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Very interesting game. I'm really enjoying the game recaps. I loved the idea of the "Fate be with you" card with an open ended effect. I will have to use that one in my games. It looks like everyone is really enjoying themselves and getting into it deeply. Congrats! Very well done.

Let's put is this way. I have never in 30+ years of games, and with at least 9 paladin characters in my games, had one of them not play the paladin as an honorable, just and compassionate warrior dedicated to their cause in some way. What I have never had to do is spend "mental overhead"...

Wait a minute... Those "mechanical" options were proposed by n'raac who, if we are picking teams, is on the "pro-alignment" camp. Are you saying he is a bad DM? I don't particularly have an opinion either way as I have not seen one example of his game, to date. But I'm in no way "confusing...

Entering a debate after 90+ pages, doesn't mean that I have not read what each side has said. I have read almost every post and I'm well aware of the argument(s). It simply means that I have more important things to do with my time than spend the equivalent of writing "War and Peace" on, yet...

Yep, because it is interpreted there are going to be an infinite number of variations. As a player, I don't want to deal with that scenario. As a DM, I don't want to have to deal with that scenario. That is why I don't use mechanical alignment. The facetious example I used above could have...

I hope there's a lot of flaws too. I'll finally save some money... Oh, slot.... Nevermind.

I'm the player. I have come up with my character concept, which I'm keen on playing. I'm a paladin of justice, I punish wrong doers. I have dedicated my life to honing my senses to the pursuit of justice. I will call my character Murcielago. DM: Ok, you have finally tracked Ra's al ghul...

This is the type of "rules lawyering" that I would normally expect from someone that is not familiar with the basic structures of the game. I could see a new DM, unfamiliar with "guidelines not rules", might make a ruling like that. A player that feels slighted or is afraid of the...

4e was not even mentioned one time in what I said. You used a quote that explains rather clearly what pemerton has been saying, and in the same breath you argued that gods in 4e don't even have the capability to strip paladins of their class features. This is the same "attitude" I encountered...

LOL. Maybe you should have read what you quoted a bit further. How justly, honorably, or compassionately the paladin wields those powers from that day forward is up to him... Isn't that exactly what pemerton has been saying all along? He let's the player of the paladin define how the...

I'm totally with you on this one. Following this same strict adherence to nitnoid methodology when adjudicating alignment is why many consider the alignment mechanics a straitjacket. Another strong reason why I'm not interested in mechanical alignment for my games. If we took the play...

I wonder if this was also one of the lines for Belushi's "Was it over?" monologue on the script for Animal House, but it was dropped for being too controversial... LOL

A good friend of mine, Frylock, wrote an article in which he developed a system for dealing directly with these issues. We playtested the system with the entire Against the Giants adventure series. I think the site with the original article went kaput but, from the link above, check the link...

Under most circumstances I'm the DM for most of my game groups (3). I avoid using a published setting as my main game world as I don't like "someone else" dictating changes to the world that I don't want to spend time explaining to new players. That does not mean that I don't liberally use...

I think it's way too early for me to gauge the options for the game and their "perceived imbalance" by just looking at the early playtest materials. The game is not even published. So I'll wait and see.

Are you talking about the D&D Movies, or movies produced in partnership with Hasbro? The Transformers franchise has made a ton of money, and is sure to make some more this summer.

And make money, which is really all this boils down to in the end.

Well I guess the map would be how the city looks like post-spellplague. It's been a very long time since I've looked at it.

But that is a really far 2 miles.:)

Monument of the Ancients The James Brothers (Brian R. and Matt James, not Frank and Jesse) wrote Monument of the Ancients, a D&D 4th Edition adventure located in the area around Phlan. With a DDI subscription you can get it from Dungeon 170. Though not a conversion of Ruins of Adventure...