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Knighthood for me has varied by the needs of the campaign. Sometimes it was an appointment by the king and had the weight of Umbran's "tin star." You could basically tell people to do some stuff and they are likely to listen because you are an authority. Other times it was admission to a...

I tend to agree (both about Monte's intention and the result). My rant on the topic includes in pertinent part... I actually think the underlying topic of today's L&L is one of the most important they've touched on so far. The basic trade off between what should we rely on the DM to resolve and...

The problem with reviews is, in my opinion, two fold. First is that there is no mechanism to motivate a reviewer to be critical or careful with their opinion. It isn't like professional reviewers where their reputation follows them around and has to be protected. Second, most people who review...

My last campaign world involved an idea that all magic derived from a force (think The Force) but that it had an agenda that no one was aware of. As a result, too much magic at too early a level or too long steeped in magic led to insanity. I created a "magic score" which had the effect of...

Well, there's no reason that the narrative attributes like "stout" have to port over. If I want the ability bundle of dwarf but the description of a 6-foot-6 desert nomad, that really doesn't break the game. It certainly distorts the traditional flavor of the dwarf, but if the game was balanced...

Laggy, laggy double post.

I think the answer varies a lot depending on the goal of races in your game (or for the player making the decision). For example, I've encountered many players throughout the years who wanted to play "weird stuff." If all they could play was human, then they were going to have some weird genetic...

This has been by far the most educated thread jack I've ever read. Congrats.

Healing is a problematic issue in RPGs (in my opinion) because we insist on blurring the narrative and mechanical aspects. There are a great many narrative events that we don't presume should have a mechanical impact. There aren't hard coded rules for getting drunk, if you are hungry and eat you...

Sitting brings with it problems other than just caloric burn since we really aren't designed to sit for long periods of time. Sitting changes the distribution of weight to affect your breathing and tends to pinch arteries, both of which are actually fairly problematic. Many people also report...

I guess what I meant is that the show has a premise (society resets in 85 million BC) and the episode has a plot (society with tech loses tech). The plots of the episodes so far feel very "filler," that sort of midseason plot where you don't want to shake things up too much but you need...

That's actually an interesting perspective. Where I think you're going is that it is simply a transfer of resources. The rogue does a bit less now and uses those resources later with the wizard having the reverse experience. I see two problems. The first is that different classes have different...

You could do something where each of the books shares the same image and in the margin are strange lines. It turns out that the lines are pieces of letters such that if you overlay the lines on top of each other you can read the message. This tends to work best if you use graph paper and write...

I think this is a good point and easily illustrated with the aid of the video game market (appropriate given the articles GreyLord used for this post). The video game market polarized around PS3 and 360 despite being very similar systems with similar functionality. They have a few differences to...

Obviously these articles have all been conceptual so it has to come with a big grain of salt, but if we presume perfect execution it sounds like a great idea. Of course, perfect execution is improbable and so problems will creep in. The first problem I see is that I can't imagine a way for this...

[Really minor spoilers for Terra Nova and Walking Dead] This episode of Terra Nova really encapsulates my gripe with a lot of television shows right now. The shows are built around really strong premises, but the premise only casually informs the plot of the episode or only crops up when...

I checked and just plain "Aero" is available. If possible, I'd appreciate it if you could truncate the username. I created this as an alt_login some 8 years ago to post a thread without it catching my players' eye and it just ended up becoming my main login. I can only assume I meant for "Dm" to...

Maybe they could get that company that used to do the magazines to write some stuff for them. It seemed pretty popular back then. :)

Litterbox is perhaps the best new (at least to me) gaming term I've heard in months. The worst I've ever played in was a GM who dropped us on an island and proceeded to explain that the island was divided into zones by level of difficulty and we could challenge ourselves however we wanted...

Is there any way to change an account name?