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Sure, and if all of our GMs had always been adults, that's probably the word we'd have used. Put another way, almost all of my GMs have been "male," but a significantly lower percentage have been "men."

True, but Eberron goes out of its way to make the line as blurry as possible. In baseline D&D, you could reasonably start with the assumption that a black dragon was evil; in Eberron you can't. I do disagree with another post upthread about alignment. Eberron doesn't invalidate alignment; a...

It's not necessary to do it soon, it's only necessary to do it soon enough. In fact, it's conceivable that by waiting as long as possible, WotC was being considerate toward CrystalKeep and the gamers who used it. For instance, if you assume a five-year period of infringement is required before...

The OP mentions both "setting" and "game," so I'm not sure which he actually means. If "game," there's no reason Mutants & Masterminds won't work. Defining focus is as simple as limiting descriptors of power sources. "Okay, guys, you need to build heroes that are tech-based, mutation-based...

In 25 GenCons, I've never had a female DM for D&D (or PFRPG, as of GC2010). I've had lots of female GMs in games like Shadowrun, Buffy, and Amber, though. In local play, since I started regularly RPing '84, I've had only one female DM. She was a conundrum ... super-prepared with impressive...

I know I could research, but I'm lazy: What's the story on SK not running M&M any longer?

Shackled City took us about three years. Same for Age of Worms. Our SWSE campaign died early, after maybe three months. 3.5 Night Below campaign went over three years, but I'm not sure how long exactly. My M&M campaign is struggling due to non-overlapping cancellations, but I think it will...

That's my favorite OotS strip in memory. (I was gonna say "recent memory," but the adjective is extraneous. (As was this parenthetical. (As was that paren -- screw this.)))

Why 13? Go really creative and stick with a 10. I mean, heck, a 20th level wizard would still have 40 spells! Jeff P.S. And that's a lot of prestidigitations!

First, a d20 is not big enough to disguise a +1, as Nifft pointed out. Second, ironically, what actually provides the best camouflage in d20 games is the non-random ... the other modifiers, which stack up very high, pretty fast. Third, the original claim wasn't about a +1 ... it was about a...

Which example in each of these pairs is the "random" example? Given that I can exercise my creativity to choose any of these, how is that less creative than allowing the dice to choose for me?

I don't quite get how randomizing something -- in other words, leaving critical facets of my character's abilities to chance, rather than to me -- is somehow more imagination-involving, rather than less. If I randomize my gender, height, weight, age, class, weapons, spells, and so on, does it...

BTW, somebody upthread suggested a hybrid system of giving an 18 and a 16, and rolling 3d6, in order, for everything else. I like that concept a lot, and I suggested a variant to a potential Pathfinder GM: A 17 and a 15, placed as desired, then 4d6, 3d6, 3d6, and 3d6 assigned (before rolling)...

Thank you! Sometimes a dude just wants a sympathetic grip on the shoulder, you know? Jeff P.S. And a shot of bourbon. And a super-model girlfriend. (Holding another shot of bourbon.)

Yeah, that's an illustration. I didn't think it would help, as I said. Regardless, you're incorrect. Plus-or-minus 5 is hugely significant on a d20 roll, even given the high modifiers that eventually become the norm in a d20 game. I'm not sure what you're thinking when you say...

No, but with even 15-point-buy it was doable. Yeah, I am. No, and I likely won't, for several reasons. (1) It's an online game, with folks I don't know at all, much less well. (2) If I were going to object to random-roll, the time to do that was before I rolled, not after. (3) IME, GMs who...

Not for a feat-starved tiefling sorcerer. All the 13s and 9s are good for is absorbing an extra point of ability damage. If they were literally one point worse, under 3.5 they'd be an automatic reroll. Tiefling sorcerer, Chelish ex-pat, LG charmer. My mistake was in setting my heart on a...

This is so wrong I'm not even sure what could possibly be said to illustrate its wrongness to someone who believes it. The average d20 roll is 10.5. The idea that there is no "mathematically significant" difference between 5.5 and 10.5, or 10.5 and 15.5, or 19.5 and 24.5 is ... very, very...

I'm on-record in many threads about hating rolling for stats. It's true that in this case my enthusiasm wouldn't have been so severely dampened if I'd rolled half-decent scores, but I'm against random ability scores, regardless. (I recognize the one good argument in favor of random rolls...

Pathfinder game, I rolled what would be 11 points in point-buy. Everyone else rolled between 15 and 20 points, except the guy who rolled about 28 points. I went from feeling enthusiastic to feeling like my character might as well be named The Gimp.