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Evil characters do not fit in with the types of campaigns I want to run. I want the characters to be heros, dedicating to making the world better than they found it. I expect them to help the peasants if they run across someone burning peasant farmers out of their homes, not join in on the...

The newer editions may have changed this, but when I played GURPS, I found combat to be boring and repetitive. Once we'd been playing for awhile, it was too easy for me to kill the bad guys, and too hard for them to hurt me. The magic system was very restrictive, with powers building upon each...

GURPS is an intriguing idea that didn't work well for me in play. I was in a campaign for a year or so, and while we had some fun in the game, I personally preferred other systems' mechanics. Everything about GURPS *sounds* good in theory, but I found actual play to be disappointing. 3d6...

Like connecting the Kitchen to the Study, or the Conservatory to the Lounge. :D

Those are amazing!

I can understand WotC not wanting to allow wholesale republication of their critters from the MM, but not including the statblocks in a module is a hassle for a GM. We want the stats to be right there, because putting slips of paper in the MM and flipping back and forth between different...

I didn't find anything about this on a search of ENWorld so figured I had to post it. Apologies if it's old news. From the Christies auction house: A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE PRICE REALIZED $17,925 A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE Circa 2nd Century A.D. Deep blue-green in color, the large...

Secondary skills, but I'll be adding them as I don't care too much about numbers, just background info.

My gift set was also delayed, but has since shipped and I should be receiving the books today. Amazon didn't have enough of the gift sets to fill all the pre-orders for them, but they do have the individual volumes. If you reorder those, you will probably get them in a day or two with the...

I don't think it's wrong to try to gently persuade your reluctant DM that 4E is not the coming of the anti-Christ. However the best way to do that is likely to include him as a player in a limited duration test of the game. Run one adventure, over the course of a few game sessions. Make it...

The books I can see, but mercenary DM'ing? That's a new one. Quite an audacious idea actually. I can envision the bill now. For services rendered: Pre-game preparation time: 4 hours @ $5 / hour = $20 Travel 15 miles @ 40 cents / mile: $6 DM supplies (Mountain Dew, Cheetos, minis) ...

Not all of us have the benefit of your experience with those systems. I never played with Ars Magica or Eberron. WoW was the first game *I* played that included the concept of disenchanting, and until 4E, I had never heard of it being used in another game. To me, DE'ing items is straight out...

There's no reason to try running WoW on it, as WoW is fully Mac compatible. All the copies of the game come with both versions of the client. I suppose it would be interesting to see if you get better WoW performance running in BootCamp on an Intel Mac compared to running it under OSX, but...

Now let's not bicker and argue about who killed who and stole their stuff. WoW and D&D have a loving relationship going back many years. WoW was born from D&D, and as children often do, grew beyond the expectations of its parents. Years later, we see D&D borrowing clothes out of WoW's closet...

Amazon is now listing availability for the D&D Gift Set as June 16th, and says "We thought you should know that we're experiencing a delay with your order. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please take note of the revised shipping and delivery estimates marked in red below." regarding my...

The card looks great. Careful only has one "L", not two. So was this done with the MtG card creator then? I also haven't read the entire thread as it's *huge*.

Beg WotC to do a free supplement including the tables that we can print out and stick to the inside of our current screens temporarily? Although I don't see that happening as it might discourage people from buying to real product when it comes out in July. I guess you use some judicious...

I disagree. The grid is there as a tactical aid to give us some idea of how far people are moving on their turns and where they are standing relative to one another and to important terrain features. With hexes the rules for flanking are clear (more so than for squares). Flanking on a...

I haven't started WotBS yet, but I like the story from the parts of it I've read so far. I haven't picked up the last few modules yet. I wanted to convert the whole thing over to 4E and have it become the basis for our next campaign. It will take some time to do obviously, as there are a...

I skipped straight from 1st Edition to Rolemaster, and then to 3E without pausing for more than a single game session of D&D 2E. Is it possible to do a few sentence summary of how the secondary skills rules worked in 2E? I was thinking of grafting on some fairly informal rules for secondary...