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I'm pretty picky. I won't DM a game with evil PCs. I won't play in a game with evil PCs (with the possible exception of LE). I won't DM or play in a game with true "lone wolf" PCs. I won't DM or play in a game with explicit sex or sexual violence. I won't DM or play in a cyberpunk setting...

GenCon and D&D are inextricably linked, for me. First went in 1984 with my 1E group. There for 2E. Even though I dumped 2E in '91 or '92 and didn't get back to D&D until 2000 (3E), GenCon was somehow still D&D for me. Now that my D&D is technically called Pathfinder, GenCon is still all...

Okay, so y'all use it pretty much as a Complication. (I do, too, but I do allow doing it deliberately -- with an appropriate, usually physical, power -- at -2 to the attack. I even allow deliberate Knockback chains, at additional -2 per target.) In our session on Sunday, the Bay Area Freedom...

[Ah! Necromancy'd!]

I only made the forum page in Dragon. (I wrote a somewhat notorious analysis of just how badly the 3.0 ranger sucked. I was told at GenCon by one of the 3.0 designers that my breakdown spurred development of the 3.5 ranger.) I had a proposal accepted for the use of PDAs in D&D, and submitted...

There is a saying that "Pizza is like sex ... even when it's bad, it's still pretty good." I disagree strongly with that conventional wisdom when it comes to pizza. Bad pizza is an abomination against God, like women playing basketball or a tall-women/short-man relationship. I suspect that if...

Amazon.com. (Note that I don't work for Amazon and this isn't an ad. It's just super-cheap and I figured geeks like me would be interested.)

Do you just handle it on an ad hoc basis? What powers/descriptors can cause knockback? When do they? When don't they? (I'm not talking about comparing Damage to Toughness for the Knockback modifier, BTW. I'm talking more generally.) I finally settled on "I decide if a power can cause...

I am beginning to suspect that ELIZA has achieved sentience and is now posting in EN World. "How do you feel about that, Jeff?"

MEEP, MEEP! Zooooooom.

I'm not all that familiar with gestalt rules, but in a lot of ways AD&D multiclassing made you adhere to the worst -- or at least most restrictive -- drawbacks of a class. I was under the impression gestalt pretty much gave you the best of everything.

You didn't mention race. I'm betting you were playing either an anthropomorphic coyote or desert bird.

The irony is that this is a fairly common house-rule, and one that I've actually strongly considered.

Heh. For me, personally, a "nudge" is pretty much the definition of "non-confrontational."

Colin Farrell was fookin' great in that movie.

It seems very extreme (I guess I don't get why it's so difficult to nudge a cheater; unless he's a borderline sociopath (and sometimes even then), once he knows someone else knows, he'll stop doing it), but one thing a DM can do is this (two variations): (1) Place a d20 out of sight on a random...

I think the single rules section that gave (the most players) (the most trouble) was provocation of AoOs. I never really understood why it was so difficult for so many people to grasp, but it was, especially provoking by movement. Another huge one that we fell prey to (and that was pretty...

If he were as tough as Chuck norris, he'd have survived that.

I saw 18/00 rolled once. Of course, I saw 18/00 on character sheets several times ... (Best I ever did was 18/92, unless you count my half-ogre PC. Half-ogres got a big bonus -- forget what it was -- on the d% roll.) I did once roll 00 for psionics, though.

Not true. When I was much younger, I cheated my ass off in D&D. That stopped a long, long time ago. What people want from and get out of the game changes, and that it turn can eliminate (or create, I suppose) the desire to cheat. I think that cheating in an RPG is probably negatively...