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Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect there is more than one way to get up a mountain. You don't have to climb it. It's like combat, I may write a combat scenario up, but the players don't necessarily fight NPCs. It's the same thing with skill challenges, just because I prepare a skill challenge...

I would also recommend A Hard Day's Night, Almost Famous, and Head. After you've done that, maybe you can try explain Head to the rest of us.

If you're going to run, you might as well throw-up a DM screen to act as a speed bump while the group chases you. I own the old screen to. And the one from the DM's kit. Of course, I kinda collect them. I have one from one the Planescape boxed sets (probably the original) that's pure awesome. I...

Generally speaking, I like the idea that my NPCs do things I wouldn't do. In fact, I like the idea that they might do things that I think they wouldn't do. Unlike a PC, who's every action is filtered through the player's "would my character do this?" prism, NPCs provide a chance for characters...

Thanks for the answer.

I voted for Kara-Tur and Mystara. Kara-Tur because it hasn't been touched since 2e. (Except for the one dragon magazine, IIRC.) 4e needs an oriental setting and it needs oriental flavored classes. That's it's been over 2 and 1/2 years and they haven't published a 4e OA seems a little weird to...

You and I have very different definitions for force. I do not believe that designing an encounter to be very difficult and having NPCs outright say as much is forcing. I realize that some players equate being told not to do something is a hint that it should be done, but I want to point out that...

Man, you really plan ahead.

Interesting. Last time this subject came up, I seem to remember people saying that Silverlight basically prints using images. (I.e., the limitation was a Silverlight issue.)

I don't know about the OP, but I've always wanted to run a campaign set in the Star Trek universe. The idea I've always wanted to do is this: the PCs are ensigns assigned to the pre-com U.S.S. Sovereign. It has a skeleton crew and right now the highest ranking officer is a Lt. Commander. The...

I don't think that true. People like a variety of games and play styles. I like 4e and LUG's ICON system. I would like to point out that phasers have a "stun" setting. For some reason, Star Fleet officers seem to keep it there. I can't help but wonder if we've be watching the same shows. This...

AFAICT, no. Silverlight doesn't seem to allow this. Just one more feature sacrificed on the alter of online application.

Last Unicorn Games did, IIRC, three Start Trek Based games. One based on TNG, one on DS9, and one on the Original Series. While they all used the same system, each book was a self contained game with character gen, rules, and GM advice. While I have the TNG and DS9 books, plus an adventure, I...

I saw a drow just last Thursday in one of the study rooms.

When I started playing, I wasn't "deeply invested in fantasy or history." I had never read Tolkin. Medieval Europe held no interest to me. But I liked the play style. And I'm familiar with fantasy tropes, I just wasn't big into them. So, I people had to explain what an orc was. And a few other...

The reason their making excuses is because there are many people who want them to make excuses. There have been many, many, threads and posts where people complain that Wizards doesn't communicate enough. In fact, there was a post up thread that said "I applaud them for being frank about it...

No, I haven't thought of going over to Pathfinder. I've kept the 3.5 books I liked the most and I'm more than happy to play that game (or run it) if the mood strikes me and any potential victims. The reason is pretty simple, Pathfinder is to close to 3.5 for me to justify buying the game books...

Out of curiosity, what ebook readers have you looked at? I have a kindle. It came with two dictionaries, The Oxford Dictionary of English, and the Oxford American English Dictionary. Plus, I bought Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus. And the kindle is great...

True, but I'm not sure the solution to that is to replace it with another buggy and bloated tool. Here's what I've been wondering: the underlying character is just an XML file. (And it's making the OP's eyes bleed. Poor guy, you should know better than to open the Ark of the Covenant. ;) ) But...

Well, that's one way to solve your missing deadline problem: don't have deadlines! It's like they decided to model their online content release dates on the study habits of college undergrads. "eh...I still have another 20 hours before the paper's due...."