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Actually, that can just improve the game. All the more tension ;) Seriously, we've had people with diagnosed palsy of the hands play the game, and have a great time. And, man, you think your hands shake when you get nervous--you shoulda seen this guy, even when he was calm. But it worked just...

Well, i'd argue the Diana Jones Award is the most-prestigious award an RPG can get, but, yeah, the ENnies are right up there. Heck, the fact that a non-traditional, super-small-press, not-published-by-an-established-company, not-Forge-affiliated, RPG can get nominated has significantly upped my...

I've got no sympathy for you. Dread's up against Spycraft 2.0 and M&MM2. You know, the game that got me, a don't-like-espionage-genre don't-like-high-crunch-games gamer, dying to play crunchy spies; and the game that has Hero diehards switching to it for their supers gaming. I mean, we're...

I'm not convinced of that. At least, if people are really nominating and voting based on what they perceive as the best quality. Off the top of my head, i can't think of any 'best' products out of WotC in the last year. 'Good'? Yes, lots. 'Great'? a few. But nothing that just blows me away, or...

[i had a longer, more in-depth post here, but my webbrowser crashed, so the 2nd time around it's a bit briefer.] Actually, the only people who should really have a say in the awards are the fans & consumers. The publishers most definitely should not be making any of the decisions. It's...

Except that the Action! Core Rules is an OGL game. And clearly does not belong in that category. There's nothing that says that a game released using the WotC OGL has to be D20 System, but the reverse is definitely true. While you are legally obligated to make a big difference between games...

D20 System brand? nope. D20 System games? yep. M&MM uses a whole lot of stuff out of the D20 SRD. That makes it anything but "specifically and completely NOT d20 affiliated". It's very strongly affiliated. It just doesn't happen to bear the D20 System logo.

Oh, and for anyone who needs to be familiar with a game before they can vote for it, you can find an excerpt of the game which includes the entire rules chapter, as well as one of the sub-genre chapters, on our website (see my .sig). Also 4 complete, ready-to-play scenarios. One of those...

Unfortunately for you, but fortunately for the game, we've found it's not that easy. It's amazing how much wobblier the tower is when your character is on the line. I've seen groups that were terrified of touching the tower by the end of the game, and those same people then fearlessly pulled...

Unless what you loved about Dragon was that it was an RPG magazine, rather than a D&D magazine. Or the GMing advice articles. Or the high-fluff/low-crunch articles. A player-oriented, crunch-favoring, D&D-only magazine will most definitely disappoint me. If i'm mistaken about any of these...

Two specific situations that i think are generally seen as bad, rather than the general case you describe: Taking a penalty in an area that never gets used in the game in order to get a benefit in an area that gets used all the time. The wizard who takes a limitation that she can't wear armor...

How's the crunch/fluff ratio, these days? I notice that the articles i still go back to, to this day, are those that don't have a single rule or mechanic in them, or have very loose rules that fit into any game system (such as a couple of alternate alignment systems, like "For King and Country"...

I'd disagree with that--the 'lots of magic' part wasn't inherent until D&D3E. As evidenced by the fact that every game i actually played in during the 80s and 90s, as well as every one i had 2nd-hand knowledge of (i.e., knew the participants personally) had *way* less magic than D&D3e...

Can't answer a binary poll. It depends on so many factors. As a general rule, if the book was originally designed for print, and is not going to be altered for PDF, my answer would be 'no'. I use as my examples of this problem Arcana Evolved and the Star Trek RPG Mirror Universe supplement. In...

Nope, but my cousins live a few miles down the road from you, relatively speaking (Research Triangle area). And, yes, that was sarcasm on my part. In all seriousness, I was under the impression that while "y'all" was plural, it wasn't necessarily inclusive, while "all y'all" is necessarily...

I guess i'm not convinced that the posited apolitical nature of the origin of 'gender-neutral' male pronouns even matters--it seems to me that the meaning we bring to language is grounded in current use much more so than in etymology. Thus, if we culturally ascribe connotations to words, it...

No, no, everyone knows that "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural. :D

Maybe. Current politics certainly demonstrates ably the degree to which choice of language influences thinking (polls that show a larger %age of people supporting the right to abortion than identifying themselves as 'pro-choice' is the first example that comes to mind--there're lots of other...

I think the best way to do this is AC based on weapon types. A creature's AC already has at least 3 values (regular, touch, and flat-footed), you just further break it down into vs. slashing, vs. piercing, and vs. bludgeoning. So if someone attacks you with a longsword, you report your slashing...

My personal test? I've never heard a woman complain that 'she' was jarring, while i've heard plenty of men complain. This, to me, makes me think it's just shoe-on-the-other-foot syndrome, which, further, means that all the claims that 'he' is generic are bogus. IOW, every time 'generic' she...