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My advice? Leave. If you don't want to leave, I have another solution, but it's a bit risky and should be played subtly. Ask her for help. Ask her for help in game and out of game. Make it simple, make it plausible. I suspect that it's possible you have something in common with her, find out...

I started with Omega World, which was the best of the Polyhedron mini-games. In fact, I bought multiple copies of the magazine and the pdf of it, just so I could have additional copies of the random PC generation tables for people to use. At one point, I owned the Alternity version of GW, but...

Sorry to nitpick, but while many games stores do sell individual cards.... ...I know for a fact this isn't true. I've been to game stores where M:TG hasn't been sold individually since the 90s, even though they still sell the random booster packs.

That's because it's a tough question. Consider this: Randall Munroe wanted to do a survey about what people named colors. A friend of his, Elizabeth, wanted some data on chromosomes because she's color blind (which is rare for woman because the color blindness gene is 1) recessive, and 2) on the...

Yes, they do. I remember, way back in the days of 3e before 3.5, someone said they didn't allow Prestige Classes. That person was dog piled on fairly quickly. I think you've just described 90% of the arguments I have with my players.

I like Gnomes. Not enough to play one, but at least the people who do play Gnomes do not play them like Kender the way halfling players do. (Most common last words prior to halfling PC death: "Oooooh! Shiny!" They were made a player race in PHB2? If your not kidding, and I suspect that you are...

Actually, that's the way it was in the play test Barbarian they put out about a year prior to the release of PHB 2. In the final product, Barbarians do indeed get Rage Strike at 5th level, not first. (PHB 2, pg 49 and 50) IIRC, one of the minor complaints about the play test version was "why...

Fortune Cards are just a supplement in booster pack form. I ignored Tomb of Magic in 3.5, I can ignore these. I'm certainly not going to let the existence of a supplement spoil my enjoyment of D&D. That said, I have a wacky idea: if Wizards wants to add a supplement to the game that has a...

I'm fine with it. It's been my experience that people play their PC's gender about as well as they play their race.

I suspect that part of that comes from the existence of GW stores. You know, I think they tried that once. I saw some disguised as a hedge in front of a friend's house a while back.

I think frequency has something to do with it. Wizards just keeps cranking out new editions of Magic. By contrast, they've only put out 2.5 editions of D&D. Every one of them was a big event. Admittedly, they haven't owned D&D as long as Magic's been around, but Magic has had far more than 2.5...

First, let's get something straight. Wizards did indeed release a d20 SRD for 3.5. It had to. The 3.5 PHB has a copyright notice explicitly stating that there is no Open Gaming Content in the book. It was in all of Wizards 3.5 D&D books, except two that I know of. Generally, this was Wizard's...

Well, I don't know how long they've been getting away with new editions, but Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40,000 are on their 8th and 5th editions respectively. I don't play, but I have friends that do, and every time a new edition comes out, I've never heard any of them complain...

I gotta say, 3.5 was the dumbest name they could have come-up with. I remember when they announced it in Dragon, everyone was like "3.5? Really?" What was wrong with 3e Revised?

Frankly, I'm not sure it matters what we call it, within reason. I'm not suggesting that's ok to call D&D Essentials a sandwich. Seriously, isn't AD&D 1e really just D&D 2e? (I've actually met people who called it that. Every time one of my early 3e DMs he talked about his old campaigns, he...

I'm pathetic. When I read your post, my first thought was "They must be mine." I'm since recovered. Anyways, after I get this, I may stop bringing my DMGs to the game for ref. The biggest thing I use them for is DC (with I know the kit has) and hit points for monsters/npcs. When I de-level a...

You know, now that I'm thinking about it, I collect DM screens as well. I can't explain the fact that I own the 3e, 3.5, 3.5 from Dragon/Dungon, FR, Eberron, 3.0 Ravenloft, d20 Modern (o.k., I can explain that one, it came with the 3.5, IIRC), Planescape (came with one of the box sets, it's...

The schizophrenic marketing probably comes from the fact that while most other companies can put out newly updated products frequently with minimum complaints, Wizards can't do that with D&D. Ford can do it. Games Workshop can do it. Wizards can do it with Magic. When Wizards bought TSR, they...

This week's ampersand cover's what I'm most looking forward to from Essentials. Based on the product description, I suspected that the RC had more info on it than the 3.5 RC. Or, at least, different info. A lot of the buzz on Essentials is with the new and updated classes, but what I'm most...

I like the skill challenge system. I was indifferent to them until I participated in the one from the MMII game day adventure. Then I ran the one in H2. After that, I've always enjoyed them. I like them for two reasons: 1) they match the way I was already handling some in-game actions, and 2)...