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Oh, that it were that easy. I'm not saying it isn't, but I don't think we know whether it is or isn't or... what. The reason that I suspect that it might not be as easy as you describe is that I made the... enlightening... decision to ask a longtime veteran at BioWare who actually had the...

Thanks, everybody. :) Having just made an emergency run to pick up more diapers, I believe we're settling in just fine. Hyp: Sweet Christmas, man! She's going to kill me! (Also, I need a hotel room and as many d20s as you can find...) Huw: Gah! I'm hoping it was a slow, puttering-along labor...

The Dude (the Lil' Bud's older brother) got his first set of dice from my gaming group a few days after being born. For the Little Bud, I figure we'll just get him a really nice d20, since I figure he'll be into True20 and M&M. :) Hype, you're gonna make my wife kill me...

Nitpick: NWN2 was done by Obsidian, not BioWare. All praise and scorn goes to the folks in California, not we happy few in Alberta.

Thanks, guys. :) Olaf, are you doing a home birth as well? I have no idea how common that is in Australia. Regardless, good luck, and remember to project calm reassurance, even if you're lying through your teeth as you do it! :)

My wife gave birth to our second son on Thursday morning. :) Pictures (first set is the birth, second set is an older set of my older son, Garrett): http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=tbz6v4a.bib60zuu&x=0&y=-g33ty1 And the story, for those interested. It's long, and I'm only writing it once...

Something like PL6 Mutants & Masterminds would also be faster than d20 Modern, although you'd have to ride herd on the players pretty closely to make sure that you were getting the right feel for your game -- "street-level" superheroes like Daredevil and Batman instead of "Green Lantern, but...

I read the first two books of the three-book omnibus, and didn't bother with the third. There's much good, but the style just clunked in a lot of places for me (as others have noted). If you like the ideas more than you dislike the writing or the deus ex machinas, then you'll enjoy it, I think...

Honestly, I don't see any need for classes beyond Tough. Like, a lot of it. He doesn't win in hand-to-hand because he's a martial arts ninja. He wins because you hit him, and you hit him, and you hit him, and then you get tired, and then he hits you, and you go down. A Tough hero with decent...

If (when) I get the True20 corebook, it'll be for two reasons: 1) I like having paper copies of books for easier reference during games. 2) I want to support the folks at Green Ronin. I don't want their Free RPG day to mean that they effectively lose sales. Heck, that's kind of why I bought...

I hope it ends up being worth it. I'll be showing the M&M Beginner's Guide to some friends in an attempt to get them to pick up the M&M corebook, and I'll likely be picking up True20 after liking what I saw in the PDF!

Magic is really an array, not a power per se. (This is made more clear in Ultimate Power, but it's true in the corebook, too.) Just build powers like you normally do. Maybe something like Sorcerous Blast is your main power. It's a blast at 2 pp/rank, or 20 points for Blast 10. Then you want...

My FLGS isn't doing anything, but they did apologize -- they wanted to do it, but couldn't, since they were in Canada (and aren't making enough to offer free stuff on their own). So, Green Ronin for me. :) Any other companies offering anything online?

Picked up the beginner's guide (for my M&M players) and True20 -- I've been interested in taking a look. It looks good so far, and I can easily see myself picking up the paper version. Very cool on Green Ronin's part.

View from the ground: The problem with doing Baldur's Gate DS is that BioWare doesn't own the rights to the franchise -- Interplay owns some of it, and TSR owned other parts, and... it's murky. If you mean "something like Baldur's Gate, but in a new world", then my guess (and this is just a...

I talk at local conventions about game design. Because I'm a BioWare person, that gives me a certain level of street cred, and when I ran a D&D game, it was referred to as "Celebrity D&D with Patrick Weekes". It didn't bug me, because, while people were very polite and occasionally threw me off...

:) The guys I've talked to on the team (some acquaintences, and one guy that I have lunch with regularly) are jazzed. They are really excited at the prospect of combining BioWare RPG stuff with the fun parts of Sonic exploration. Just don't ask them about romances.

Right, because changing from Vancian magic to something that's easier to explain and write in novel format pretty much torpedoes the narrative continuity. Glad we're on the same page.

Or, equally plausibly, that he played a relatively normal D&D game and then changed the way magic worked in the books because he didn't want to write about Vancian magic. If I write a novel based on my normal-3rd-Edition campaign, it's sure as heck going to have some changes to the way that...

Depending on the time you're willing to put into it, I see Grim Tales as pretty easily handling a Midkemia d20 game. Tweak the magic a little by putting limits on who can take what spells, and you're largely good to go. That said, everyone complaining that D&D magic is completely unsuitable for...