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And I don't think any of this has any bearing on that feel of [roll = swing]. I guess, maybe if you're someone who knows a lot about melee combat, but it's all about that feeling that when you're rolling the dice, you're actually swinging the sword. Whether this is realistic doesn't matter. I'm...

Nevermind, thread moved on while I wasn't looking.

It won't. It won't star any of the SHIELD characters from the movies, except maybe as cameos/recurring. It will focus on low-level SHIELD operatives. Joss Whedon's brother will showrun. Some people have speculated that Item 47 was a backdoor pilot of sorts to the TV show.

That's how I treat 4e skills. We've dislodged skills from ability scores. 1. The player describes the action. 2. The DM (that would be me) decides if there's a need for a roll. 3. I call for an ability check. 4. The player chooses a skill to use, unless I veto it.* * I'll usually allow a skill...

Sure, but I don't think that's the point. I believe he's talking of the association in your mind between [ rolling the die = swinging the sword ]. It's that directness between the action in the fiction and the mechanical resolution; that it feels like you're swinging the sword when you're...

I've gone back and forth on how I want skills in D&D to be. I slightly prefer the 4e way to the 3e way (mostly because of the binary nature of skill training), but both leave me dissatisfied. I always assumed I'd like broad skills better (because I tend to prefer broad skills), but I've come to...

That's how I understood it: The last few episodes have been taking place during this episode.

I do, but I just approximate it depending on how difficult I found the encounter. What do you think would make a good rule, 3-4 'sub-minions' per minion? I have so far only rolled out these sub-minions four times and I don't have a great handle on judging the difficulty yet. The second time I...

I use minions to a) eat up party resources, b) get in the PCs' way and c) let them feel like awesome action heroes. A few sessions ago they mowed through a sea of zombies to get to the necromancer who raised them. They went completely nova and ended up killing nearly 60 of them in four rounds...

Rather than toughening up minions, I made them weaker. I like throwing buttloads of minions at the party, requiring them to hack and slash through swarms of them, but I find the actual swarm rules unsatisfying for hordes of humanoid-ish critters (although I find them fine for swarms of rats or...

When I said C&C, it was less because I thought Next was such a huge callback to 1e and more because 'Old School + d20 = C&C'. I could probably have pointed at some other game that does the same (like the now popular DCC), if I had any experience with any of them. If I were to quantify Next more...

The Essentials Thief is a beautiful construct, though. Well oiled machine of a class and on the brink of being overpowered.

I've only read through the core book once, but Castles & Crusades is a contender, I think. Or if it wasn't for it's lack of levels: Pathfinder Beginner's Box.

I love Tom Baker. So much. Both Tennant and Matt Smith give him a run for his money, though. I have a lot of fondness for Hartnell, Troughton, Davison and Eccleston. Especially Troughton, but their order in a list will always vary with my mood or time of day. Pertwee is a special case...

Personally I'm still waiting for the audio book version. But this seems like a job for Piratecat !

Depends on what system you're converting to and how you approach it. Not all systems need everything statted out.

Here is a handy chart with damage and such pre-recalculated for you.

One of my favorite campaigns ever was a Planescape campaign run in Mage: The Ascension. Fit like a glove. Before 3e came out, we had played D&D-esque fantasy in GURPS for years. We used 2e books as supplements.

The Icelandic term for RPGs is "spunaspil" which translates directly to "improv-game". The generic term for a gamemaster is "spunameistari" ("improv-master"), which in a funny twist of fate, has in recent years also been coined as the term for a spin doctor.