Search results

From what I get from SWSE, being grabbed is a minor inconvenience that does no damage, so the 'grabber' and his allies better have a good follow up planned. BUT if you take feats to get better at it, you are pinning people and crushing them in all your Wookie glory. This seems fine to me...

So I'm planning on dropping the chase rules from Adamant's 'Hot Pursuit' into an upcoming Saga game, and it looks like a pretty straightforward port. Some of the DC's may be a touch easier for the players to reach, as I believe trained skill 'ranks' in Saga would be higher on average than a D20...

I've been curious about C&C for a while- I'm in for ghul's morning game, if there's a spot open! --Z

No prying assumed- my message lacked one of these: :p And naming, yes- one interesting thing about that process is finding out how many people my wife or I know that the other doesn't- so I say 'how about Dakota?' and she says, 'I knew a Dakota, and don't want the association,' and this goes...

Bumping yon oaf. --Z

I wanted to know as soon as possible. I was having a hard time relating to a 'baby', but found it much easier to imagine (and try to mentally prepare for) the arrival of a little person once I knew the gender. My wife didn't have a preference for knowing, and that may be that she is the oldest...

maransreth with twins for the win! When our kids are teenagers maybe they can get together to play 6E! --Z

Sort of- I work part time, and hope to continue to do so while my wife is on leave. Then I'll take my two weeks when she goes back so I'll get quality time with the tiny new person. Then we'll see what happens. It's almost impossible to plan for the other side of this paradigm! Many of our...

Thanks, all! I've pre-ordered all 3 core rulebooks, and putting those Amazon boxes aside unopened for a while will be just one more surreal occurrence of this summer, I have no doubt. --Z

Anyone else expecting their first child the same week 4e ships? Will I be the only one trying to sneak a 4e PH into the bag we'll be packing for the run to the hospital? :) And is there enough times between helping me wife with the feedings and diaper changes to build a few characters to...

know who would make a great Futurama PC? Al Gore. He's a 12th level vice-president. There's also the Simpsons to draw from: Kang, or his sister, Kodos. --Z

The Swindler, I'm guessing? --Z

I've never been to a gameday - sounds like a good time! I'll put in for a player slot on the D20 future afternoon game. Maybe I'll stat out the Stainless Steel Rat. --Z

Reading through the thread has helped me realize how i use alignment in the games I play or DM. Mostly, I use alignment as a first step in determining a PC or NPC's world view. Even when I use NPC generators, I enjoy getting the random alignment because it's the strongest indicator as to how...

Didn't players always have the option of saying they would be evil from the start? They would often be kicked off of the team, however, because the definitions of the evil alignments made it tough to trust an evil pc. There were exceptions, however. So how will that work in 4e? Through the...

I've read both preview books and I'm looking forward to the new edition of the game, but I'm concerned how the absence of alignment will change things. Determining evil by a persons actions seems out of place in a setting where evil can be seen as absolute. Sort of 'you are what you have done...

With the emphasis on cinematic action, we can look towards films such as 'Kill Bill' for unsurprisingly fitting examples of some classic and 4e D&D concepts. The Bride kills the Crazy 88, and through luck, skill and pure grit avoids suffering a lethal blow. After the encounter she triggers her...

Another vote for Libre Mortis. So good! Here's a few unusual books I enjoyed: Hot Pursuit: The D20 Guide to Chases. I put 3 chases in my last campaign, two were tremendous fun and one didn't happen because the PC's refused to break off combat. But now whenever I'm playing in someone else's...

Libre Mortis has some great variant zombies in the back of the book. Some cam move and attack in a round, some carry disease, some have a bite attack, and so on. Also Corpsecrafter feats allow the folks who make zombies to deadly them up a little. --Z

The Weymouth store had 1, non-shrink-wrapped BoVD when i was there last weekend. I put it in a pile with a bunch of other titles I was lugging around before I remembered that 4E and my first child will arrive with a few days of each other. So I'm saving my money for those things. Still, there...