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"I see your schwartz is as big as mine."

Well, Treebore's enough to sell ME off the game. I don't need anything that promotes that sort of attitude. This is a useful thread though: if someone asks me about the game, I can just forward them over to his posts here, and let them decide about the maturity of its fans.

Maybe I'm just too old school, but I just find it really bizarre that people regard helping other players out as "not fun". I blame White Wolf, frankly. ;)

The DM's guide has rules for 0-level characters; those would be close enough to apprentices for my taste. First level would then be journeyman status, where the master would keep the former apprentice on as an assistant- making it curious why so many wizards are off wandering the world. I...

It's worth pointing out that there can be other reasons than player lazyness for giving a character amnesia, in fact, I'd say the following are equally likely justifications: 1) I am sick and tired of the 14-page backstories you have us write. If I want to be an author, I'll write a book. 2)...

And well, she DID have Charisma listed as a dump stat. I actually find it interesting that people insist that all elves should look identical- like 1970's Californian porn starlets. Why NOT have an ugly elf for a character, especially when elves don't get a charisma bonus, and there's nothing...

Warforged are Version 2.0 of the D&D races. Soon all player characters will be upgraded to warforged. Any who refuse will be deleted. ....couldn't resist. Too much Dr. Who, recently.

Are you KIDDING? The font type in the chapter headings on the magic and creatures sections are TOTALLY different! And they used different border styles in the text boxes! That's a HUGE change! And you call yourself a CoC fan. :p

Play AD&D. You'll end with a party consisting of an Elven Fighter/Mage, Eleven Fighter Thief, Elven Magic-user Thief, and Elven Fighter/Magic-user Thief. And a dwarf.

There's already some perfectly serviceable alternative rules that cover this area: Defense Bonus Armor as Damage Reduction Even if this isn't quite what one is looking for, it's a good start. There's no need to go reinventing the wheel.

I have to think that the whole "Magic items should be rare and fantastical" is far more of a GM attitude than a player one. Specifically, GMs at a loss for bringing the fantastical into a game, and blaming one element. Admittedly, it's easier to railroad players the less magic there is: a...

I will NOT put to death the engineers of my compound. Not only is that bad for moral, but inevitably one of them will escape and provide the information the hero needs to infiltrate. Also, having competent people who know my compound will be essential in case of the inevitable emergency...

Yeah. it's started when they allowed Magic users" and "Clerics" as PC classes. I mean, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?!!? THEY RUINED THE GAME!!11!1 It's interesting that "average person" is pretty much translated out as "average fighter", moreso since the "average person" in D&D has never...

This is something I find a bit amusing, considering that I've seen mana systems for D&D for what, 25+ years now? When did the Arduin Grimores first come out anyway? Nearly every group I played with experimented with non-Vancian magic systems. I'd say a large portion of the D&D playing...

The obvious way to get around this problem is to do what I do: I call all of my characters "Dave", followed by their occupation. So, Dave Thefighter, Dave Themage, Dave ThepriestessofLolth, etc. This relates to a larger problem I've been seeing in games: player creativity. Not only is there...

That would imply that there IS something out of combat. From what I've been hearing, it's just going to be one combat after another, only pausng long enough to drink some water and eat some bread. Oh sure, maybe once a week or so the party will go to the auction house, but do you really need a...

I think that right there is probably the root of the discrepancy between my views of bards and the majority view of bards. I rarely if ever am involved in "kick in the door" style dungeon crawls, in fact the last three D&D campaigns I've been involved with were city ones with a lot of...

"Anime" is simply a more derogatory replacement for the term "cinematic", which thought he meaning is vague, seems to boil down to "characters are running around and doing stuff all wild like, not spending two hours planning how to take down a kobold like in the good old days." Running and...

Yes well, wizards and rogues don't count in these discussions. Characters who can be killed by a single crossbow shot don't exist, it's all fighters and barbarians.

At the anime con I went to this year, I noticed one major element of anime fans- they're young. Anime fans used to fit the SF/gamer/Geek stereotype, but over the last few years, as its gotten more popular, the fans look more like a skatepunk/rave/hip teen crowd. As for the gamer crowd at the...