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I'm a guy, and I don't like it. You need to reevaluate your "obviously". It is entirely possible to be offended by sexist objectification without being prudish. Your conflation of the two speaks volumes. (And P-Kitty: Agree on the daily strip. Gah.)

Quoted for massive disagreement. You want to know why some women don't read comics? You want to know why some women have these crazy ideas about comics being sexist and stupid? I know, she's not Batgirl. She's not supposed to be competent or deadly or dangerous. But washing the costume while...

I like having the d20 games in their own forum. If I post a question about M&M or Grim Tales, and it goes into the General Forum, there's a good chance that it gets knocked off the front page in less than a day -- and once that happens, the chance of anyone responding is much lower. If I post...

In one of my novels, I had a character based on Hugo's character. Her name was Eponyme, and she pined away for one of the heroes for most of the book. (And when she wasn't pining, she was naming things after herself.)

Comments about strangling coworkers aside, I'm not really talking about anything that isn't public knowledge. Anyone who hits the website can watch videos of the gameplay and read official stuff about classes and races, and while some of that stuff isn't final, it gives a fairly clear indication...

Halo's combat interface (in my opinion) does exactly what a good interface should do: it lets you forget that there's an interface. I was thinking about this during a blog post, actually -- a good combat interface makes for a good game for two reasons: first, a good interface is more fun to...

I'd actually recommend Ultimate Power as the first supplement. At least on Atomic Think Take, it's referred to more often than the Core Rulebook when questions arise regarding how powers work. I picked up both Ultimate Power and the Masterminds Manual. I like them both, but I don't really need...

It's pretty much the only reason I've got an XBox 360. I want to be able to play the first game that has my name in the credits. :) I started at BioWare a couple of years ago as a designer. I've mostly been working on an unannounced project, but I did some work on Dragon Age, and I came over to...

Got me. 10+Str+1/2HD, as a Strength-based save-causing effect? (FWIW, I'd do the same thing with Whirlwind Attack and Flurry of Blows and other abilities that normally give the PCs extra attacks -- turn 'em into area-effects with a save for half.) Bear in mind that that's off the top of my...

The main thing to do is buy games with decent interfaces. Something like "Lost Planet", which has many awesome ideas, is too big a pain to actually be worth playing because the interface is so clunky. Other games have decent controls but horrific camera positioning (or map layout) that makes it...

With large creatures like dragons, I'd be tempted to say that its breath weapon is one combat option, and its other option is an area of effect damage effect that allows a Reflex save for half damage. (This would work best in a system in which armor provides DR, so that armored people aren't...

The thing about fey that I love is the fact that they're so tied into folklore and mythology. They're not just happy little pixies -- they're the things that went bump in the night way back when, the things that people called the Fair Folk with nervous smiles on their faces, because they didn't...

Good luck! If you run into issues (and there are several to run into -- a lot of room for interpretations and some different philosophies to get your mind wrapped around), this site is obviously very good, and the Atomic Think Tank is a wonderful source of information.

Definitely during character creation (if you're starting a campaign, the first session should be "getting characters sussed out", and that's assuming that you did some homework with each player before the session, too, to get a groundwork), but also during play. Things like Hero Point...

I think it's a great system. I also think that whether it's the right system for you and your group depends on a few things: - GM Presence: M&M is a very breakable game if the players want to abuse things and the GM isn't strong enough to say, "Sorry, not in this game." While few GMs would...

Isn't the Paragon epic template in the SRD? That was what I was thinking. You know, the one that gets the +13 or whatever to all of its rolls? And yeah, I'm sure that any of my players who read that were just glad that there were SOME things I didn't throw at them. (Half-Fiend HD-Advanced...

"The Highwayman", by Alfred Noyes. Loreena McKennitt does a really good version of it on one of her CDs. Sorry, on my blog, that poem is full of links, but I didn't copy the links over -- since most of you know already know what admantine is. :)

So, there seems to be a lot of anger going on right now. In the spirit of defusing anger and getting everyone back to their core values of gaming and mocking poetry, I'm cross-posting a bit from my blog: The Munchkin (with apologies to Noyes; best experienced while listening to Loreena...

My LGS is very friendly, and I've had no problems in dealing with them. Honestly, my big problem is that they don't have what I want. Slavelords of Cydonia? No. Ultimate Power? No. Masterminds Manual? No. Expanded Psionics Handbook? No. I ended up getting most of what I needed from Amazon, and...

Let 'em. If it's good, I'll buy it. If it doesn't wow me, I've got Grim Tales and Mutants & Masterminds. Those two systems might not be for everyone, but they both hit my happy notes. Between the two of 'em, I've got the tools to run any game I could ever want.