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I kind of wish it had more substance, but I appreciate the mild Planescapeyosity that appears to be in the background of these articles.

I haven't seen that many intentional intra-party kills. Here's my story, which I consider being killed by a party member, even though she didn't perform the killing blow. So way back in 3.X, I was in a party that contained no healers except for the Druid. I was playing a wizard, and an...

Wait, so you're telling me that even though I have 13 ranks in Perform (flute) these clowns with like 5 ranks in Perform (pop music) make more gold than me with a lower check?

I just wanted to express that I somehow thought this post was related to some kind of American Sign Language board game. That is all.

I hated that book, but I don't think it scared away anyone who, frankly, wasn't already a geek. If you're already a female gamer (gamefem?), you're not really the target audience, in my opinion.

Remember that you don't have to roll a natural 20 -- the roll is actually DC 20. I've actually made a human character who maximized her saving throw modifiers just so I could be able to pull this off more often!

I have played both a very lawful good, not-very-smart, and forthright swordswoman, and also a scatterbrained, duplicitous, and rather battily brilliant wizard. Both times I have been accused of playing them too much like myself.

I basically feel like I don't understand the math enough to fudge in 3E. One interesting thing that I read is that, if I remember correctly, the CR system in 3E was actually built through testing -- in other words, throwing an N-level party against a monster and determining how easy or hard it...

I'm terribly excited about this book. Go spelljamming!

Huh, you're right. I stand corrected. Interesting to see "Beast Form" and "Implement", incidentally.

I notice that the at-wills are in some cases strictly better than a comparable wizard at-will, e.g. flame seed vs. cloud of daggers.

I was under the impression that the original system was Dungeons and Dragons, and that Sword World was the subsequent custom-built system for the setting.

I'm immensely curious about the abilities of the Dark Wanderer epic destiny.

I think that's the key difference, though, and it's actually something fundamentally elemental to the system. A bit "Fortune in the Middle." I don't know, I get the impression that the design process for martial powers often starts with "Wouldn't this look cinematically really cool?" After...

I wouldn't call it "empowerment", I'd call it "control." Basically the ordinary order of operations is inverted -- rather than narrative pre-conditions allowing a maneuver to occur, the maneuver itself creates its own narrative pre-conditions. In terms of who has a hand in how the narrative...

I think it's very clear what powers represent; I suspect you just don't like it, which is fine. Especially for martial-type powers, there's a shift in control of the narrative from the GM to the player. If you want tight control of narrative -- that is, if you create the sandbox and you don't...

Not a great argument. .NET 3.0 and 3.5 are essentially 2.0 with nifty stuff bolted on; thus all your 2.0 and 3.0 apps should run just fine on 3.5, barring bugs and things the developer did that doesn't match interface contracts, for example.

As a discussion about Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the word "videogame-y" approaches one.

Hey Scott, Thanks for joining in the discussion, and welcome to the boards. I realize that your current focus is board games, but if you're interested in having someone run a demo game of D&D at your store, consider this a standing offer. Until then -- perhaps you'd be interested in taking a...

I'd probably use "confused" more than offended, but I suppose it's six of one, seven of the other.