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This is the greatest thread ever. Make them into cocktail napkins during any and all dining occasions you host at your place. That way when you get 'inspired' with a dungeon idea you have the appropriate cocktail napkin to jot it down on.

Everyone's already made some strong points (manpower required for support, strain on user resources) However, I think the videos didn't necessarily present a 'close to complete' piece of software. Tech demos are completely different things from fully working software, as any one with experience...

I don't see Essentials as something distinct from 4th Edition, since as far as I as a DM am concerned, it just means my players have the option of using different classes. Oh sure, they're introducing concepts like magic item rarity, random treasure parcels, various changes to basic DCs and new...

I'll admit it, I'm a mechanical gamer. I love calibrating encounter configurations, tweaking character damage output and developing a synergistic relationship between class abilities, whether it's Star Wars SAGA or D&D 4th Edition. And I still like playing videogames -- I pummeled away at...

It got your HotF*king Kingdoms right here. And no, Katy Perry did not sleep there.

I'm not exactly new to Star Wars SAGA Edition, having played a Duros Scoundrel for 18 levels through about a year's worth of play, but I've only recently developed an interest in running it -- so I can add another game to my DMing repertoire -- and I just wanted to know to what extent Wizards...

I light a torch and throw it into the darkness. Then I unsheathe my sword, which smells of baked bread anytime danger is near.

It looks dark in there. There is likely to be a grue.

Consider your ideas stolen.

Our girls are scary. One of them, the spouse of our Shadowrun GM, is really freaky about the kind of tactical savvy she employs as an invoker. She doesn't build her own characters, but she most definitely knows how to play them. The other is a total striker nut (user nai_cha) and she's played...

That's what I thought I was referring to. Insofar as a fiction-world's inhabitants can apply the scientific method to arcane magic -- that it can be observed, tested, analyzed and then replicated (falsifiability) -- then it is a science, even if it doesn't apply the known laws of our world.

I've noticed that the problem that most people (not myself) have with the idea that arcane magic is science is the fact that it's tangible representation within a fictional world, doesn't actually resemble anything scientific/empirical we know of. And that's regardless of whether or not you...

Well put. The way I see it is that the simulationist trajectory that D&D took for most of its existence was a result of Gygax trying to make his own (totally appropriate and completely necessary) houserules and codify them into text, simply because he felt that if he faced certain problems...

That's even better. It overcomes the limitations of the MacGuffin while ensuring there is a reason why it is sought after in the first place. Perhaps one of the NPCs written in is a rival of hers.

By the power of the DM Handwave, that's totally legitimate. But I guess that while I consider myself a flexible GM, I'm more likely to lean towards the intent of the adventure writer, which specifically states that no one could create a new slaying stone out of it. (Which fluff-wise makes no...

Okay, so I've been pretty open about how much I like HS1 The Slaying Stone. It's got some great writing and editing, insofar as helping the DM keep track of events that the players don't see and provides a lot of material to deal with the unpredictable nature of players. And unlike the H series...

I like it when you can get rules lawyers to work for you, but if they become antagonistic due to their insistence that the existence of a rule in a complex system abnegates your ability to hand-wave, then I simply get all smart-ass on them in the way one would smart-ass canon lawyers. "That's...

All I could think of was: Passenger: "So, what do you do?" Driver: "I CHARGE!" Don't D&D and drive.

I'm fortunate in that we have lots of women in our gaming circles, and therefore if we get them, we are able to get the boyfriend too, or vice versa. That said, I'm also lucky that this same group forms the core of a committee that organizes gaming events, so we're all pretty passionate...

I think there's a good chance that you can toggle the flavor text off, since the current Character Builder does it. Also, the idea of a high-res/economy setting is a great one, though I doubt I'd ever use the high-res one seeing as I'm a stingy bastard when it comes to printer ink. I'm glad...