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More or less in agreement here, though I also think the system would also be improved by adding in Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral, if the designers didn't want to ditch Law and Chaos entirely. I like the way that alignment is more or less optional, with only one mechanic utilizing it, but...

Dragonborn, dragonborn, goodness gracious, the dragonborn. Elves, dwarves, all that? Relatively generic fantasy characters - which is a good thing. I prefer D&D with a relatively lowkey, generic starting point. Better to build up from there. Then there are the dragonborn. Nothing subtle...

Alignment, too rigid? Not really, no. It seems the problems are twofold: 1) People forget that alignment is a tendency, not an always, never deviate away from sort of thing. Except with the paladin and equivalent classes, of course. Otherwise, though, "Lawful Good" just means more lawful and...

It still stands that if the opposition wants to make sure a PC is dead, the way they're going to do it isn't by checking for a pulse or to see if they're breathing. It's by taking a dagger and shoving it through their eye. So it's a moot point, anyway - if an opponent is dubious enough to...

3.5 for the foreseeable future, though I may look into Pathfinder. Until 4th edition opens up a few more options, via classes and the like, I'm not sure it interests me all that much. And while I'd say it's about as significant a departure from 3rd edition as 3rd edition was from 2nd, that...

How do the players know the same when they shove a healing potion down the character's throat? Not to mention that the opponents certainly can see what sorts of wounds have been inflicted - and a potentially fatal, probably can be cured sort of wound will likely look different from a wound that...

Predators attempt to draw off the weak and don't stop to eat when someone is attacking them. No predatory animal should ever stop to eat in the middle of combat. By that same token, most predators leave their game behind if they face resistance. If it can be easily carried, a predator will do...

The love story is pretty easy to follow. And, ultimately, kids don't need to "get it." All they need to be is entertained. This has a little more substance. But it's anecdotal. From what I've heard from at least one parent, his six year old enjoyed it. So experiences vary. And the general...

I have to say that "A Death in the Family" is the furthest thing from a must-read. It's a steaming pile of drek, as far as the story goes. Not because the story killed Jason Todd - far from it. It's just a poorly written, not particularly logical story. All that anyone needs to know is that...

As I'm playing a Warlord right now in my 4th edition game, I have to say it's very satisfying. One of the highlights of last game was the whole party feeling pretty sure our Ranger was about to die - up until I charged one of the minions that just came bursting out, then followed by getting the...

The antagonist in the campaign I'm running will likely destroy the world if he's successful in his plans, but it's not actually his goal. In this case, his reason for destroying the world is simply that he's blinded by hubris. He's the high priest of a dead god intent on resurrecting said...

Is there any particular reason Pierce isn't involved in the movie? I understand an actor not being able to film due to other projects, but voice work seems like one of those things that doesn't interfere overly much with other work.

Batman, Batman, Batman!!! Glee! My nerdy little comic fanboy self is all a-twitter over the Dark Knight finally coming out. I've been waiting for it since...I finished watching Batman Begins for the first time. And the trailers look oh so sweet. I'm awaiting it with quite a degree of...

I like tieflings and detest dragonborn, but with a caveat: I really, really hate the 4th edition approach to tieflings. They all have horns, they all have tails, they all look like a bunch of demonic dudes? Umm, no, no sir. Don't like it. I liked it when they could very well fit in with...

No, it doesn't suspend my suspension of disbelief in the slightest. Someone used a baseball analogy - sometimes a player hits more than one home run in a game. All right, fine. How many games go by where the player doesn't hit any home runs at all? He still hits, but the ball doesn't go out...

This is the same Lore who used to write regularly for the Brunching Shuttlecocks when it was still extant, so I'm sure it's done with love. I suggest doing a search for Lore's "Kitchen Floor" cartoon. I'd link to it, but the language is a bit salty. Suffice to say: Depleted uranium beholder.

The various races all have something sexy going for them. 7 squares of elven movement? Eladrin can teleport? Tieflings are just nifty in and of themselves. Humans, meanwhile, just don't. They are vanilla. They don't have anything that really defines them other than a number of options that...

As was mentioned upthread, if no PCs are involved, it doesn't matter too much, anyway. And if PCs are involved, chances are they aren't taking hundreds of attack rolls at once, anyway. What I did for my Mutants & Masterminds game when it involved 120 minions was just to split the minions up...

The classes I mentioned aren't bad for a human now - which is the point. But if they were put into a niche, they could be. As for the human Cleric or Paladin? Well, perhaps. Only getting one ability at +2 does seem a bit of a burden, at least when it comes to classes that benefit from a few...

The first session was a bit shaky. We were constantly referencing books to check up on our powers and a few of us changed our powers around mid-session as we figured out what did and didn't suit us. The second session, though? Fantastic. We had a solid grasp on the rules, our characters were...