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Classy. Good on you, Whizbros.

The Wilderlands. And every homebrew I ever ran.

Same here.

I think this goes back to some degree to the notion of transparency, of the rules and the adjudication. While I tend to swim in the rulings-not-rules end of the pool, in my experience the games that facilitate that approach offer relatively concise, clear rules from which the referee can...

Getting a stun is good - it costs your opponent any remaining actions in the round, and denies them a long action and allows them only one normal action in the next round. But a stunned character isn't helpless. He can move, parry, dodge, back away, or attack and rely on a reaction parry (a...

In my experience, Mr Edwards' "bitterest roleplayer" tends to be the guy who shifts pretty readily between thinking in- and out-of-character, engaging both the rules and the game-world. In that sense they're among my favorite players to have in a game. Combat in FB is very gamist, but it's...

Thank you for saving me the trouble of crafting a reply. :)

I have an Obsidian Portal wiki fo my Flashing Blades campaign and I'm very, very happy with it. The ability to hyperlink everything together, connecting people, places, organizations, and events, is a big help for me in running a sandbox setting. I can tell at a glance who an npc's friends and...

Not necessarily, as Nagol points out. Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance. Speaking as a former park ranger who worked on black bear management in a national park, these are spot on.

My caves tend to be filled with petroglyphs and pictographs, none more so than the witch doctor's cave - those pictures painted on the walls or scratched in the varnish are their spell books. Graffiti get scrawled or (less frequently) chiseled into stone walls, particularly in prisoners' cells...

"I'm a meteor swarm layin' mother-:):):):)er, mother :):):):)er!"

I'm told by players past that one of my more memorable encounters was a pair of goblins, one of whom pissed himself and fainted immediately on seeing the adventurers while the other ran away, straight into a trapped door, and died. Once they roused the fainted goblin, he became their window...

It's times like this I really miss the XP button.

The OSR's got this covered already. Yes, please. DDI could be the real umbrella under which disparate gamers cluster, not another edition.

The grass is always greener in someone else's hydroponic garden. I do find the whole thing terribly funny, though. With all of the different vesions of D&D out there - OD&D, Holmes D&D, 1e AD&D, Moldvay D&D, Mentzer BECMI D&D, 2e AD&D, 3e D&D, 3.5e D&D, 4e D&D, plus all of the OGL derivatives...

The Dance of Steel, my Flashing Blades campaign, going strong for over a year now.

That's one product that Whizbros could sell me. I'd buy a copy of that in a heartbeat.

"Honest?" We have different ideas about what defines honest discourse, but telling people, 'U r duing it rawng,' then admitting you don't really know what you're talking about, doesn't strike me as a particularly forthright way of contributing to a conversation. My question is on point, by the...

You can answer the question, 'Is Pathfinder D&D?' but you can't answer the question, 'Is Castles and Crusades also D&D?' I find that puzzling. And then again, I don't.

Why can't you answer the question with the same directness with which you decalre Pathfinder to be D&D? So far, every time I've asked you a direct question, you respond with, 'Well it could be this, or this, or this, depending on yadda-yadda-yadda.' But you don't seem to have anything...