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3.5 handles the more usual cases better, and results in more consistent damage. It also avoided the 3.0 nomenclature, which had weapons at a different scale than creatures or objects. OTOH, the 3.0 approach was better for loot, better reflected a world where most player races were similar in...

The local comics store here has a big TV that promos a bunch of board game stuff all do. The videos are pretty cool.

Icons.

Thoughts on character creation: Random generation is fun, but sometimes is surprisingly hard. I just rolled up a Transformed guy with Strength 6, Animation, Force Field, and Telepathy. What do these things have in common? ... I decided he was possessed by out-of-phase aliens. Equipment... not...

Just posting some musings after re-reading it after having purchased it a couple of months ago. Very nice and lite implementation of Fate. Very cool. Quirky art style. Cool. Style agnostic, although leaning toward a Silver Age funnybook aesthetic. Would work fine for modern animated DC or...

Most my campaigns start with a rough sketch of about the nearest 300 miles. It usually serves. I don't see a problem with using the Faerun maps, major geographic divisions, and so forth, just as I said, it wouldn't be my inclination. If I had more of an emotional attachment to a setting I...

For Star Wars, I'm a stickler for both trilogies canon, but I treat the EU far less reverently. Otherwise, it wouldn't be Star Wars. In practice, I wouldn't fun a Faerun campaign. If I were going to use a published setting, I would want to juice all I could out of it, including all the...

Valley View Mall is suddenly looking very empty. Game Chest is gone, with little warning. Does anyone have more information than that?

I wouldn't bother with sorcerer. If you're that crazy about that idea of slinging some arcane spells, just take Skill Focus (UMD) and call it a day. I usually dump Dex to some degree anyway. After all, you can lose your Dex bonus to AC, but Wisdom is forever. Unless I'm doing something funky...

Very awesome. I still don't get $24.95 playing cards, though. EDIT: These are nice, though: Poker Deck Made with Gold

The conceptual problem is that exploring the fictional material is a metagame goal.

Not necessarily, but potentially. The trump of the "fate point" discussion is the game Torg. In Torg, Possibility Points represent literal reality-bending energy. This energy is fuelled, in part, by belief, particularly, storytelling. And of course, the player is mostly in charge of spending his...

Maybe I'm a bastard, but when I find out people are peeking, my first impulse is to provide misleading information. I would honestly use a map that would result in multiple, brutal PC deaths if peeked upon. I mean, if they're not going to be serious, why not have some fun at their expense? It's...

The GM is using talking only to resolve those encounters, I hope he is having the NPCs respond to you each according to your ostensible persuasive abilities.

Yes. The only PH heroes out of any of the sets I even like are the person with a staff from the Divine Heroes set, and a woman with a scimitar (there are paint problems, but easily fixed; I just like the pose) from I believe the Primal set.

If that's too technical then you can jettison the db scale. Every time you add complexity, it should add fun to the game. Either the complexity needs to be fun, or the complexity should be justified by adding something to the game that is fun. Using a decibel scale, independent of other, much...

I tried to withdraw my balance a while back, but I don't think it actually returned to me. PM sent with details.

If you liked some of the early peeks of 4e, I think it could conceivably be a worthwhile purchase. However, even in that case, there is a fair amount that changed, IIRC, between the preview books and the final version.

Like Tammy Faye putting on her makeup while driving.

I'm so sporadic I didn't even know for sure it was still being written... :)