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With 4e, Wizards will finally have achieved the real dream of adventuring gaming geeks everywhere. The Roll-1d4-For-Which-Edition-You're-Using-This-Week System!! It will be abbreviated to R1FWEYU (TM pending). Before each game, you'll roll 1d4, and use the rules from that edition of D&D...

I'm just a fiddly kind of person. I guess my boredom threshhold is lower than most. I spin dice, stack dice, twirl pens. Mostly, I try to paint miniatures during slow spots in the game to keep myself occupied. I recognize that in any group RPG, individuals will not always have something to...

Hi Skalekan, It's a very good idea to use some sort of card for, at the least, important magic items. When I was first introduced to AD&D in 1980, that's exactly how the local players kept track of things. Since "open gaming" was the style of the day, it was important to prove that your...

Frankly, I would rather have a 2-page preview of Final Fantasy XII than another 2 pages of feats, spells, core classes, or other crunch. The main reason I stopped buying Dragon was that it was overwhelmingly crunchy bits -- and Wizards already puts out hundreds upon hundreds of pages of crunch...

In my case, it's not an obsession with organizations. I disagree that PrCs should be used to create specialist characters at all. Where PrCs are used to give characters bonuses instead of flavor, they become as bad as 2e kits. Tying PrCs to organizations forces you to consider the campaign...

Gotta be illusionist.

Chloe O'Brien performs feats of magic every episode, though.

The Bay Area has seen a number of game store closures this year. Scenario Games closed its doors over the summer. So did GameScape Palo Alto. San Antonio Hobbies up the peninsula is about to close. D&J Hobbies has gutted its game section. It's a shadow of its former self, and frankly not...