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Just got Rogue Galaxy a few days ago for the PS2, and am still hammering away at NWN2 on the PC.

As a side note to what Vig said... I'm writing a heist caper. As part of my research, I'm watching a lot of heist shows. One of them (since cancelled -- not very good) shows two guys showing up at night to rob an art store. The first thing they do is go across the street and cut a cable (and...

You're right. It is irresponsible, insensitive, rude, and wrong to say that every cop on the force is like that, and I apologize. Rather than devolve this into politics, I'm mailing you offline with my response.

So long as it makes sense in the game, yes. Here, it doesn't. The explanation given for having the shotgun in the church, for a supposedly peaceful meeting, in a world that as far as the player knew was horror-free, is garbage. This wasn't the archaeologist on the dig site. This wasn't a PI on...

Frankly (to go wtih Harmon and try to get back on topic), I think it's a question of style. CoC is a game that you need to play with the right style, or else you're just playing D&D with an underpowered character and some bummerific rules about your sanity, and where it's going to be going quite...

Things like grafitti and flyers? People had better watch out for crosses and flowers left near intersections where traffic fatalities have occurred. If you see a cross or a bouquet of flowers left unattended, remember that it could have a bomb attached to it, and call the authorities. Anyone in...

In the big campaign I ran starting when 3E first came out, one player went from 1st to 20th. Everyone else either joined later, died and remained a level behind, or gave up XP for some reason (item creation, house-ruled way of becoming a half-dragon, that kind of thing). Most were in the 18-19...

A suspicious package that is obviously electronic in nature? Sure. That merits a solid reaction. A flat sheet of plastic with no packaging room for explosives to be carried? That pretty clearly looks like an ad. I'm not saying that the line isn't fuzzy. I'm saying that that isn't in the fuzzy...

But when "you" (in this case, not you, but certain players) make a character be a gun-toting sharpshooter despite the fact that the GM said "Normal people -- you know nothing about Cthulhu yet," that's frustrating for the people who didn't try to game the system. And that's what this is. This...

I'm enjoying turning undead in Neverwinter Nights -- I turn, and my wife the ranger whacks them as they cower while I go deal with the enemy boss. Everybody is happy. And I got through Hordes of the Underdark with what ended up being a Cleric3/Bard24 -- with a Wisdom of 8. :) "Turn Undead" was...

Base damage of a dagger = 2.5, and base damage of a greataxe = 6.5. Not quadruple, no, but sizeable as differences go. It's been awhile since I tinkered with this system, and I don't have the numbers handy. I could well be off -- or I might not have balanced it well to begin with. I do...

I played around with something like this. What I did was, more or less: No more randomized damage based on weapon value. Instead, every weapon has a given damage multiplier based on its original damage: 1d4 = x0.5 1d6 = x1.0 1d8 = x1.5 1d10+ = x2 Your damage is calculated by multiplying the...

I'd suggest that stirges are best used as combination monsters, ideally with something that would logically get along with the stirges. Take something that isn't ordinarily a killer, but that IS a big damage-disher. Say, a medium or large earth elemental (which has no blood and doesn't eat, and...

My wife's a player in one game I run. My DM's wife is a player in his game. I've never noticed or had any problems, except possibly that my wife knows all my tells and will say, "So, guys, you think there's any chance that this person is totally a spy for the bad guys planning to betray us? I'm...

There's a difference between expecting someone to never get their feelings hurt and expecting someone to act responsibly while dealing with matters in a professional capacity, even if their feelings are hurt. A big difference.

QFT. The right writing group can also work wonders (if you don't want to send it out sans edits entirely). The WRONG writing group will nitpick every detail and tell you how derivative you are and how you ought to be challenging yourself more. The RIGHT reading group will tell you the parts...

Ditto. I wouldn't mind playing a game with no charisma and no social skills, but that would pretty much kill any chance of my shy players playing fast-talking persuaders in exactly the same way that "swing this sword to see how well your character swings HIS sword" kills any chance of the...

I'd buy it. :)

I like about a third of the time spent in a dungeon-type area: 30% - Dungeons and monster-whacking 30% - Conversation, intrigue, investigation 30% - Special non-dungeon combat 10% - Loooooooooot!

To sum it up with a vast oversimplification that will likely draw ire from both sides: I'd say that gameplay in True20 is easier because it's more well-rounded, while the C&C gameplay is straightforward but can seem arbitrary, with so much left to GM fiat. From the player perspective, what you...