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I'm not sure we really even need a book of this sort. Even the people who want to explore these themes - they don't need game rules for it. I'm sure there are other, better sources, that can be adopted into roleplay that takes place at the table, with the clothes on, rather than other parts of...

Since I've been in MMO land so much these days, this is reminding me of having a character there specialized too deeply in filling just one single, even if vital, role in a group. The problems arise when you don't have your group there with you. That's very common in online computer games, but...

Always been this way for me. Even when I was in very active groups - it just meant I was reading even more... I think a lot of the -kick- for this hobby for many is the reading.

A small culture item. Like some short lists. 3 favorite foods, local costume (fashion), coming of age ceremony, a few games locals play, the preferred beverage, common greetings, 3 ways to get into a fight you didn't mean to get into, 3 ways to win someone over. Short bullet point lists in 3s...

Cali's a big state, with a diverse set of opinions. Now which part of Cali are ya'll talking about? Personally... all I know is 4E is about the point where my gaming group died. Multiple reasons for that, and a disagreement over system choice was only one of them.

Don't compare 4E to past versions of DnD. When I think of an at-will magic missile, I think of how, in most other RPGs as well as in most computer games, my magical character has something on her list she can spam. Be it 'wanding' in World of Warcraft, or casting that low rank fire-bolt in...

GSL: No sex. No gore. No racism. Pathfinder: No "adult content," offensive, or inappropriate for minors. - technically, Pathfinder is more restrictive in that it is vaguer - and thus could capture more, but it allows-by-omission racist content, such as the d20 Solid! (blaxploitation) book that...

Probably just a preemptive avoidance of a Pathfinder book of erotic fantasy... If you want respect, the last thing you want is to be associated with porn. On the other hand, if you want commercial success, the first thing you want is to be associated with porn... :p

Zip codes here radiate out. Everyone in a metro region will share the first 2 or 3 numbers, and two adjacent codes will just have the last number different. So it is a handy way for gauging 'viable distance'. Example: LONG URL of google image search If I see a 940xx or a 941xx, I know that...

Yes, but... What if I live in Oakland, you live in Berkeley, and another player lives in Emmeryville, and a GM in Richmond wants to start a game. Which city does he pick? All of those are within 1-5 miles of each other - and all share the same game shop. They're close enough that decades...

Anytime something people have a lot of vested emotion in radically changes you get camps of people dedicated to defending tradition and camps dedicated to advocating for change. When it is the 'powers that be' that iniates the change it becomes even more muddled, as you get the traditionalist...

The most useful thing I could think of adding to the search tool for this would be the ability to search by the first three numbers of a zip code, and to sort the results by zip code. That would be particularly useful for people living in large cities: San Francisco area, LA area, New York...

Take a look at Guild Wars: Nightfall. This semi-MMO that came out last year has a north African norm for its setting. Most of the NPCs look African. They kind of remind me of the features of people from Sudan. In character creation you can a range of skin tones you can pick, from light to...

I -DO- find it frustrating to see a lack of diverse artwork in DnD, and it -does- impact my interest in playing the game. Quite often I have to will myself back after feeling pushed away... It only gets worse when I try, in utter futility, to explain it to the caucasian gamers I know or to...

There are a lot of differences in feel between GURPS and DnD. The note on faster rounds, slower movement above is one of the biggest 'smacks to head' you'll get when you jump into a GURPS combat for the first time. In looking at the books you might come away thinking an archer, who gets 1 shot...

That just goes to one of the things that frustrates me in this whole powers concept. If you integrate perform into the class, then you have to start asking why only a bard can manage a ballroom dance or play the violin... On the notion that being born with magic is somehow X-Man like, that...

The problem for the sorcerer is that if it goes striker that's the warlock, and if it goes controller that's the wizard. Biggest complaint people used to make about Sorcerer in 3E was that it filled the same purpose in the party as a Wizard. 4E should change that. But if it does, what to make...

My biggest complaint about GURPS for fantasy has always been a too pre-defined magic system. 4E was a bit better than the past attempts with some of the on the fly casting options, but still not open enough for me to define a system as would fit a setting I might conceive. I'll have to flip...

I would say that this is essentially what they have done. GURPS has as much in common with 'the traditions of DnD' as 4E does. The same claim cannot be made about 3.xE however. 4E is the first time a game claiming to be DnD dropped a large number of the 'sacred cows' and at the same time...

GURPS is Hero with all the powers and disadvantages prebuilt and a lot of the flexibility removed. Its not a bad game, but in playing it one is often left to wonder, "why am I not just playing the game this is obviously a tool-down of?"