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That thing's jaw is screwed up. It is otherwise a very nice picture.

52. It's not Mac compatible. Seriously, you put a 4e book in a room with a Mac, the book catches on fire. I don't know how they could possibly make a book do that but WOTC insisted that checking Mac compatibility was too expensive. Seems a little extreme to me but I guess that is the reality...

Yeah definitely. The software end of things is what I am most suspicious of when it comes to this whole 4th edition business. I mean, maybe if Google had bought them (for some hilarious reason)... I don't know. (reads) Oh, god, they're using DirectX rendering for their online character...

In my setting there are technologically advanced island city-states that have various forms of republican-to-oligarchic government and various forms of indentured servitude, which by centuries-long tradition lasts ten years. The more corrupt of these city-states have far more rapacious and...

Gods, I'd just be happy if the game could run a decent chase scene.

Man, nothing is necessary. I suppose if you are running long storyline campaigns, periodic permanent PC death is hard to swallow, it's like having the cast of a sitcom rotate twice over the course of its run. In an episodic campaign without a total overarching narrative that kind of...

I dunno what extra skill points are either. Rogues and bards, for all their skills, can always open up a sideline if they've got their main shtick covered; with fighters, it's just great to have a noncombat skill worth a little something; and wizards can always learn to ride a horse or carry a...

If we're talking any RPGs, five years. Just tabletop RPGs, eight years. Twice. I haven't actually played tabletop RPGs all that consistently. Completely skipped 2nd edition, for example.

The Sentence. "The cultists found my Sentence... harsh." Or, if he were a TWFer, he could have a hammer called "The Judge" and an axe called "The Jury." "You have been tried by a jury of your peers!" I'd better stop, I'll drown myself in cheese.

Well... in the Renaissance-era core of my setting, airships (Zeppelin-style, not Eberron-elemental style) have just come online. They aren't very fast, there's maybe four of them in all so far, and they can't carry a whole lot, but they're dead secure from current pirates. Construct technology...

Hmm, I've developed to varying degrees a variety of barbarian cultures, but the more technologically-backwards of them are pretty well removed from the Renaissance-era center of the setting. The two prominent sources, a seafaring, plundering, horse-archering Central Asian culture and a...

I dunno, Quivering Palm delivered via slap or noogie kind of goes against the flavor of that kind of (dim-mak death touch/ Vulcan nerve pinch/ five point palm exploding heart) secret spooky touch of death kind of power. A touch spell, I don't see why you couldn't deliver the touch with some...

I have it work with the related languages in my setting so, speaking across a partial language barrier, you can sort of make out what they're saying and communicate, but you can't use any social skills in the conversation, or (if you're feeling kinder, or the dialects are fairly close) you do at...

I just looked at the language spells, with an eye towards duration-nerfing them instead of level-fiddling them, but they only last 10 minutes per level, so even with a 20th-level mage you're looking at universal fluency for the duration of a long meeting or a bad party. But so make them 1...

Aw, come on, hirelings make excellent redshirts! "Oh, so that's what the purple thing does. It sucks out your brain with his tentacles. Thanks, Elfingston! Your sacrifice will be long remembered." Plus, wouldn't you rather the enemy mage dump a fireball on you and your band of pikemen...

For reals. Seriously, you don't have to do half the stretching to make a D&D cartoon these days as you would have in the '80s. It's in the culture now. A character of each class or so, shifting allegiances, kewl weapons (here is where I would want a spiked chain fighter), some recurring scary...

Yeah, it's more realistic to have multiple ranks denoting language fluency – it's at least as hard as any other skill in the game – but if characters are going to be travelling a lot and you don't have a common language and Speak Language is, as in the SRD, a cross-class skill for most, then the...

There's a lot that could be said about issues of representation, the effects of color vs. black-and-white, production values, composition, unity of composition vs. profusion of details, but I don't even know where to start right now and it's just going to give me a headache anyway so screw it...

That is what the gods made non-lethal damage for. "Upon seeing your swooping approach, the black knight snorts, sticks the point of his greatsword into the ground, removes his gauntlets, and meets you with a barrage of fists." *roll, roll, roll* "Everything goes red, and then dark." Repeat as...

Retraining feat prereqs? Ooogh.