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Not picking on you, I just see this a lot: so what about big cities? We here in NYC used to have playspace at Neutral Ground (they closed and moved, in the opposite order) and, ages ago, in Forbidden Planet (they remodeled and got a whole lot less friendly, not to mention losing their entire...

pfft, accuracy and fairness in rulings. It's true. Though I'd contend that with the addition of two stunts: Evocation Prereq: An aspect that indicates your fluency with magic such as Pyromancer or Artificer of a Thousand Quarrels or Student of Demonologist C'heryl. Effect: You may use Resolve...

Sorta, but it's not even across that range. The chance of rolling a +4 is 1/81, whereas the chance of rolling a nat'l 20 is more like 1/20 (well, a-duh). In any case, something like 65% of the rolls are between -1 and 1 in SotC. If you assume that the math should scale directly, bad things will...

The obvious ones. I usually do it via verbal tic -- "The squat, heavily muscled gobelin chieftain's enormous bronze axe gleams dully in the light of the bonfire. His twelve minions cavort in the dark fringe around the light". That the chieftan is prideful or a coward, however, I wouldn't lay...

I've never tried it, but you'd have to be pretty draconian in terms of when you allow aspect tags/invoke. I think you'd lose a lot of the fun. Consider the following play snippet (it really happened in my game): DM : The gobelin leader howls to his minions to "attack" and hits you with his axe...

Now, that's a little unfair. I think it depends on how decomposed you are/how unholy you appear. Even in your classical campaign, PCs return from the dead quite a lot; it's pretty easy to pass yourself off as "Yesh, the cleric got to me a bit later than I'd have preferred." Your gold and silver...

Makes sense. You can usually find something to use as a club in a scene, so you only really need the aspect if it's a really defining part of who you are. Your take on it sounds fun and is definitely reasonable. Purely a matter of taste. As a DM, I can't really think of any situations where I'd...

Note that I wouldn't compel BONK! with an attack from behind as a DM -- that seems unfair, since the player probably intends that they be the BONKer, and others be the BONKee -- but I might compel it in a fight with a fairly slippery foe to do some collateral damage, to have a villain frame your...

Make 'em up, far as I know. But most villains are really weenie (mooks/animal companions, which really consist of only 1 number, their quality), with a few named villains who are built as characters. The D&D player within me rebels, despite the stylishness of not needing to look anything up :)

Oh, I'm waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Also waiting for Turn Coat to come out in paperback, for that matter. ;) I've been toying in my free time with making up my own Menace Manual for SotC -- annotated fantasy bestiary with aspects & skill layouts. The only thing that's stopped me is that...

"wonderfully" -- given what of your personality I've been able to glean from your posts, I'd be amazed if you didn't enjoy it :) The rules-light nature can sometimes get on my nerves a little ("Whaddya mean I don't get a bonus for attacking from above without expending a resource?!"), but in a...

Another vote for psionic out of the options available. In the pulp consciousness, psionic has always (for me?) been associated with The East, making this not that much better than "ki", except for being a more socially acceptable solution with _way_ more actual sense behind it (c.f. arguments...

I voted... and then remembered I had to log in. No idea whether my vote counted. It seems like China Mieville is under-read, if so :) "Vance"? "Leiber"? "Howard"? "Moorcock"? Who are these people? I kid, but only a little. Never read them, never came across their books while browsing, and I...

Where'd the names come from?

Yeah, me too. What are these?

Alternity, Dragonlance SAGA, a few WoD, and most importantly, Spirit of the Century. I can't plug it enough :)

While that would be really cool, it seems like a lot of work for relatively little payout -- given that the pixellation at that point must be killer. I'm guessing that the vast majority of it can be described in more simple terms -- 20' x 25' rooms, 10' wide by 100' long corridors, and so on...

... yeah, their relationship is more complex than a reading of the webcomic alone gives you. That's a facet of it, but there's a lot more there. It's kind of brilliant. It's worth picking up Start of Darkness if you can spare the cash.

Tangent! I would wager ENWorld has a lot of lurkers; you can't tell whether or not that's true, of course, because definitionally they don't post (much|at all). I should know; I am one :)

Check the DMG. You're 100% wrong :) He's known as the Chained God, and is a deity.