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*sigh* look, I'm going to guess you mean well, but yeah... I do know there's other games out there. I play them, I run them, and I've been doing it for the past 20 years. "Play a different game" isn't an especially useful answer. It mainly come across as "OMG!! You're BadTouching my game! Go...

I've never gone there and I don't expect to go there in the future either. Here's the description of the forum: I don't generally like listening to other people talk about how awesome their character is. It's boring to me. It's like listening to someone talk about how awesome their kid or cat...

So, I'm a big fan of E6. If you're not familiar with the premise, you can find it here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/206323-e6-game-inside-d-d.html Now, before you go clicking the "reply" button, take a second to read the background so that the question (and therefore...

Nice to know I'm not the only mini-free GM for 4E. The idea of doing lego-minis is vaguely appealing, but on the whole I personally don't run with minis, regardless of the edition or game.

So, I've got the DM Tool Kit from lvl99 games and think it's a decent enough program. It's got some decent enough potential and while it might not be as "awesome" as running a game using a full laptop is concerned, I think it's useful enough that I don't regret the money spent on it. Like a lot...

Your first sentence in the quote above? That's kind of the answer. Everybody just wants to get on with things. As a GM, I don't think it's my "job", nor my responsibility, to "keep the sense of wonder alive". My job is to help the players craft an interesting story featuring their characters...

Well in part because, as I said before, I live in New Zealand so international shipping (if available to here) is usually a killer on the cost, plus the exchange rate, plus the fact that I'd prefer electronic instead of physical, plus the fact that I'm not interested in just buying a game...

For the past few years I've been on a "5 books or $150 for a game line". I am not the target market for WotC.

You know how Hit Points are Xd8 (or whatever) and then maybe there's some extra HP added on? Chop 'em down. Use lower hit points or go with "x number of hits" to take down a critter. In other words, use minions. I was doing minions long before 4e came around. Use 'em, love 'em. They make for...

Another vote for Google Groups. I set one up and even though we had an agreed night, I could send out a reminder email easily enough, have character sheets stored online, and keep the houserules doc there as well. Questions about the game or whatever could easily take place too.

Thanks for the feedback folks. Hmmm. Some general comments... It looks like the retro-clones are mainly focused on cloning the game. I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise given the "clone" part, but I'd had some hopes there was a bit of...innovation?... happening. On the other hand, it's pretty...

So you did. Sorry, I missed that since it was at the end of your post and you had those examples. I just noticed you talking about "take 10" in your original post and then it looked like you had some support examples to illustrate what you were talking about. My bad.

Howdy folks. By and large I haven't paid too much attention to the retro-clone stuff for a variety of reasons. But I've recently started thinking about doing a "standard" dungeoncrawling game at the local gameclub. It's a monthly meeting and I'm a fairly busy fellow, which combined with the...

All I care about is the game. The brand is worthless to me, except as a "shorthand" for what to expect in the game. So for example, I hear "Call of Cthulhu" and I instantly know to avoid those GMs and games. Not because I dislike "horror" games, but because I dislike the usual premise of CoC...

Totally with you. I don't have and don't plan on ever having a DDI account. Hmmmm. "Structure" of the original source material.... that's a bit shaky. Mainly because previous editions have had a different structure. For example, AD&D relied on characters getting XP for gold. Lots of GMs...

I definitely agree with you on both of these points. It's one of the reasons why I'm... ambivalent.... about the whole Essentials thing. Hmmm. I honestly don't know. Given some of what I see, I'd certainly be willing to say that they're "gamers" in the sense that they _used_ to play/run games...

If you're referring to the bit that I linked to at the d20 SRD, then yeah it works fine. It's been discussed a number of time before and the agreement is that 12 should be used instead of 11 (which the rules say to use, not 10). Speeding up the game.... it sorta does I guess. Personally I found...

He should have provided a link to make it easier for people to follow his conversation. I belive it's from UA and they've got it up on the d20 Hypertext SRD. You can find it here: Players Roll All The Dice :: d20srd.org It's also been noted that the base number that should be used is 12 not 11...

Of course, another aspect is "does this change need to be done?" 1st, a "cleaning up of the vast mess/wealth of 3.5E and OGL product." by WotC really isn't possible. Any OGL product is pretty much beyond their control. If there's (or was since the d20 license was scrapped) crap out there with...

Heh, a look at rule-lawyering death. I suppose next up is rules regarding... let's call it bodily functions... since there's various rules about ingesting stuff and eating, but nothing regarding the other half of the cycle. Maybe that's why goblins are cranky and green.