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I print out a calendar, and write events into the dates. My homebrew has a year of 13 months, with 13 signs to the zodiac. One day a year is given over to God, and does not count as part of the year. Some faiths celebrate that day as midsummer, others as midwinter. The older faiths celebrated...

Not terrain, exactly, but some thought as to the fates of those who are unfortunate enough to go overboard during battle - whether it is sharks, the lucky discovery of a bit of floating debris, the horrible fate of returning as one of the wandering dead - to stalk the deck of the ship that once...

Reaper Miniatures is giving away a free mini with every order of $25 or more. But all the free minis are out of production limited editions.... Today's was a post-apocalyptic Sophie from 2007. On the 18th is a figure that I have been trying to get for a while - Bourbon St. Sophie. I intend to...

I can agree with the second part, even if I have my doubts about nostalgia - the innovations made for 4e have made it the number two role playing game.... (An engineer will tell you that most innovations fail. A biologist will tell you that engineers are optimists.... :p ) But an open playtest...

For me it is closer to a lukewarm 'Maybe. It can hardly be worse than 4e is for me, anyway.' The worst that can happen is that I won't be interested - which is already the case with 4e. Either way, I will still have Pathfinder. This is just me, mind. If you like 4e then go have fun. I guess...

Yeah, that does make a bit of a difference, doesn't it?... :-S The Auld Grump

A couple of minor corrections to your review - Surprise is in the Beginner's rules (Hero's Handbook pp. 54) as is Charging (pp. 58). Good review, aside from those. The Auld Grump

I see that there is no mention of the Pathfinder material that Mongoose was considering for 2011.... Ah well, I was hoping for a return of the Quintessential series. :( As for 5e.... I think 2013 may be on the money, for the announcement at least. Whether it will release in 2013 or 2014...? I...

Nar, no slapping - I just ridicule them on internet forums.... :p The Auld Grump - did I tell you about the near TPK when most of the party decided to try swimming the Rhine in flood? The only one that lived was also the only one with the swim skill....

I favor PCGen - mostly because Lone Wolf has ticked me off twice too many. The most recent was the whole foofaraw with the name Army Builder and the Privateer Press forums.... Look it up... for a company that relies on other people's IP for their main product, Lone Wolf was strangely touchy...

Ditto. There are players that just don't understand that the environment can be as dangerous as the monsters. Likewise, almost killing somebody with modifiers for trying to climb down a cliff in the sleet and freezing rain. He fell, dropped into the negatives, but still survived. The rest of...

The thing that I always try to bear in mind is that sometimes it is the low stats that bring the best fun. My first 3e character had an 18 Intelligence, an 18 Charisma... and an 8 Strength and a 7 Wisdom. A bit of a con man, a big-ideas-at-the-spur-of-a-moment man, but no foresight whatsoever...

The bad news is that you can't raise an animal's Int above 2 - from the D20PFSRD - Animal An animal is a living, nonhuman creature, usually a vertebrate with no magical abilities and no innate capacity for language or culture. Animals usually have additional information on how they can serve...

The player being insightful just means that the character will be able to roll on Sense Motive, since the player has remembered to ask. Way back when I had a player that would pretty much ignored botches on such things (Storyteller system) - if he got a botch he would ignore what I told him...

Whoo hoo! I was number 52 out of those 222 odd folks that purchased the dragon, so not all that much longer for me to wait. :) They were only expecting to sell about two dozen of the beasts.... The Auld Grump

I just delivered the most expensive RPG purchase that I ever saw - and I was part of the expense. A combination Christmas and Anniversary gift that two of my players got each other. At their request I did the fellow up as a red dragon, though I picture it more as a blue. For myself... I...

Peace on Earth. Good will towards men. And a pony. :p Seriously... from an RPG stand point, not much, aside from a few miniatures. A goodly supply of Army Painter supplies might be the most useful. Sort of the gamers equivalent of socks and sweaters - boring, but something that will see...

One of the good things about Pathfinder - you can use nearly all of the old 3rd edition book Dungeon Master for Dummies (2006). A very good starting point. The Auld Grump

Ick! Both as a GM and a player, that would annoy the heck out of me. Failure should be an option! If you pull the players around by the nose then they will not thank you for it. A mystery is better when handled as a flowchart - not all the clues lead to the same place, and some clues can be in...

World Works Games has a 25% off sale on their PDF terrain sets. Lately I have been using their Titan sets for Vaults in a tabletop Fallout game. The Auld Grump