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I really like the minion rules in theory, but in practice I'll make a small change: At Heroic level, a successful hit kills a minion if it does at least 3 hp damage. At Paragon level, the minimum damage raises to 6, and at Epic, it raises to 9. If a successful hit does less than the mimum...

I've always found the alignment system to be a great shorthand for describing a character's general attitude about the universe, but I can see why some folks would play without any alignment system at all. Part of the problem (besides folks disagreeing about the definitions of...

So close... If you see the Chaos and Law as universal concepts, then you're probably going to have trouble with the old D&D alignment system. The solution is to see only the Good-Evil axis as universal--as someone stated earlier, Good and Evil are forces in the universe, and how you act places...

Nope. If I had my druthers, I'd only play face to face. However, with home and work responsibilities, and a lack of fellow players in the area...well, looks like we're fresh out of druthers. Thats why I currently play a weekly OpenRPG game on Thursdays, and a Monday-Wednesday game with...

Before folks start pointing fingers and claiming that others were Chicken-Littling the topic of the GSL, its important to note that despite the fact that the *wording* of the GSL hasn't changed, (according to Linae), clearly stating that the GSL is *product-line* based and not *company* based is...

On the fence This is why I can't wait until I have the 4e books in hand: As written, I much prefer the 3.5 cleave. Its just as simple as the 4e version, ("If you drop a foe to 0 hp, you can make an attack on an adjacent foe" is pretty simple to me). It also makes more sense to me in a...

Why not hexes? After reading this and a few other threads on the 1-1-1-1 debate, my only question is: Why not hexes? With hexes, you can use 1-1-1-1 with no problem, and can have organically shaped effects, (i.e., no firecube spells). The downsides, as far as I can see them...