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I think the apparatus is largely necessary. I've read books without maps, or without quotes, or without dramatis personae indices, and I can say that maps are highly important. If I said "Then the followers split from the rest of the populace, and left Desolate Noon for Cathedra via the Shadow...

PS: I'm also 100% certain that I've seen a free adventure on the web dealing with rising flood waters. It was associated with some new devils or demons of low power, I can't remember the specifics and I can't find it in my stuff cache. Anyone else remember this? It was a year or two ago, I'm sure...

Druids would have a hard time doing worse than Nature here in Wellington (capitol of New Zealand, for those wondering about such things). You know why there's a city here? So many rift lines converge that the sea got in and made a harbour. Fortunately the city hasn't been destroyed since the...

Where are you at? I'm in Wellington, on a hill hence out of the way of the worst of the recent weather, but I haven't heard of any local evacuations in the past few days so I'll assume you're further north up the island. I haven't used any natural disasters in-game, although I have set an...

Yes. There's no shame in it. They're just sooo beautiful. That said, there are four kinds of dragon in my latest setting development project, and one of them is made of metal and wire and flesh, and rule a transcontinental empire via datalink implants. There's no reason I can't have both shiny...

Heck, the first thing I thought when I saw d20 Modern was 'Let's do a Bruce Willis movie!'. And you don't see too many sorcerers in those. Anyway, I don't think I have a problem with 'invalid science'. I've had a great deal of fun writing stories featuring completely bad science - there are men...

Once. It was essential to The Plot, though, and the player was quite impressed with the death. For those who read Dungeon Damage... try to guess who and why this occurred...

About a dozen or so big changes, I guess. I'll rule-of-thumb anything in sight, of course, but I count that as situational improvisation or world-building rather than specific house rules.

Two questions: 1) What sort of payscale are we talking? 2) What art style are we talking? I was considering drawing something up, but then I got caught between wanting to experiment with exaggerated, stereotypical, almost cartoony stuff, and dark, shadowy, noir style filled with menace and...

Why, you're all getting confused between Secret War and Secret Wars. I've read up on this in the past. They specifically dropped that 's' to avoid all this confusion! Silly people! It does look interesting - haven't picked it up, but the art is certainly cool, and Bendis is by no means an awful...

One: Go out and read some comics. Archetypes worthy of investigation (through libraries, preferably) include X-men, X-statix (tricky, but really gut-wrenchingly compelling if you can pull it off), Justice League, Powers (which has supers but is mostly about cops), Avengers, and bits of Batman...

In the world I'm working on right now (a setting for my Twilight game), a person's spirit is released upon death. What happens to it at that point? Well, it's free to be acted upon by the forces of the Universe. Normally, it would float around and eventually reincarnate, or vanish after an...

What else would he play on Angel? I noticed that on IMDB, actually, and now I just have to wait about 18 months until that episode screens here in New Zealand... then we can see who is truly the bestest vampire of them all. Heheh.

It seems there are some cases when dubbing is superior. Something that looks this lush is such a case. Also, whoah. Cool.

There's a place for both. Points are nice and simple to understand, and simulate modern fiction much better. Slots can do some really twisted stuff - metamagic is really only scratching the surface (and can be done with points anyway). I've got ideas, oh, have I got ideas... I think both of...

I liked the books; they're not particularly stereotypical. Which is good. They're a little distant in memory right now, honestly, but I don't remember thinking 'bleh', so go for it. (The cover art rocks, though, doesn't it? I love me some dragons...)

Well, I could walk up to the average man on the street, say, "Name three ways to kill a vampire" and then point out just how useless that information is in the real world... what sort of data would a native to a world where those things are real have? A sense of mystery is sometimes a good...

My parents bought me basic D&D, I taught myself from there. They had never played, although my mother had a d12 and my father's mother gave me an adventure module some years beforehand...

No, just convergent titles. Not unless the BotW film featured militant twenty-foot crystal-boned underdark-dwelling terraforming minions of evil called Reavers. I can certainly see how this story would make for good movies, though - endowments of attributes make for some incredible action...

And Kate Mulgrew, who really does have a voice suitable for a weird green elf queen. And, of course, Keith David as Goliath, who is very cool... and played Mary's stepfather in There's Something About Mary. (He also did the animated Spawn, and had a role in Fallout.) For some reason, I like E...