particularly handy now in the early days of 4th Edition, when there are still a lot of areas the rules haven't covered...

So young and yet so bitter, Reg. For what it's worth, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to see in Dragon. The community always treats every new release as something to be playtested and analyzed and discussed . . . why not do it BEFORE the new material makes it into print? I guess...

Play in their sandbox, play by their rules. Try to avoid elf porn, and you should be alright. Any game creator who is really hung up on artistic integrity can make up their own damn game, right?

Loved it. My favorite game when I was 15. I only played SI, particularly with the Commando sourcebook. Did a lot of late-80s ninja / vigilante / Vietnam vet on a mission kind of stuff, which twenty years later all sounds goofy yet intriguing. Char gen was on a point buy system that in...

Welcome to the boards. Nope, no rules for sleeping in your armor, failing to brush your teeth, repairing your shield after combat, or how to take out a loan. Also no rules about not sleeping outside in the rain. Personally, I think insisting your PC sleeps in armor might lose you a healing...

Oh, good point re: powers. I like primal = rites.

Shadow = mysteries Ki = techniques Psionic = disciplines Primal = powers Elemental = invocations

I think that anything that makes your warlock look like an idiot instead of a master of strange infernal/fey/cosmic powers is probably pretty dicey. But whatever you can pester your DM into, I guess. While the idea of sacrificing a "worthy" but helpless foe to trigger powers makes a certain...

Raised by his grandfather, a respected if minor scholar based in Candlekeep, Tobias was blessed with a keen intellect and a voracious appetite for knowledge. He took a special interest in the adventurers who frequently consulted his grandfather, and absorbed every detail of their tales of...

You buy five at a time.

I have no problem accepting the idea that a battle-tested hero has all sorts of inner reserves and intangible qualities and general mojo that let him pull off incredible feats when the pressure is on. I also like the idea that anyone who is roleplaying a "sickly wizard" is probably not going to...

"Lack of communication"? Not a day goes by without some new info. There are blogs, there are playtests, there are preview books. In this day and age, it's amazing that they are ABLE to keep such a tight lid on things, but I don't see this as a bad marketing strategy.

They're getting away from the "humans as default culture" thing, so I would think when the dragonborn strides into town, it's more like . . . I dunno . . . living in downstate Illinois and meeting a Canadian. Maybe you never met a Canadian before, but you've heard about them. And you don't...

Godspeed, Gary. Your imagination has provided a playground for millions.

Done. I'm going to check out of this discussion...even if you are overreacting here, that's ultimately your call to make, and I suppose one should err on the side of caution.

Well, that and bawdy limericks.

Everything else is just comedy, Raven.

Not intended as such, Raven. The Satan part was a bit of a rhetorical flourish, that's all. But you did say something earlier about posting on Gleemax and then spending the rest of your life "waiting for the other shoe to drop," right? I just hate the thought that in the year 2058, you will...

Suit yourself, resistor. Maybe I'm spending too much time in the grownup world right now, because I'm thinking about the real purposes behind this sort of boilerplate user agreement, and the real world consequences, and not some sort of abstract moral issue or worst-case scenario. Raven, I...