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If 4e is anything like Saga edition, it will be easier to rewrite the character than it would be to convert the character. That said, I'm probably not going to bother.

I honestly thought Bill Slaviczek had moved on to another company doing Star Wars related things... my mistake.

Okay, you don't care about salvaging/looting anything from the fortress, but you do need to eliminate it as a resource. Earth Elementals and Water Elementals. Put the Earth Elementals to work deep beneath the Fortress, in the bedrock the Fortress sits on. Have them riddle that area with cracks...

That's an Amazon.com placeholder cover; you'll note that Bill Slaviscek and JD Wiker are listed, neither of whom have worked on Saga Edition or, as far as I know, are even employed as freelancers by WotC anymore.

It strikes me that Teenagers From Outer Space could be easily adapted to a 'cartoon' RPG. There is another 'cartoon' RPG out there, claiming to be able to simulate everything in any 1980's cartoon series, but I don't remember the name and I wasn't impressed with it at all.

I think what happened is that, thanks to the efforts of a few specific writers and (more importantly) editors, Fantasy novels grew up out of the disreputable realms of pulp fiction into a 'respectable' genre. Up and coming writers were encouraged to write well, thanks to people like Marion...

Sets: These have been around for a long time in D&D, but unlike Diablo, these "sets" were always of artifacts and near-artifacts, not items that you just find lying around any random dungeon. Crown, Orb, and Scepter of Power, each set dedicated to Good, Evil, or Neutrality, meant to be the...

While it's true that True Sorcery doesn't have the Backgrounds or the Academician character class, in True Sorcery a lot of the base DCs of Talents were lowered from the Black Company versions.

Now Goblin: +15 skill ranks, +4 Int bonus (Magician's Apprentice, +5 Cha bonus, +3 Skill Focus (Magic Use), +2 Synergy Bonus (Knowledge:arcana), +8 Insight Bonus (Magnitude) = +39... he's listed as having +37. One-Eye: +20 skill ranks, +2 Cha bonus, +2 synergy (Know:arcane), +8 Insight...

That's not necessarily true.. The BCBS has a *ton* of synergy bonus interactions, all of which do stack, IIRC. There is at least one skill and one background that give a bonus to Magic Use, and there's the Skill Focus: Magic Use feat too. As an example, take Arkana: +15 skill ranks +4 Int bonus...

For me, the biggest thing mission from their 2007 catalog is the one product I know is in production, the one product I know I'm going to buy... Star Wars Roleplaying Game, Saga Edition. It's scheduled for release in May, but there's no sign of it in their catalogs either in print or online.

Blue Thunder and Airwolf were both helicopters. Blue Thunder was a movie, while Airwolf was a TV series. The premise of Airwolf was that this was a helicoptor that could somehow go supersonic...

Even in the Black Company rules, the insight bonus for Magnitude does not stack. A Second Magnitude wizard has an Insight bonus to Magic Use of +8. A Third Magnitude wizard has an Insight bonus to Magic Use of +16 (not +14, that was a typo). If you're seeing anything else, you're looking at an...

Oh, dear god, the list is endless... Blue Seed 9, Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis 2050 (i.e., the new one, not the original), Read or Die... it's like the producers run out of money and hastily wrap up the series by doing this nihilistic "let's all go to nirvana together" crap, with the heroes...

Anime is a style of film animation, not a genre in and of itself. Within that style there are dozens of genres, everything from serious science fiction to nonsensical comedies to, well, to extremely violent pornography. That said, I've never used anything anime in any of my games... yet...

Yes indeed. There's an argument to be made that, without the possibility either of heaven or of reincarnation, the idea of becoming undead is a rational one.

A 1st edition campaign I was in drew heavily on "native American" and Meso-American mythology, and not just the stuff found in the 1st edition Deities and Demigods, either. Mictlantecuhtli turned out to be a lich on the verge of, well, of demigodhood. The "Collector of Eyes" was a...

The theory a friend of mine, and the DM for a 1st edition campaign I was in, came up with made a great deal of sense. The reason, he said, that Athas is isolated from the Outer Planes is because the plane is sitting in the eye of a permanent psychic wind, an astral hurricane as it were. The...

Don't forget the elements of World Wrestling Federation... the braggadocio, the outrageous statements, the feuds between teams...

A sentient dungeon would probably have a few low-level effects, like lighting the torches automatically, opening and closing doors when something approaches, that kind of thing. A sapient dungeon would be much more dangerous, being able to close doors to isolate the party and then herd monsters...