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More than once, and legitimately. Starting up a new group for a long running sandbox 1st ed game, the guy making the ranger rolled an 18 for Str, then dropped the first d10 of the percintile pair and got a "0". Everyone snickered and laughed, until the second die dropped also hit "0".... He...

So, have you had $10+ worth of hassle and agrivation yet?

As a DM, the ability to add class levels, templates, or additional hit dice (or all three) to any stock monster makes it a no brainer. Add to that the fact that HL has official Pathfinder support for all of the APs AND Organized Play and it's hands down the best. d20 Pro exporting is just icing...

There was a massive difference between 2nd and 3rd editions, with the latter going with a universal task resolution chart (like Marvel Super Heroes). I'd say 4th ed was the best, if not 2nd ed (but that may just be nostaldia). 4th ed is missing skills and is very much a beta version of 3rd ed...

Probably not the answer you were looking for, but you might want to give Dark Conspiracy a try, especially for the decline of civilization rather than the aftermath.

I didn't read the entire thread, but I'll throw in my two-cents worth anyway. Why do superheroes wear costumes? The same reason why KISS wore make-up and Elvis wore a jumpsuit. (In some settings, it's rationalized by a legal modification of the Good Samaratan laws, whereby a hero can act as a...

If you didn't mention him, I was going to. I blamed Mr Gygax for that and let it stand in-game. "Let me get this straight: the innkeeper's name is Dick.... Wrench?" Don't forget his barman, Wat. "who's on first?" "I dunno, but Wat's pouring the drinks."

I wonder what brought on the change? It seemed very sudden. Josh was there at Gen Con, and took time off for shoulder surgery. He hasn't been back for long at all.

I ran several GW games (2nd and 4th eds) and never were they "wahoo" or silly. The goofier mutants threats never made an appearance, but the nastier ones did. It was very much a "death lurks around every corner" type of game (especially when your treasure could kill you). As for Savage Worlds...

Twowolves Howling was the name of my barbarian shaman in Everquest back in 1998. He was a founding member of the original guild The Bears of Oboo, and would announce his presence in a zone to all by /shouting "HooOOOooowwLL!!", to which the other guildmates (and many allies) would reply /shout...

If I go in on game day and order a beer, it doesn't cost me any more than it does on Tuesday night. I'm sure they charge enough money in drinks and food to cover their costs, but I can sit and watch a game nonetheless, even if I order a glass of water.

Like I said, just analogies you don't agree with. If every single detail of the two things being compared were identical, they wouldn't be analogies, now would they? How about this, for a comparison (which is not, you know, an analogy): Gameday GM at a FLGS: "Come in and try out a demo of the...

You mean like how sports bars charge their customers extra to watch football games that are on expanded cable/satelite packages? oh wait, most don't.

Who said anything about new core classes? Splatbooks had feats and PrCs and they most definately got progressively more powerful as the 3.5 era went on. They constituted the "arms race" to which I am referring. And you are presuming the opposite. No one in the marketplace has seen them yet...

I don't use terrible analogies, just ones that others don't agree with. But just for you, here's another one: when my satelite/cable provider wants me to subscribe to HBO, they give me a free weekend of HBO, they do NOT give me access to HBO then bill me for it, not even $6.

Politicians want my vote too, but they don't have the audacity to charge me for the fliers I get in the mail.

Bingo! We have a winner. Traditionally, TSR/WotC have used other, non-D&D lines to test the waters for mechanical changes to future D&D edition changes. They used GW 4th ed and Star Wars Saga Edition, just off the top of my head. If this model works even marginally, you'd better believe 5th ed...

Did those trading cards have ANY tagible, in-game impact or were they just pretty to look at?

I could be mistaken, but I thought there was such a beast in one version. It includes "A Canticle for Leibowitz" and "Alas, Babylon" and "Vulcan's Hammer", (and I want to say Vance's "Dying Earth" was in there too), all of which have themes recognizible by GW fans, none (that I'm aware of) are...

I ran GW 2nd ed back in the day, and had copies of every "Ares" article concerning the game. I also ran 4th ed a good bit as well. I own all the other editions (GW1, GW2, GW3, GW4, GW-Alternity, and GW d20) as well as the re-release of Metamorphosis Alpha from a few years ago. We never played...