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When the other side Broyles' corpse was sent over, that was the point. There had to be some kind of a mass exchange with the method they were using. Since the real Olivia and the other side Olivia are about the same mass, you can exchange them. (Though if I were doing it, I might send some...

And perhaps the person with the most changed situation is other-side Colonel Phillip Broyles. It's going to be interesting to see what changes for various people if Peter starts coming back.

The buffer of online communication can really alter the interaction and the scale of time. I have a friend who we recently realized it had been nearly a year since we'd e-mailed back and forth. I'd been reading his blog, so somewhere in my mind I didn't really realize there'd been no e-mail...

In general, I am not in favor of the players having no knowledge of the rules whatsoever. It makes it very difficult to play the game when you have no idea of what your character can do. The line I've quoted above is the one that would destroy any such game, in my opinion. Players are likely...

GMed: Cortex (one shot), Mutants & Masterminds, Shadowrun (modified for a post-apoc setting), and now starting Pathfinder. Played: Nothing. (I did create a character for Exalted, but the game collapsed before I could start.) I generally run at least one or two different game systems in a year...

I rather like this idea. To me, the existence most dungeons really make no sense. Some are designed such that they don't totally destroy suspension of disbelief, but the presence of many of them is absolutely ludicrous. The two creation sources listed above give a decent explanation for why...

* Prophecy is notoriously vague. Use that to your advantage. "As we can see from the additional signs we have received, Joe is also among the chosen." * Just because you're chosen doesn't mean you WILL succeed, just that you're one of the few who has a chance. There could be many chosen...

I had an entire adventure derail because apparently my setup was similar to a movie someone had seen recently, the assumed I had seen the same movie, and the entire party decided that this must be what is really going on and went with it. Sadly, more than once I've had someone's "accurate...

While some groups might find this quite interesting, I have to say that it is a RPG rule system that I would never GM and probably wouldn't want to play. Issues of balancing multiple system types against each other aside, this system would be a nightmare for the GM just based on the rules...

Perhaps it's a case of different gamers, but I've had numerous people in my groups over the years who could not handle rolling multiple dice for damage. Anything more than two dice and they were overwhelmed. Frankly, I've known a lot of players who couldn't calculate their own base bonuses and...

I think you are better off with a flat modifier than an additional die for one simple reason: Each additional die increases the amount of time you have to spend on each action and so lowers the "fun" of the game. While some of us can glance at a handful of rolled dice and process them, many...

Actually, they already posted them over on the Minecraft forum. If you do a Google search, basically this same spam post is showing up on a variety of forums.

Assuming D&D type scale, all you really need is a die code (d4, d6, d8, d10, 2d6), whether it's 1h or 2h, and whether it's melee or ranged. Honestly, anything that isn't a vital mechanical difference is just fluff and you don't really need it. I've seen games where all weapons were the same...

I have experimented with Daz3D and Poser in the past for creating images for use in gaming (like portraits of NPCs). I don't think it would work as a VTT considering how slowly they run. Every time you want to add an object to the scene, there is a long wait time (not to mention the insane...

Thank you. I am going to take a look at both of those and see how they could be adapted to scenery and miniatures. If anyone else has any suggestions, please post them.

Lately I've been playing a number of games like Torchlight, Titan Quest, Overlord, and Age of Empires. These are all top-down games with fairly simple world/dungeon maps. As I play them, I wonder why there isn't a tool like that for a GM to use to create a game on the fly. I know the original...

In a way, Amber does this since it is entirely diceless. The GM makes the decision on whether something works based on comparing your traits to the opponent's traits, with modification for things like situation, conditions, and good roleplay. However, I believe the only way this can work is...

At the center of Vecna's throne room (or library or candle-lit vault) is a dimly glowing spherical object of brass and copper. Closer inspection reveals thousands of facets, each inscribed with runes, letters, or number. To get at Vecna's truth, and therefore be able to kill him, the layers of...

I remember the scene at the hospital with Leonard Nimoy when they were going to rescue Walter. The random guy at the front of the line was talking to the nurse doing the checking-in and she was asking him "How big were the bees?" and she had a chart to use for size comparison. That just says...

I think that forcing the players into one of them sacrificing their character for the greater good is generally a bad way to go unless you've been leading up to this for quite some time. (As in everyone knows this will ultimately be required because someone has to throw themselves into Mount...