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Thanks for the advice, guys. Was hoping to hear there was a way to insinuate more damage into each knife attack, like a Weapon Finesse upgrade that rolls Dex into damage. But, doesn't sound like that's the case. I guess I could try to sell my DM on some old 3e PP's, like Invisible Blade and...

I'm torn here. On the one hand, this forum rarely fails to apall me with the sheer intolerance and animus directed towards those vile players who want their characters to be powerful. On the other hand, this particular player represents an extreme that makes what I would normally dismiss as...

I've been considering a halfling knife-fighter for my next character--a deadly a little fellow, no more to be trifled with than any falchion-wielding barbarian. Rogue/ranger with a favored enemy of human would be my preference. However, in 3e I recall this not amounting to a particularly deadly...

Oh, how dearly human beings love to have scapegoats. We gleefully denounce people as people as "pricks" for creating conflict, but we actually love responding in kind. Especially on the internet, and especially in this autism-magnet hobby of ours. The rules certainly do allow characters to know...

Clearly, the videos represent someone who wants a system that's more realistic and high-stakes than D&D is. D&D rejects realism and high stakes, so that's simply a mismatch between his goals and the game's. I do think he makes a good point that the system is not particularly flexible or robust...

Well, different strokes and all. A lot of folks want a superhero system to primarily deliver exciting battles. The melodrama of romantic relationships doesn't translate so well to RPG's IMO. I'd rather see the spirit of superhero combat really captured once and for all. Avengers Earth's Mighties...

Well, when it comes to connectivity, your options are constrained if you aren't willing to accept a dongle, which is tatamount to trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. How many people want to carry around a thumb drive, an SD card, a tablet, and then some other doodad that acts a bridge...

I didn't catch this. Would love to hear more (spoiler-free) opinions.

Way more than one website. Apparently, one Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities Research issued a note to his company's investors. Don't fret too much. After all, if Apple actually does make this move, it'll spontaneously go from "ridiculous" to "brilliant move, well-played, sliced bread move...

You don't buy into the concept of reading blogs, yet your sig directs people to your blog about gaming. :confused::confused:

So, for those Android users out there, let me ask you about podcasts. In contemplating trading out for an Android device, I have to wonder how much I'm taking for granted from being an iPhone user. For all of iTunes usability challenges, the iTune stoe is a boon in that it provides centralized...

By the way, I forgot to ask if you've checked out PlayOn? What's PlayOn? | PlayOn

And it was deemed that the distinction between past and present was mere semantics. That came as quite a shock for me personally. ;)

It performs like a Netbook (it's odd to me that we don't just naturally expect that to be the case). It can do browsing, light multimedia, that sort of thing. There's the usual trade-off where you gain multi-processing at the expense of overall performance. You have the standard burdens of a...

So anyhoo, my boss came by with his Fujitsu Q550 and was showing it off to everybody. It's a Window 7 tablet that I had never heard of. It was okay, having USB and SD ports and an OS that renders the concept of an "app store" a tad callow. You want to run Netflix or Hulu in a browser? This'll do...

Your choice of certain words is noteworthy. "Show dIsrespect", for instance. Heaven forbid that I show disrespect towards a consumer technology corporation. If someone here consistently exhibited disrespect to to Microsoft, you'd be as quick to call them on it? What you calll "slamming" is...

So, Apple is so good at business that they can bankroll anti-competitive tactics. Hmm. What is it we call it when other companies throw their weight around to keep others from getting their goods to market? It slips my mind, but it's not as flattering as "really good at business".

Not for nothing, but if you didn't want to talk about companies screwing each other, seems odd that you went out of your way to dispute my comment about Apple screwing Amazon. Seems to me that pro-Apple fawning is called out for jeopardizing the impartial nature of this discussion, but...

Here's my take on it. If I reach into the toilet-paper dispenser and find nothing there because Joe used up the last few sqaures a couple of minutes earlier, then I might well think that Joe screwed me on the TP. That assertion is regardless of whether it was a result of malice aforethought or...

That would be the best outcome for both consumers and poor, beleaguered Hulu. I remember seeing article last week that was entitled something like "Windows 8 could get Neftlix before Motorola Xoom". Sorry to come into the conversation late, but you're trying to watch this on Chrome? Is that...