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  1. thormagni

    New Game - Characters

    No forged weapons? No knives? Metal arrowheads? (that was what I was planning on.)
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    New Game - Characters

    Maybe it is a popular name, locally. We used to have four John's in my office and five Andrews... And Chris' character's name wasn't supposed to be Malik, but just the blacksmith tellin' the yarn... I don't think Chris ever mentioned her name. I could see her and Thicket working together. I...
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    For example, instead of applying all the classes and such to make a human opponent, Human is actually a monster again. A bunch of normal humans are a Level 2 Minion monster encounter. A human mage would be a Level 4 Artillery encounter.
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    Well, 4th edition takes the philosophy that if the players aren't going to see it, why bother to write it down? Do you really need to figure out the exact benefits of a certain level fighter applied to a monster, or will just tossing in the appropriate feats and powers do what you need. Who...
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    True 20 from Green Ronin has really impressed me. I played in one game last year at Gen Con and ran one two weeks ago and really liked the flexibility in character design.
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    I completely agree. That is EXACTLY the way I feel. I am totally "bleh" on 4th edition and have NO character ideas that pop to mind for me. The complete focus on combat roles just makes me scratch my head. There has always been a dichotomy between what a pen-and-paper game meant by a...
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    I know that feeling for sure.
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    I'm not really familiar with LimeWire. My impression was that it worked like Kazaa/Grokster, in that there is a central Web site shuttling the information back and forth. Torrents are more decentralized. You use a Web site to find out what Torrents are flying around the Net and download the...
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    And I also realize the irony of buying 2/3 of the available D&D 4th edition books and then saying that I don't plan to support them. Since it looks an awful lot like I am actually supporting them. But I can't imagine buying the 4th edition equivalent of the shelf-full of books that I have for 3.5.
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    I really see the Wizards/4th edition/D20 situation much like the personal computer industry of 15-20 years ago. They don't want to become IBM in the PC market - watching other people profit and take over a market that they actually created, nurtured and designed.
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    Assuming this isn't a rhetorical question: a "torrent" is a small text file that when used in conjunction with a BitTorrent program allows users to download files across the 'Net. So, Bob would be suggesting that someone has made PDF files of the books available on the Web for download. I...
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    Well, I Went Ahead and Did It

    My understanding is that it is even more restrictive than that. While you can reference the terms in your work, you can't actually pull the rules from your book. So while you could list your monster's stats, you couldn't explain what any of those stats MEAN under the new GSL. They specifically...
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    New Game

    A friend and co-worker (or a friendly coworker) would like to play in this game, I think. I'm not sure he has ever played D20 though.
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    New Game - Characters

    Thicket is the son of an area woodsman. His mother died when he was a young child and for most of his life he has been left to his own devices while his father is off working at logging camps. A small, furtive man-child in his mid to late teens, he skulks around the outside edges of the town...
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    James Bond

    Or if you have remarkably poor impulse control <=== That's me! Seriously, a lack of cash and space is really putting a crimp in my crazy game buying sprees. I have a few game books I'd like to pick up that are coming out at GenCon, but we'll see how that goes. None of them are close to a...
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    James Bond

    I've been a big fan of espionage RPGs since TSR's original "Top Secret," but it is really hard to find a group that is interested. It is kind of a little splinter of a splinter of RPG enthusiasts. The only one I ever really got off the ground was a "Top Secret: SI" game back when I was in the...
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    James Bond

    Or to "Packrat" or "Compulsive RPG buyer" Both are equally accurate.
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    James Bond

    Yeah, we tend to use the forum for a sort of community site for our little group, talking about games, books and other interests. As far as the James Bond RPG, it had a point-buy character creation system, where you started as either a newbie, a mid-level agent or as a 00. I remember it used...
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    1st Ed D&D

    That's me. I'm surprised anybody would remember that. It's been a long time since I've done any game writing. (although I am working on a new game roundup for GenCon next month to run in Zone.) I just don't get much time to write anymore.
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    1st Ed D&D

    He probably would. I think it would depend on the subject matter, the tone of the game and what day of the week we play.
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