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I just don't think all other things can be equal. My preference is for a quality product. The setting designers should feel free to use or exclude as much of what is available for use as they feel the setting warrants. If they want to include it all, and it works in the context of the setting...

I gotta agree that the OGL is really what made 3e the success that it was. I *really* like 90% of 4e, and I fully intend to keep buying it. I've always been pretty selective about what 3rd party products I buy anyway, but I definately get the point that a restrictive license affects more than...

Fire Balls, not fire discs.. er.. yeah, I do everything in 3 dimensions in cases where a target, intended or not, is in an area that would be affected by the spell.

The cards will have to be pretty good for that product to spark any interest in me. I make mine on the cheap. Mine are pretty basic, but they don't use a ton of ink and they print directly to blank index cards that I get for a couple of cents each. Others have managed some pretty professional...

I have a huge collection of Rifts books. I used to collect them just to read them. The lack of balance and the clumsy rules pretty much gauruntee I'll never run or play it, but the story is great. A very well done kitchen-sink setting. I only stopped collecting after seeing the way they ran shop...

I have a sizeable stash of minis myself. I'm currently only converting minis as needed. I prewrite most of my encounters, including potential random encounters, so I just put bases on whatever I might need for a given session. I didn't want to deal with the labor or cost of converting all of...

Invested in Alea Tools. I could have done something cheaper, like the pipe cleaners, and gotten the same result. I like 'game gear' so I spent the money. One session down and I'm mostly happy with them. I think I may not use all of the colors I got, but the ones I was using for bloodied, marked...

I'll get emails out this week to everyone who has replied. Sorry for the delay but work has been killing me. I'd love to grab lunch with some folks. I don't know any local gamers, so even if our schedules/needs don't match up, I'd still enjoy chatting about the hobby and maybe expanding my...

First. Very cool resource. I wish I had a better grasp of Excel. A lot of the proposed enhancements to the encounter generator portion sound like added value. I look forward to seeing what ultimately gets added. I basically did the same. I definately intend to use monsters from magazines and...

The style isn't my personal preference, but it certainly seems to be an actual style and it feels basically cohesive to me. Nice work. Keep plugging away.

My favorite (as I've mentioned before), though it isn't nearly as detailed as the cool maps others have listed, has always been the cloth map from the Drak Sun box set. I recently found mine again, and I'm going to frame it. I like it less for the quality of the map though, and more for the cool...

I wonder if my hand is steady enough for this. I got some Alea Tools counters (arriving soon I hope) and was thinking of doing a sheet metal backer for my battlemat. Then I found "magentic receptive" materials at a few different sites that have wet-erase-friendly vynil surfaces. If someone would...

Classic. I don't tend to meet gamers often. I wish I did. I'd kill for a local game. I've met a few former gamers though. My girlfriend's aunt used to game. It was pretty obvious given her interest in fantasy books/movies, but last christmas she gifted some old 1e D&D books and miniatures to...

I agree with Shroomy. It was a good article, but I expected the same level of coverage that we saw for Warforged. Flight has to be on the way given the dragonborn in the MM. I'm starting to think we might see a racial splat at some point too. I'd be less interested in that than the power source...

Neat! I'll have an eye on this, and I'll see if I have anything worth contributing. Definately a cool idea.

I'm still messing with the levels. I really like the idea of having Orcus and Zehir in conflict, and my heroes and their homeland caught in the middle. I think I can still get my aberration invasion in without needing to tie it into anything specifically. I'm not sure how my ancient and...

Well.. I have a couple of subplots already. One involves a dragon. A really old dragon. Either Orcus stole an artifact from the dragon and has left the local mortals to blame, or Zehir is trying to subvert Tiamat and gain a following among dragons. Not sure how this puts the dragon in the...

I totally get what the OP is saying, even though I myself really like 4e. It definately has done a lot for non-casters. I've been considering letting spells stay in spellbooks (no disapearing ink for me) and then let the wizard select any spell he wishes from his book using the level for each...

This would've been a blog post, but I think my chances of getting a response are still higher here in the forums for now. That or I just don't write very compelling blog posts. :) I may be overthinking things a bit, but I'm working out a rough outline for my first full 4e campaign. I'm trying...

So long as they stick to the 3 book (really 2 plus an adventure) scheme, I'll likely get them all. I'm a collector. I'm fine if a really good extra supplement comes out for a setting once in a blue moon, but it was my fear of constant supplement releases for settings that drove me to not buy the...