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the results for my real name are boring and apply to other people, but the ones for my screenname are great: tauric is the lost heir to the imperial throne tauric is now emperor tauric is a great idea Now, if I am emperor, and such a great idea, why does noone do what I tell them to do?

Hey all, Please put me down for the CoC game. I've never played before, but I've read Lovecraft, so it should be (horrifying) fun. I would also like to play in a morning game, both sound great, but they seem to be full, so I'll just watch. Altalazar, it'd be great if you could make it, then...

Heh, I had some friends from Waverly High who came up with LA. I've made it back okay (got in day before Christmas) but I'm not ready to play yet (need to find job). As for style, I play whatever the DM throws at me. As a DM, I like to have character/character interaction and character/NPC...

Okay, so on another post my "why homebrew" post I got some good advice about how to get players to accept changes to the established canon. One piece of adive, oft repeated, was do it gradually. Another was limit handouts, as players rarely read them. What I would like to know now, is how to...

Thanks BardStephenFox! Knowledge checks will finally be useful. I always want to have players use bardic knowledge, but they never play bards. I think I had players like Luddite's, because our other DM had the same problem with his homebrew (with all the same players). (He was the one that...

Altalazar, I'm moving back home to LA (Lansing Area) next week, and would like to get involved with a game. Perhaps we can get in touch once I get there and we can see if our styles are compatable (compatible?).

Thanks guys for your input. The question for me was really mever why to homebrew, but rather how, at least as far as getting players to accept my rules. So, the advice I'm getting is to keep handouts short and infrequent, introduce changes and new bits gradually, and let player have a hand in...

The players (most of them) were good players, getting into character and giving them personality. They just didn't seem to (as EternalKnight said) care about the setting. They were interested in the storyline, interacting with the NPCs and picking up plot hooks (even one's I just threw out as...

Neither of which is a bad thing, for me. I'm uncomfortable with the magic level of DnD, but have had bad luck trying to tone it down. I'm thinking that if I just make the same spells available, but a bit more (more not greatly so) difficult to cast, then my players won't rely on magic so much...

As I was posting my question about making magic distinctive, I asked myself "Self, why even bother? The players either won't care, or complain." At least, those two reactions are what I have experience with homebrew campaigns. I tried to make a world where the different races had certain...

In my homebrew world that I am creating, I want to give sorcerers, bards, and clerics distinctive ways of casting (I am not having the wizard class in my campaign). I was thinking of making sorcery a tattoo based magic. Each spell is tattooed on the body, and to cast the spell the sorc must...

Many of these movies (Robin Hood, UHF, Big Trouble) I watch without any guilt. Movies I am reluctant to admit liking (face to face that is, on a messageboard I seem to have no trouble :p ): Starship Troopers Star Wars ep II Entrapment (oh, the laserbeam training scene...)

Oh god, Brian's Song makes me cry so much (the original, anyway, the recent remake was crap, the actors had no screen presence). Old Yeller is another one that turns on the waterworks. Other movies that make me tear up, if not outright cry, are Bladerunner (the roof scene), Casablanca, and...

I'm moving to the Lansing area in the next few weeks. I would like to attend gameday, but I don't know if I will be able to (depends on what kind of employment I can get). If I can make it but all the PC spots are filled, is it acceptable to watch? (DnD as a spectator sport :) )

Yeah, this happens to me. Take ER for example. Everybody I know hates Romano (and so are happy with recent events), but wish I had is cajones. Same thing with Dr. Cox on Scrubs. I have the same disdain for banal niceties that those two characters had, yet I do not have their job security...

Really, this should be a multiple choice poll, because I would like to see Bronze age, noir detectives, WWI & II.

I just remembered some more of my favorites, both my Groundskeeper Willy: "Shut up, ya bunch of cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!" "Oh, ya talk like a poet, but ya punch like one too!"

Well, I was less impressed with ep2. If they turn this into a series, I may not watch it now, for two reasons: Boxey and Sexbot. I know the kid actor didn't get much screen time, but the whole idea of Boxey is just weak. If this BSG is going to be grim and gritty, like is seems, then the...

While I like this forum, because as (I think it was) Tom Cashel said, it's nice to be able to talk to your gaming buddies about more than just gaming, I don't think OT polls are a good idea. I was convinced of this by the ridiculous cheese eating poll already posted. Also, I don't like the...

I agree with Skade, I thought the baby killing was an unintentional result of the Cylon not understanding infant physiology. I still don't like #6, though. I really liked the space battle scenes, because the sound effects are muted, which is the closest I'm gonna get to my dream of no sound in...