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That sounds cool. If our group had used your system, I would've been a lot happier. Your modified system has an important element of fairness. Tony M

I don't think they intended to burn me, but it still sucked asking for magic and seeing it go to other PCs who were already extremely powerful. One particularly glib player made it seem as if I was being selfish for even asking for items that obviously would be better in some other PC's hands...

I know what you're saying, Crothian. But based on my experience, it does not wash. I ran in a group that did "need over greed" and my plain ol' Fighter consistently got squat. Whenever I asked for an item, time and time again I'd hear, "Wouldn't it make more sense if it went to so-and-so?" A...

The apparently popular "need over greed" method irks me for three reasons. One: it is unfair. There will always be players fascile at using logic to gobble all the best magic items for their so-called "needy" PCs. Less fascile players will see their PCs carrying hand-me-down magic items...

I have a whole extra set I could sell you at $6 per issue. A few are new in plastic, and all are in like-new condition. I do the Zogonia strip in Dragon, and those are my contributor's copies. If you are a fan of my Zogonia strip, they are only $5 per issue (special fan discount!!). You pay...

Quoted for truth. To me, this thread is a bit surreal, because I would never bring these issues into a game. I don't want my players to think about what happens to baby monsters. That too real-world. I suppose, if I was asked by a player what happened to the orc children in the village, I...

Oh. That sounds cool. (I didn't read those books, btw.) Okay, here's what happens in Reality #2!... One of the orc babes that Darth Mikey's PC did not kill, grows up to be a powerful diplomat for the human race. In his lifetime he negotiates an unprecedented truce between the orcs and the...

If I'm understanding you and Ibram correctly, you both advocate letting 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old orcs live after killing their parents. Your reasons are: striking down weaker opponents rubs you the wrong way, and you can kill them when they're fully grown, if forced to. Those reasons make...

I'm as practical as the next guy when ridding the D&D world of evil monsters and their progeny, but if faced with the hypothetical situation quoted above, my PC would likely have pity on a lone orc baby. Which makes me wonder...would I also have pity if the young orc was 10 years old? And, if I...

Whoa whoa whoa. I'm all for murdering evil babies who can't defend themselves. But I draw the line at rape and torture. Killing evil babies is Lawful Good, if done properly. Rape and torture are terribly Evil. Tony M

When you are at war with evil monsters, the general rule (in my world) is they all get killed--regardless of age. However, I think killing younglings and the elderly is extremely unfun. Who wants to roleplay that? So the answer is: Kill the evil younglings and elderly, but make it fast, and...

Sources? Who is this eyebeams person? He said that he is the coauthor of two of the top 10 selling games over the past few years, but he neglected to identify himself. Tony M

Gosh, how am I supposed to know what's in WotC's warehouse? Personally, I don't see any conflict between 3.5 selling better than previous editions, and the current state of D&D only being "fine." The economy was a lot better-off when 3.5 came out, a lot of the sales could've happened then...

Several people clearly think Mearls painted a rosey, overly-awesome picture of the state of D&D when he said “D&D is doing fine,” and “D&D is trucking along fine.” But not me! If somebody asked me how my marriage was going and I said it was “trucking along fine,” I would expect the listener...

Maybe she was mostly mad that you had forgotten to run her PC. That would've annoyed me, I think. I'd be like, "What? Is my PC too lame for you to remember?" Maybe by tossing the ultimatum at you, she was giving you an opportunity to evict her and her lame PC from your game. I'm surprised...

ALL about the cash? I'm sure cash is a major concern of the Hasbro accountants and their ilk, but when a new D&D book is released, anyone saying it's ALL about the cash is not taking into consideration the people involved in creating the books. Those people who actually create the books love...

Another "when WotC releases 4E" post by Rasyr. Whee. I make the intuitive leap from A to E and declare that Rasyr's OGL-shunning RPG would have sold better in a universe without the OGL. I love the OGL!! Total Success!! :) Tony M

Sahuagin. The PCs were on a ship and were attacked by numerous sahuagin, who boarded the ship from all sides. During the battle, my character was pinned to the mast with a trident, and died. After the sahuagin had fled our ship, the surviving PCs threw my dead PC overboard. "He's dead."...

ACK! Don’t be hasty. If I was boss of Paizo, yeh, I’d stop sending replacements after sending 2 per year. But that’s only because Paizo has a computer print their labels from a database, and that technology seems pretty foolproof. (Sure, the sheets of label paper could be loaded upside-down...

Between four to six of your issues are lost per year? What really surprises me about this thread is that a company *would* be so generous to send-out 4-6 replacement copies. I would've guessed that any magazine-company would assume I was scamming them and selling the extra copies after the 2nd...