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And on a completely unrelated note... I have an extra copy of Big Eyes Small Mouth D20, the anime role-playing game. Anyone want this copy? I bought one (the one I am giving away), won one (the unrevised, revised edition) and got a review copy (the full-color Deluxe Limited Edition.) No strings...

I just printed my PDF too. Figured I might as well catch up on all the buzz, y'know? My initial thought is that it looks to be even MORE tactical than regular D&D. So, it probably isn't the game system for Grimhelm's needs. Someone should take a look at Game of Thrones D20. OG has my extra...

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Yeah, this has become an increasingly common use for the word franchise. I think it is meant to convey that the property Hellboy has been franchised for use in movies, comics, games, statues, action figures, etc., etc. The original owner still owns the name, image and idea, but licenses it out...

Ron Perlman, star of the Hellboy franchise, Marg Helgenberger of CSI, and James Marsden (Cyclops in the X-Men films) will voice the major roles in the first feature-length animated Conan film, Conan: Red Nails. http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/7686.html

If you were looking for the RPG, the pocket Conan guide is available on Amazon for $12 or $13 right now. The full-size book is around $28 used, or about half off. Of course there is no way to tell whether that is the revised "Atlantean" edition or not. John's motto -- never pay full price for a...

Well, I hope I didn't write anything that came across as accusing anyone of being contrary or difficult. I certainly never meant to convey that. For my part, I have viewed this as just batting around some ideas on role-playing theory. In the long run, you're going to run Arenaia the way you...

But even without using the skills as they are meant to be used (i.e. with a D20 roll,) a GM could still take the players' relative ranks in skills into account when deciding how succesful the character is at an action. For example, someone talking to the prince who had a +15 Diplomacy bonus...

Reading through Iron Heroes today, it had what I thought was a really good idea for skills like Diplomacy. If you choose to actually say in-character what your character says you get a +2 to a Diplomacy roll. If you both act in character and come up with valid points that would convince the NPC...

I don't know if everybody has seen the former TV series "Firefly" or the movie based on it "Serenity" but there is a character in it called Jayne (who is a guy, btw.) Jayne is nominally a good guy in that he is a member of the ship's crew, but his answer to anything is generally "kill it." For...

First, I would love to have you playing in Arenaia. I can think of nothing better for this gaming group than to have everybody together again, even if it is irregularly. I have never played with you and Grimhelm together before but it sound like those games used to be an awful lot of fun. You...

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here IM. Do you mean that you only like to play in this style of play? Or that you only like to play characters whose personality is like this? Or that a barbarian would be like this if you played him? I mean, we get into fights in Arenaia, sure...

I am really up for whatever on the 30th.

I realize I am coming off as schizophrenic here, since I am one of the big proponents of "just use another system" so I just wanted to clarify. I think the changes to the basic D&D rules that Grimhelm has implemented have worked well in Arenaia. They haven't really involved any major changes to...

I don't really know why it hasn't occurred to me before, but Game of Thrones is another D20 fantasy system that might prove sufficient for everyone's needs. Although it has some ties to its own game world (based on George R.R. Martin's novels) that is a world of low-to-no magic. There is a...

Here is my situation. My schedule changes next week and I will be working a 2 to midnight shift every day, M-F. My Monday night game will have to move to Sunday, starting last weekend, with the next game to be held on Oct. 23. I am planning to alternate that with the normal group Sunday game of...

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I don't really know yet. I am going up as part of a new "day trip" feature we are doing in the paper. So I think I am getting two free tickets. I hope to get up there by 9 a.m., because the LOTR fan club is doing a "funeral" for Boromir before the normal opening hours. Thought that sounded...

Meant to comment on this earlier. Hoody frickin' hoo!

I'm not going to say I am exactly the opposite, but I am much more interested in unravelling mysteries and outthinking the bad guys, than in combat. My idea of a perfect game is figuring out a way to overcome all the obstacles with a minimum of risk and a maximum of finesse. Turning two sides...