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I'm pretty pro-pathfinder and I think it's kinda ghoulish to take pleasure in the wrongness of the 4e supporters. I am glad that Pathfinder is doing very, very well.

I'm surprised/impressed with Dragon Age.

I wonder if he (and thereby you) would benefit from a bit more structure. I know it's supposed to be a sandboxy campaign, but it sounds a bit linear to me. By structure I don't mean rules or hooks or "adventures" per se. I'm thinking of more motivation and understanding of your character...

Depending upon the size and shape there could be some air circulation. Some "smarter" dungeons actually recognize the air problem and players must take precautions. Some more "hand wavey" dungeons just assume breathing is possible. I like the idea of a fungus or mold that can live like a...

This is a great point. When my group switched from 3e to 3.5 the changes were niceish mostly, but not really exciting. When we switched from 3.5 to pathfinder, we, at least once a game session for a long time, exclaimed "whoah, nice change to the rules!" We said it so often that is sort of...

Here are two (admittedly simlar) strategies I think might work: 1. Sell thematic sets. Perhaps even include multiple of the same minis. E.G. I would buy an "undead set" with, say, 30 minis with a breakdown of: 3 unique vampires, 2 unique liches, 10 of the same skeleton, 10 of the same...

Both Wizards and now Paizo (or, really, Wizkids with a license from Paizo) chose to sell minis randomly. Paizo claims this is because some minis might be more popular than others and so some might lose money. But I'm not here to talk about either of those companies or their minis. I'm...

Does he do this for ALL fights, or did you observe it in a specific one? I WOULD do this as a dm with zombies, rats, most insects, and perhaps other things so mindless, insane (gibbering mouther, allip), or large (godzilla, who assumes things are dead, and can't really track which "ant" he...

Along the same vein, I've used the Greco-Roman gods and the planets named after them. Rather than planes, they lived on each planet, with Earth being the realm of mortals. So to "go to heaven" your soul literally did leave the earth and travelled through the sky and beyond.

Yeah, I'll definitely agree that no one should be mocking anyone else really in any game play, but particularly a DM to players. He might (or might not) be an ok DM, but it is beginning to sound like he might be a bit of a jerk to play games with if there's mocking (that's just poor/uncalled...

A caution: As always seems to happen in these threads, there is a fair amount of judgement against the person whose side we have not heard. We don't know the full story, and it's easy to write off the DM as horrible. But we don't have their side, and we don't even have a complete...

I guess I'm not as much of a Paizo fanboi as some might have otherwise thought, because: bleah. No thank you on the random minis. No. Thank. You.

Have a sit-down. This is a problem that isn't going to get resolved at the table. I actually advise against talking with the other players beforehand. (Meeting with them might not be particularly educative, and even if it is, it won't help you resolve the problem...it'll just fuel your...

I'll be the first to admit that fun is both subjective and has a lot of overlap with other concepts. However, unless it overlaps 100%, maybe we can come up with some other components of gaming that make tabletop gaming a sought after experience. I'll start: 1. Creativity (a creative outlet...

I just did searches for "essentials red box" and "dungeons and dragons" on the target website and it didn't show up. I was surprised to see 24 items actually come up for dungeons and dragons, including some 4e books. I've never seen anything in the store other than the red box myself, so I...

To answer AuldGrump: I think that WotC focusing on digital might be a good thing moneywise, but for me it would be a bad thing in terms of what I buy. Now, I only play a little 4e, so I only own the 3 core books and don't buy supplements or subscribe to D&Di. However, I follow the events...

I don't usually post just links, but check this out if you're a fan of either: 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways | Cracked.com Apparently there's some crossover between both Conan the Barbarian and Cthulhu.

I have never seen it in my gaming. That said, what about the use of fabricate and gems? In our world, a gem of double size is worth MUCH more than double the cost. Take ten very high quality diamonds and fabricate them into a single very high quality large diamond. In our world, that'd...

1. *head explodes* 2. *zombies eat brains* 3. *zombies play D&D with massive houserules centered on brain eating that don't map to any edition.* 4. *zombies have fun*

On the one hand, I agree. But on the other hand...if the rules were well playtested to begin with, and the paper copies of the books were more than "betas" then we shouldn't expect this degree of errata, right? In fact, a better way to sell books of quality might be to "beta" them to...